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     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.202.203 |
I've only seen a couple of Mr Rollin's films but while they were quite often patchy they also had some of the strongest images I've seen in any fantasy film, and linger in my memory like real events, or at the very least events from my own dreams. Any thoughts? Cross of Iron was the best of the ones I saw, with Living Dead Girl having the best moments. His films aren't hugely easy to come by but I'll keep trying. (BTW I heard recently he was working with an English translator to bring his novels out in the uk, but so wanted them to be perfect it doesn't look like it'll happen.) | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 86.142.147.0 |
Oh, that's very sad.  The Iron Rose is far and away my favourite of his films but I do love Night of the Hunted and Fascination. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
RIP...he was a true original, and I'll for that alone forgive him any cinematic longuers and stilted narrative style. Is The Iron Rose the one set in the cemetery? I'm partial to Grapes of Death, too. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.202.203 |
The Iron rose! That's the one. Cross of Iron is about the bloody Germans! God... sorry, Jean!  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.202.203 |
Yes, the cemetery one. I keep thinking, like I said, that I dreamt it. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Always sad to hear of the death of another horror legend. I've only seen one Jean Rollin movie, 'Shiver Of The Vampires' (1970), and remember finding it unintentionally (I think) funny but also mesmerising for the gorgeous naked women in it... the wee blonde one was a stunner!  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.131.108.22 |
Ah, a bit naff that one, yes. But he's well worth a further dabble. As a few people have said, Iron Rose is wonderful. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
RIP seems odd in this context: I suspect he'd rather be haunting us from beyond the grave. Thanks for the films, JR. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 86.142.147.0 |
Let's hope he's surrounded by beautiful lesbian vampires wherever he is. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Blake Edwards has gone, too...shit, what a day. | ||
| Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer) Username: Matthew_fryer Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.195.182.42 |
I particularly enjoyed "Fascination". It managed to be stylish and trashy, with lesbian killers, a creepy atmosphere, and a beautifully photographed French castle. And the memory of Brigitte Lahaie stalking a victim across the moat with a scythe is a real stayer. RIP. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Blake Edwards early career was wonderful but he didn't half go off the boil in later years (a bit like Mel Brooks)! Still sad to see him go... | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
We has our Jean Rollin tribute this weekend - the Eurotika documentary Virgins & Vampires followed by Requiem for a Vampire in the original French. Our favourite is the quite wonderful La Rose de Fer but we'd seen that recently at the Festival of Fantastic Films. RIP Jean Rollin - he loved girls and graveyards and saw nothing wrong with delivering them in spades (and occasionally with spades) without the necessity for coherent narratives. And for once I didn't mind a bit. |