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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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Rape of the Vampire (1968)

Posted on October 17, 2011 at 5:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Jean Rollin (1938-2010) did not direct films; he directed dreams. And they were no one’s dreams but his. Prolific from the 60’s until his death, he was also an obsessively personal filmmaker, and a smotheringly intense fetishist, like Luis Buñuel … Continue reading →

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