Readers in the UK will want to take a gander at what Nyx UK has in store for them next month. With spooky season in full swing you will not want to miss contemporary classics like The Evil Dead, Halloween, What Have You Done To Solange? and Bad Taste. Hammer Sundays next month will have Countess Dracula, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, The Revenge of Frankenstein and The Abominable Snowman. Friday nights get naughty with Jesús Franco’s Vampyro Lesbos and Jean Rollin's The Shiver of the Vampires and The Night of the Hunted. All the spooky season programming for next month on Nyx UK follows. The UK’s hottest Fast TV channel for horror fans unveils a ‘Helloween’ month of movies for October ...
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- 9/27/2023
- Screen Anarchy
Maximiliano Contenti's giallo love letter The Last Matinee leads Arrow's December SVOD lineup and we have an exclusive clip just for Daily Dead readers! Debuting on Arrow on December 1st to subscribers in the US, Canada, the UK, and Ireland, The Last Matinee will kick off Arrow's December releases, which is packed with an eclectic mix of titles that will please any genre fan:
December 1 will see the arrival of The Last Matinee (UK/US/CA/Ire), Santa Sangre (US/CA), All the Colors of the Giallo (UK/US/CA/Ire), King Boxer (UK/US/CA/Ire), The Boxer from Shantung (UK/US/CA/Ire), Five Shaolin Masters (UK/US/CA/Ire), Shaolin Temple (UK/US/CA/Ire), Mighty Peking Man (UK/US/CA/Ire), Challenge of the Masters (UK/US/CA/Ire), Executioners of Shaolin (UK/US/CA/Ire), Dirty Ho (UK/US/CA/Ire), Heroes of...
December 1 will see the arrival of The Last Matinee (UK/US/CA/Ire), Santa Sangre (US/CA), All the Colors of the Giallo (UK/US/CA/Ire), King Boxer (UK/US/CA/Ire), The Boxer from Shantung (UK/US/CA/Ire), Five Shaolin Masters (UK/US/CA/Ire), Shaolin Temple (UK/US/CA/Ire), Mighty Peking Man (UK/US/CA/Ire), Challenge of the Masters (UK/US/CA/Ire), Executioners of Shaolin (UK/US/CA/Ire), Dirty Ho (UK/US/CA/Ire), Heroes of...
- 11/29/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Editor’s note: The following is an exclusive excerpt from “’Castles of Subversion’ Continued: From the Roman Noir and Surrealism to Jean Rollin” by Virginie Sélavy. This essay is featured in “Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollins,” which is available now. To celebrate the book’s release, curator and editor Samm Deighan will be on hand to introduce a special screening of Rollin’s 1971 film “The Shiver of the Vampires” at the Brooklyn Horror Festival on October 14.
Usually deserted or abandoned, often in ruins or in a state of decay, sometimes captured just before demolition, always bearing the melancholy traces of human presence, locations are key to Jean Rollin’s cinema and often were the starting points for his films. Three in particular recur throughout his work: the famous Dieppe beach (specifically Pourville-sur-Mer), the cemetery, and the castle. The latter two are typical Gothic locations and an...
Usually deserted or abandoned, often in ruins or in a state of decay, sometimes captured just before demolition, always bearing the melancholy traces of human presence, locations are key to Jean Rollin’s cinema and often were the starting points for his films. Three in particular recur throughout his work: the famous Dieppe beach (specifically Pourville-sur-Mer), the cemetery, and the castle. The latter two are typical Gothic locations and an...
- 9/25/2017
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
The era of cinema referred to as Eurohorror is defined by its eroticism, over-the-top violence, and psychedelic supernatural approaches to storytelling. It’s a rabbit hole of movie culture. There are twisting avenues and bizarre subsections that seem endless, but few filmmakers created a library as compulsively watchable and weirdly hypnotizing as Jean Rollin’s. This man’s filmography is massive, a good amount of them representing his work-for-hire hardcore movies and the cheesier selection of horror films. One gets what one might expect: waif-like young women seducing men, seducing each other, and drinking gallons of bright red blood.
Yet something sets Rollin’s films apart from similar offerings: they’re literate. Rollin draws many of his plots from classic Gothic romances. He must have adapted Carmilla in one form or another a dozen times. Sheridan Le Fanu’s story, about an innocent girl seduced by a lonely but evil companion,...
