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Requiem for a Vampire (1972)

Posted on November 9, 2011 at 5:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

This, Jean Rollin’s fourth vampire film, would be his last for a while – he would try something artsier next, before getting sidelined into the sexploitation market. You can begin to see that grindhouse pull with Requiem for a Vampire … Continue reading →

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Shiver of the Vampires (1971)

Posted on October 21, 2011 at 5:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Jean Rollin immediately followed The Nude Vampire (1970) with another low-budget piece of vampire erotica, Shiver of the Vampires (Le frisson des vampires, 1971), and although he would continue to pursue the same Gothic obsessions until his death in 2010, … Continue reading →

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The Nude Vampire (1970)

Posted on October 19, 2011 at 5:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

The impression one gets from Jean Rollin’s early films is that he wrote no screenplay, but worked instead from hastily-scribbled, vaguely-realized ideas in a notebook. This adds to both their charm and their incoherency. Rape of the Vampire (1968), his … Continue reading →

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