Jean Rollin • France • 1974 • A Poe-like study of guilt and revenge.
A Poe-like study of guilt and revenge, The Demoniacs follows a band of "wreckers" who lure a ship into coastal waters, then plunder the remains. They rape and murder two young sisters who managed to survive the wreck—these ghostly sisters haunt the Captain, exacting their revenge with the help of the Devil himself.
Jess Franco • France • 1972 • A melding of Franco's fondness for classic horror with sex and violence.
After the death of Victor Frankenstein, two figures vie for control of his metallic-skinned monster and the radical technology that created him: the scientist's daughter, Vera, and the immortal...
Jean Rollin • France • 1978 • An ever-expanding nightmare, Rollin-style.
Tainted wine at an annual Grape Harvest Festival results in almost an entire village under the spell of a strange form of zombiism, all but a few denizens gripped by anarchical insanity. Rollin’s most frightening film unfo...
Jean Rollin • France • 1973 • Rollin's first masterpiece.
In Rollin's first masterpiece, two young lovers become lost in an ancient graveyard; while one panics, the other sublimates her frustrated passion into a jubilant communion with the dead. The Iron Rose is a haunting experience—a macabre ...