Yet something sets Rollin’s films apart from similar offerings: they’re literate. Rollin draws many of his plots from classic Gothic romances. He must have adapted Carmilla in one form or another a dozen times. Sheridan Le Fanu’s story, about an innocent girl seduced by a lonely but evil companion,...
- 4/25/2017
- by Ben Larned
- DailyDead
Who is Isabella Stone?
If you stuck around for the promo for The Blacklist Season 4 Episode 13, then you already have a tidbit of an answer and a face behind the name.
But that aside, just who is this character that is attacking Red’s organization? Why is she coming after him? What is the deeper meaning behind it?
It’s the type of name drop that can keep Red sitting down and us viewers eager to find out just what type of character Red is going up against.
Clearly, The Blacklist Season 4 is trying to go somewhere different with respect to Red’s story.
I’m interested to see what his being targeted will mean going forward.
The name drop of Baldur Maggnuson on The Blacklist Season 4 Episode 11 certainly piqued my interests in Red facing off with a new nemesis.
The Blacklist Season 4 Episode 12 revealed he was pretty much a red herring,...
If you stuck around for the promo for The Blacklist Season 4 Episode 13, then you already have a tidbit of an answer and a face behind the name.
But that aside, just who is this character that is attacking Red’s organization? Why is she coming after him? What is the deeper meaning behind it?
It’s the type of name drop that can keep Red sitting down and us viewers eager to find out just what type of character Red is going up against.
Clearly, The Blacklist Season 4 is trying to go somewhere different with respect to Red’s story.
I’m interested to see what his being targeted will mean going forward.
The name drop of Baldur Maggnuson on The Blacklist Season 4 Episode 11 certainly piqued my interests in Red facing off with a new nemesis.
The Blacklist Season 4 Episode 12 revealed he was pretty much a red herring,...
- 2/3/2017
- by Sean McKenna
- TVfanatic
Award-winning indie filmmakers Sophia Cacciola and Michael J. Epstein (Magnetic, Ten) have launched their latest Kickstarter to fun their third feature, Blood of the Tribades. Described as a Hammer- and Jean Rollin-inspired, '70s lesbian vampire film, Cacciola and Epstein namecheck the majestic Countess Dracula, Twins of Evil, Vampyros Lesbos, and The Shiver of the Vampires as influences. Not content to simply be a vampire lesbian film, the story also focuses in on a socio-political statement. From the film's description: "A vampire named Bathor turned an entire village to vampires, stuck around long enough to teach them to survive, and then promised to return 2,000 years after conquering the rest of the continent. The only problem with this plan is that the vampires, although immortal, have only a...
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- 8/11/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 18, 2014
Price: DVD $59.95, Blu-ray $89.95
Studio: Kino Lorber
Jean Rollin's Requiem for a Vampire
Kino Lorber is bundling four of French filmmaker’s Jean Rollin sexy vampire flicks together in the inevitably entitled box set Jean Rollin: The Vampire Films.
As the constraints of censorship began to see in the late 1960′s and early ’70′s, visionary French filmmaker Rollin created a series of mesmerizing horror-thrillers that injected the Gothic vampire film with a more contemporary strain of eroticism. (He took what Hammer had done in the previous decade and turned it up a kinkily erotic notch.) Fluctuating between visual allure and shocking violence, Rollin’s films have come to be recognized as vital entries in the vampire genre.
The four films—The Rape of the Vampire (1968), The Nude Vampire (1970), The Shiver of the Vampires (1971) and Requiem for a Vampire (1973)—are mastered in HD from the original 35mm negatives.
Price: DVD $59.95, Blu-ray $89.95
Studio: Kino Lorber
Jean Rollin's Requiem for a Vampire
Kino Lorber is bundling four of French filmmaker’s Jean Rollin sexy vampire flicks together in the inevitably entitled box set Jean Rollin: The Vampire Films.
