un poll de jean rollin

thought id put this out there before a horror poll gets going
lots of these can be streamed on netfllix as was mentioned & a batch were recently put out on blu

didnt really need to be a poll, i have no clue how i'll decide but w/e
"other" is if you desperately feel the need to vote for one of his pseudonymous porns or i guess a short

also wanted a dedicated thread to post so many amazing tumblr/blog stills that are out there~

http://images3.static-bluray.com/reviews/5487_5.jpg
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldlmdu7Wv81qavk2zo1_500.png
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/3977/nuitdestraquees1.jpg

I still don't quite get this dude. But he bores me in a fascinating enough manner that I want to keep trying. The Iron Rose is my fave, a sexy puzzle of a movie with dialogue by Maurice Lemaître.

oh god, i haven't seen enough JR to vote in good conscience, but i love LIVING DEAD GIRL (la morte vivante) so much that i can't not go for that. so spooky, sad, ridiculous and gorgeous. the few others i've seen* haven't liked anywhere near as much.

* including rape, requiem and what i think was sidewalks of bangkok. something very different in style and tone aar.

hard to find good pix from LMV that aren't NSFW

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n35PfUpWyak/SzYsZrz7qBI/AAAAAAAASns/VyqfgtMC3wk/s400/Living+Dead+Girl+49.JPG

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwgt9nhri11qzr8nao1_500.png

We should probably just make this thread NSFW so I can post stills from La Vampire Nue.

leonard & the squigcohens

Well I quit.

Instinctively moved to click on Fascination but went with Night Of The Hunted, in the end. Planning to watch Dracula's Fiance this weekend.

An all-time favorite director. Very hard to pick just one. Instinct is to go for Nude Vampire as my first and favorite from his vampire cycle, though Iron Rose and Night of the Hunted are both outstanding in their own way

Just in case anyone interested hasn't seen it already, Jeremy Richey's blog "Fascination: The Jean Rollin Experience" is amazing - enough stills, research, reviews and interviews there for a really substantial book.

Nude Vampire is really great, the costumes are incredible. it made me wish he did a straight up cult movie

it's probably btwn iron rose & night of the hunted for me

plz report back abt draculas fiancee! xp

It looks like Night of the Hunted is actually the only one I've seen, quite surprised by this. I do love it, though the exposition at the end is the most cringe-making I've ever seen.

http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/vampire1.jpg

love druillet's poster for the nude vampire. i first heard of rollin in david pirie's fantastic vampire cinema bk, which was fully of sexy vampire images and is still a p gd read

watched 'requiem' yesterday -- the long, chained up, sepia-toned dungeon rape scene is O_O

was reading the cahill & tombs 'immoral tales' book ~ is interesting how they talk abt Requiem having v little sex in it & presumably the 1 i reference above being cut from most prints

is also interesting that that scene culminates in the 'bat' scene which seems to be a fav image amongst the world of pervy internet horror ppl

many xps to contenderizer: im almost positive you'd like others of these if your that into 'living dead girl'.

'rape'& 'requiem' (can't speak abt 'bangkok') are imo a level below say, 'demoniacs' / 'lips of blood' / 'iron rose' / 'night of the hunted'

holy crap that druillet poster is gorgeous! want

and yeah, the requiem scene you mention disqualifies it from having "v little sex"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RqJRhAIifw

both of these are dope

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_n35PfUpWyak/S4O85lMpv4I/AAAAAAAAT74/OQW8F-rrqa4/s1600/wfascinationsvd.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n35PfUpWyak/S4O84gCwU3I/AAAAAAAAT7g/xLE1SGVAZu4/s1600-h/wfascam.jpg

hmm, too big?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n35PfUpWyak/S4O84gCwU3I/AAAAAAAAT7g/xLE1SGVAZu4/s1600-h/wfascam.jpg

Nah that's fine.

was reading the cahill & tombs 'immoral tales' book

This book fueled like five years of me and my ex buying stuff from VSOM (before everything became DVDified).

Also Fascination cover is great!

watched a chunk of fascination @ a friend's house last night! "band practice" so i couldn't see the whole thing, but the 20-30 minutes i took a break with looked amazing.

