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 is traced back to a scientific fortress melodramatically known as "The Black Tower," where people suffering memory and identity loss due to accidental nuclear contamination are being held and treated.
Jess Franco • France • 1962 • Curses and bloodlines, Franco-style.
A series of grisly murders in the remote village of Holfen convinces the locals that the town is still cursed by the spirit of a 17th-century baron who maintained an elaborate torture chamber in the dungeon of his estate. Undaunt...
Jean Rollin • France • 1971 • Rollin's most visually inventive work.
Of all Rollin's films, Shiver is the most visually inventive, teeming with startling images such as Sandra Julien visiting a cemetery in her bridal gown and moving amongst the headstones like a ghost, or the contrast between he...