As the constraints of censorship began to see in the late 1960′s and early ’70′s, visionary French filmmaker Rollin created a series of mesmerizing horror-thrillers that injected the Gothic vampire film with a more contemporary strain of eroticism. (He took what Hammer had done in the previous decade and turned it up a kinkily erotic notch.) Fluctuating between visual allure and shocking violence, Rollin’s films have come to be recognized as vital entries in the vampire genre.
The four films—The Rape of the Vampire (1968), The Nude Vampire (1970), The Shiver of the Vampires (1971) and Requiem for a Vampire (1973)—are mastered in HD from the original 35mm negatives.
- 2/5/2014
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
The New York Film Festival began last Friday. It has long been the Notebook's hometown festival, but this year an unusual amount of films in the 2013 lineup our team has seen and written on at festivals throughout the year. We'll hopefully bring you some fresh coverage during and after the festival, but for now you'll find an index, below, of our reviews of, dialogues on, and interviews about films included in the 51st Nyff. The list will be updated new coverage as we publish it.
The Posters of the 51st New York Film Festival
by Adrian Curry
Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat)
by Daniel Kasman
Interview with Catherine Breillat
by Darren Hughes
At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman)
by Daniel Kasman
Interview with Frederick Wiseman
by Daniel Kasman
Bastards (Claire Denis)
by Daniel Kasman
Interview with Claire Denis
by Daniel Kasman
Gloria (Sebastián Lelio)
by Adam Cook
The Immigrant (James Gray)
Dialogue...
The Posters of the 51st New York Film Festival
by Adrian Curry
Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat)
by Daniel Kasman
Interview with Catherine Breillat
by Darren Hughes
At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman)
by Daniel Kasman
Interview with Frederick Wiseman
by Daniel Kasman
Bastards (Claire Denis)
by Daniel Kasman
Interview with Claire Denis
by Daniel Kasman
Gloria (Sebastián Lelio)
by Adam Cook
The Immigrant (James Gray)
Dialogue...
- 10/5/2013
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Revered horror/exploitation auteur Jess Franco left us last month (you can read our tribute to him here), but his legacy is being preserved thanks to some excellent video releases of his many genre creations – the latest being new Blu-rays of three Franco classics via Kino Lorber and Redemption Films: The Awful Dr. Orlof, A Virgin Among the Living Dead and Nightmares Come at Night will be released in deluxe editions this August, all mastered from archive materials from Eurociné Paris. The deluxe edition of Franco's 1962 landmark The Awful Dr. Orlof is newly mastered in HD, taken from the original uncut French-language version. It will also feature one of the last videotaped interviews with the director, a new commentary track by Tim Lucas (founder/editor of magazine Video Watchdog), as well as newly-filmed remembrances by Franco's friends and collaborators. The new disc of 1970's Nightmares Come at Night, starring the lovely Soledad Miranda,...
- 5/18/2013
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
A Planet Fury-approved selection of notable genre releases for April.
John Dies at the End (2012) Magnolia Home Entertainment Blu-ray and DVD Available Now
Finally, a new Don Coscarelli movie! After years of waiting, the cult auteur comes back with a lively adaptation of David Wong’s popular novel. A drug that induces an out-of-body experience sends its users across time and other dimensions. When some of them come back not quite human, an otherworldly invasion is set into motion. Suddenly, college dropouts John (Rob Mayes) and Dave (Chase Williamson) find themselves in an epic battle to save the world. Coscarelli’s surreal visual flair and black comic bent are in full effect here. Hopefully, its critical success will ensure that the beloved filmmaker won't have to wait another ten years to make a film.
Special Features:
· Feature-length audio commentary by Coscarelli, Williamson, Mayes and producer Brad Baruh
· Seven deleted...
John Dies at the End (2012) Magnolia Home Entertainment Blu-ray and DVD Available Now
Finally, a new Don Coscarelli movie! After years of waiting, the cult auteur comes back with a lively adaptation of David Wong’s popular novel. A drug that induces an out-of-body experience sends its users across time and other dimensions. When some of them come back not quite human, an otherworldly invasion is set into motion. Suddenly, college dropouts John (Rob Mayes) and Dave (Chase Williamson) find themselves in an epic battle to save the world. Coscarelli’s surreal visual flair and black comic bent are in full effect here. Hopefully, its critical success will ensure that the beloved filmmaker won't have to wait another ten years to make a film.
