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 wizard Cagliostro, who is assisted by a blind bird-woman with an unquenchable thirst for blood. The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein merges Franco’s fondness for old-school horror with perverse takes on sex and violence, partly inspired by the garish adult European comics of the early 1970s.
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 ...
Jean Rollin • France • 1980 • A unique, exceptional chapter in Rollin's corpus.
A man driving home late one night nearly hits a beautiful woman running wild in the streets. Back at his apartment they make love, and he discovers that she has already forgotten where they met. The amnesiac woman ...