Have only seen the first four, of which Nude is my favorite. I guess Iron Rose is the next to look at; thanks to all for the input here.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

timely!

http://www.volcanictongue.com/labels/show/1966

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

9 votes! ill take it

Thanks for putting this together, johnny. Great to see Night of the Hunted getting recognition!

Must track down his last couple, Mask of Medusa and La nuit des horloges, neither of which were available subbed last time I looked.

TCM is showing The Iron Rose at 2am on Friday night/Sat morning!

Wha?? That's nuts. There's boobage in it, is there not? Can TCM show that?

they also showed it back in oct or nov & thats how i initially got into rollin fyi

i watched bacchanales sexuelles/fly me the french way - better than id been led 2 believe, joelle coeur is the best; sex scenes are def a bit forced but they are more playful than pervy imo. this 1 will def not be on tcm any time soon tho

a lot of his lesser-known stuff (including 1s i didnt even list in this poll like lost in new york & schoolgirl hitchikers) are now streaming on netflix. should be interesting 2 explore

my suspicion is that netflix is trying to max out its vampire/zombie/etc streaming content in any way it can

There are several of these on Kanopy Streaming (free through your library) FYI. I watched Lips of Blood a while back and found the opening and closing scenes really nice, the rest fairly goofy. Maybe it's the vampire teeth.

Caught a few of these at the Quad in NYC.

The Nude Vampire: Looks great all around. Really weird, disorienting plot. Quite original for the genre. Can't get enough of the Castel twins.

The Shiver of the Vampires: Has more of a one-track plot, but makes up for it with humor and visual audacity at every turn. Sandra Julien looks awesome in this, kinda like an auburn-haired Deborah Harry. Marie-Pierre Castel returns and steals the show.

Fascination: Not bad, a bit slicker and less wackadoodle than the above two. Cast was excellent but I felt I needed a bit more from the story.

oh hell yeah there's a jean rollin thread

watched the rape of the vampire (1968) last night. absolutely nonsensical, the story was def stretched to fit around the images, but what images!!!!

shiver of the vampires was the best one yet. almost comically slow yes but the shot compositions, the lighting, and the story all give off this seductive art-exploitation vibe without being very sleazy at all

(nude vampire was also excellent but a little baggier overall, though i loved the weirdly involved plot)

also all of these films have had dynamite scores

Highly recommend this anthology of critical/feminist writing on Rollin if you can find it somewhere:

http://www.spectacularoptical.ca/store/product/lost-girls-the-phantasmagorical-cinema-of-jean-rollin/

omg i already want that so bad

Requiem for a Vampire (1971) 0

shiver of the vampires had a sparer plot than the previous two and then this one is like "hm do we even need a plot???" and the answer is no you don't, all you need is two women in clown suits wandering around a castle

still steady progressing through these. watching fascination tonight. my ranking so far:

the iron rose
lips of blood
shiver of the vampires
the grapes of death
requiem for a vampire
the demoniacs
the nude vampire
rape of the vampire

not sure why the iron rose speaks to me the most but it's the most dreamlike and uneventful

like you can describe the entire plot in a sentence

the demoniacs has two rape scenes that are really tough to get through but otherwise it's one of his more idiosyncratic films, it only becomes a true jean rollin film about wandering around ruins with two lesbians who look like sisters about halfway through

grapes of death was phenomenal and scary and ridiculous and probably too low in my ranking. really claustrophobic and nerve-wracking for how slow it was

lips of blood the true sleeper hit, great story, nonstop hallucinatory dreaminess

fascination is fucking amazing!!!!

i can fully see why night of the hunted won this poll. it is PROFOUNDLY sad, way moreso than any of his other films

London Live, the largely terrible TV channel on Freeview which seems to be some sort of tax loss/vanity project of Evgeny Lebedev's, has started showing the occasional Jean Rollin film. "The Iron Rose" is on right now.

... and on again tonight!

... and followed immediately by "The Grapes of Death", which is on way past my bedtime but will no doubt be shown again at some point.