Special Features:
· Feature-length audio commentary by Coscarelli, Williamson, Mayes and producer Brad Baruh
· Seven deleted...
- 4/12/2013
- by Bradley Harding
- Planet Fury
It's been a little over a year since Kino Lorber's partnership with Redemption Films bore fruit to the home video consumer with their releases of five classic Jean Rollin features. The last year has been an amazing ride packed with some incredible titles and neat little discoveries for the discerning Eurosleaze film fan. The latest batch of titles from Redemption prove nothing if not their dedication to preservation of these sometimes awful films, but their treatment of even the most boring of garbage is to be commended, and lord knows there's someone out there chomping at the bit to complete their collection. That someone is me.The Pete Walker CollectionOne of the fantastic things about Redemption Films vast catalog is that they, very much like the BFI's...
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- 2/25/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Fango got the word that Dark Sky Films will release Conor McMahon’s killer-clown flick Stitches (pictured) on DVD ($24.98) and Blu-ray ($29.98) February 19; special features, if any, are to be announced. Art has appeared for New Video’s DVD ($26.95) and Blu-ray ($29.95) editions of Ciarán Foy’s Citadel, out January 29 with no bonus features announced, and the company also has Michael Axelgaard’s rural chiller Hollow hitting February 19 and the Vicious Brothers and director John Poliquin’s found-footage sequel Grave Encounters 2 set for March 12 on DVD ($26.95 each) and Blu-ray/DVD combo ($29.95 each) with a behind-the-scenes featurette on the former and a Vicious Brothers interview on the latter.
Speaking of found footage, that approach is applied to Mary Shelley’s creation in The Frankenstein Theory, in which a documentary film crew accompanies a professor—who believes the classic novel was based on fact—to the Arctic Circle. Directed by Andrew Weiner, the...
Speaking of found footage, that approach is applied to Mary Shelley’s creation in The Frankenstein Theory, in which a documentary film crew accompanies a professor—who believes the classic novel was based on fact—to the Arctic Circle. Directed by Andrew Weiner, the...
- 12/13/2012
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
Fango got the word that Dark Sky Films will release Conor McMahon’s killer-clown flick Stitches (pictured) on DVD ($24.98) and Blu-ray ($29.98) February 19; special features, if any, are to be announced. Art has appeared for New Video’s DVD ($26.95) and Blu-ray ($29.95) editions of Ciarán Foy’s Citadel, out January 29 with no bonus features announced, and the company also has Michael Axelgaard’s rural chiller Hollow hitting February 19 and the Vicious Brothers and director John Poliquin’s found-footage sequel Grave Encounters 2 set for March 12 on DVD ($26.95 each) and Blu-ray/DVD combo ($29.95 each) with a behind-the-scenes featurette on the former and a Vicious Brothers interview on the latter.
Speaking of found footage, that approach is applied to Mary Shelley’s creation in The Frankenstein Theory, in which a documentary film crew accompanies a professor—who believes the classic novel was based on fact—to the Arctic Circle. Directed by Andrew Weiner, the...
Speaking of found footage, that approach is applied to Mary Shelley’s creation in The Frankenstein Theory, in which a documentary film crew accompanies a professor—who believes the classic novel was based on fact—to the Arctic Circle. Directed by Andrew Weiner, the...
- 12/13/2012
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
Fango got the word that Dark Sky Films will release Conor McMahon’s killer-clown flick Stitches (pictured) on DVD ($24.98) and Blu-ray ($29.98) February 19; special features, if any, are to be announced. Art has appeared for New Video’s DVD ($26.95) and Blu-ray ($29.95) editions of Ciarán Foy’s Citadel, out January 29 with no bonus features announced, and the company also has Michael Axelgaard’s rural chiller Hollow hitting February 19 and the Vicious Brothers and director John Poliquin’s found-footage sequel Grave Encounters 2 set for March 12 on DVD ($26.95 each) and Blu-ray/DVD combo ($29.95 each) with a behind-the-scenes featurette on the former and a Vicious Brothers interview on the latter.
Speaking of found footage, that approach is applied to Mary Shelley’s creation in The Frankenstein Theory, in which a documentary film crew accompanies a professor—who believes the classic novel was based on fact—to the Arctic Circle. Directed by Andrew Weiner, the...
