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. Undaunted by the villagers' superstitions, a detective quickly focuses his investigation upon the creepy Max Von Klaus. Meanwhile, the youngest male descendent of the Von Klaux bloodline returns home to mourn the death of his mother, and must wrestle with his own connection to the cursed family history.
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...