Speaking of found footage, that approach is applied to Mary Shelley’s creation in The Frankenstein Theory, in which a documentary film crew accompanies a professor—who believes the classic novel was based on fact—to the Arctic Circle. Directed by Andrew Weiner, the...
- 12/13/2012
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
Fans of early 1990’s direct-to-video sequels and early 1980’s European Nazi zombie flicks have reason to celebrate this February as Night of the Demons 2, Jean Rollin’s Zombie Lake, and Jesus Franco’s Oasis of the Zombies make their debut on Blu-ray.
First up on February 19th, Olive Films is set to give the Blu-ray treatment to Night of the Demons 2, director Brian Trenchard-Smith’s well-regarded 1994 direct-to-video sequel starring Christi Harris, Amerlia Kinkade, Robert Jayne, Zoe Trilling, and a pre-Mrs. Ben Stiller Christine Taylor.
In this diabolical sequel to the popular shocker, the students from St. Rita's Academy throw a party at a haunted house, only to have it disrupted by Angela, the hostess from Hell, and her ghoulish pals. The kids try to find refuge at a teen dance, but things get even scarier there! Bobby Jacoby and Amelia Kinkade star in this special effects-filled terrorthon...
No disc specs as of yet.
First up on February 19th, Olive Films is set to give the Blu-ray treatment to Night of the Demons 2, director Brian Trenchard-Smith’s well-regarded 1994 direct-to-video sequel starring Christi Harris, Amerlia Kinkade, Robert Jayne, Zoe Trilling, and a pre-Mrs. Ben Stiller Christine Taylor.
In this diabolical sequel to the popular shocker, the students from St. Rita's Academy throw a party at a haunted house, only to have it disrupted by Angela, the hostess from Hell, and her ghoulish pals. The kids try to find refuge at a teen dance, but things get even scarier there! Bobby Jacoby and Amelia Kinkade star in this special effects-filled terrorthon...
No disc specs as of yet.
- 12/6/2012
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and special items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.
12-gauge Comics
Ride Southern Gothic #2 (Of 2), $5.99
Aam Markosia
Dark Lies Darker Truths Gn, $15.99
Voyaga Gn, $12.99
Aazurn Publishing
Indie Comics Horror #1 (not verified by Diamond), $4.75
Ics
Crypt Of Horror Volume 15 Tp, $29.95
Alternative Comics
Injury #4, $6.00
Amryl Entertainment
Cavewoman Gangster #2 (Of 3)(Budd Root Special Edition), Ar
Andrews McMeel
Big Nate All Work And No Play Tp, $14.99
Arcana Studio
Pixies Hc (resolicited), $19.95
Archie Comics
Kevin Keller Volume 1 Welcome To Riverdale Tp, $11.99
Life With Archie #24 (Fernando Ruiz & Bob Smith Cover), $3.99
Life With Archie #24 (Fiona Staples Cover), $3.99
New Crusaders Rise Of The Heroes #3 (Ben Bates Regular Cover), $2.99
New Crusaders Rise Of The Heroes #3 (Pep Comics Variant Cover), $2.99
New Crusaders Rise Of The Heroes #3 (Sanford Greene Variant Cover), $2.99
Sonic Super Digest #1, $3.99
Sonic The Hedgehog Genesis Tp,...
12-gauge Comics
Ride Southern Gothic #2 (Of 2), $5.99
Aam Markosia
Dark Lies Darker Truths Gn, $15.99
Voyaga Gn, $12.99
Aazurn Publishing
Indie Comics Horror #1 (not verified by Diamond), $4.75
Ics
Crypt Of Horror Volume 15 Tp, $29.95
Alternative Comics
Injury #4, $6.00
Amryl Entertainment
Cavewoman Gangster #2 (Of 3)(Budd Root Special Edition), Ar
Andrews McMeel
Big Nate All Work And No Play Tp, $14.99
Arcana Studio
Pixies Hc (resolicited), $19.95
Archie Comics
Kevin Keller Volume 1 Welcome To Riverdale Tp, $11.99
Life With Archie #24 (Fernando Ruiz & Bob Smith Cover), $3.99
Life With Archie #24 (Fiona Staples Cover), $3.99
New Crusaders Rise Of The Heroes #3 (Ben Bates Regular Cover), $2.99
New Crusaders Rise Of The Heroes #3 (Pep Comics Variant Cover), $2.99
New Crusaders Rise Of The Heroes #3 (Sanford Greene Variant Cover), $2.99
Sonic Super Digest #1, $3.99
Sonic The Hedgehog Genesis Tp,...
- 11/5/2012
- by Adam B.
- GeekRest
Up to this point, Redemption's Blu-ray releases of the work of Jean Rollin has focused on his classical period, that is, the films from his debut in 1968 with The Rape of the Vampire through the early '80s with films like The Living Dead Girl. The latter film pretty much serves as the line of demarcation between those films made from passion in his hungry years and the films he made in the '80s to pay the bills. Between 1983's Sadomania and 1994's Le parfum de Mathilde, Rollin mostly served as a hired gun making sex films; some classy and some not so classy. It wasn't until 1997 that he was able to make something that resembled the films for which he's known best; that...
- 9/12/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Back in 2010, we were extremely excited to review the very first Mario Bava film to hit Blu-ray with Arrow Video's release of Bay of Blood. At the time cult video geeks were hoping that this release would open the flood gates for Bava in HD, if ever there was a filmmaker whose work was made for Blu-ray it is this one. However months passed and there were no more releases in sight until Eurohorror collection Redemption Films teamed up with Arthouse champions Kino Lorber, and those floodgates began to leak like a sieve. Redemption introduced themselves to the world of high definition with a massive pile of Jean Rollin Blu-rays, an impressively curated collection which has still not exhausted itself. Then they released the...
- 9/11/2012
- Screen Anarchy
When Bernard Natan, head of Pathé, had his French nationality taken away during the French Occupation (after which he perished in Auschwitz), his brother Emile, also a film producer, was similarly denaturalized. But Emile escaped the country, enlisted abroad, and was able to return to France as a conquering hero at the end of the war. His citizenship was restored and he resumed his producing career, notably with Yves Allegret's Maneges (1950).
When Natan died, his company was taken over by his daughter Monique. Now it was the Sixties, and a whole new generation of filmmakers were at work, with a whole new style. But Monique rejected all offers from the nouvelle vague—the only two filmmakers she took a real interest in were Jean Rollin, with whom she produced and co-wrote Le frisson des Vampires (softcore erotic vampire S&M horror), and Alain Jessua.
Jeu de massacre (1967), Jessua's film for Natan's Les Films Modernes,...
When Natan died, his company was taken over by his daughter Monique. Now it was the Sixties, and a whole new generation of filmmakers were at work, with a whole new style. But Monique rejected all offers from the nouvelle vague—the only two filmmakers she took a real interest in were Jean Rollin, with whom she produced and co-wrote Le frisson des Vampires (softcore erotic vampire S&M horror), and Alain Jessua.
Jeu de massacre (1967), Jessua's film for Natan's Les Films Modernes,...
- 6/14/2012
- MUBI
Jean Rollin "was a double outsider," argues Dave Kehr in the New York Times, "a filmmaker drawn to the fantastique in a country that had a limited tradition of genre filmmaking as well as a proud tradition of Cartesian rationalism that discouraged explorations of the supernatural. What France did offer, however, was a thriving interest in eroticism, and when Rollin was finally able to make his first feature, The Rape of the Vampire (1968), he did so by combining his childhood fascination with American cliffhanger serials and early-20th-century French fantasists like Gaston Leroux (author of The Phantom of the Opera) with gauzy nudes and exotic couplings." The British company Redemption is "collaborating with Kino International to release handsomely remastered Blu-rays, taken from the original camera negatives, of five key Rollin titles: The Nude Vampire (1970), The Shiver of the Vampires (1971), The Iron Rose (1973), Lips of Blood (1975) and Fascination (1979)."
"Entering Rollin's cinematic...
"Entering Rollin's cinematic...
- 1/30/2012
- MUBI
Our look into the films of Jean Rollin on Blu-ray continues with his third feature, The Shiver of the Vampires (Le frisson des vampires). Shiver finds Rollin exploring the possibilities of the vampire myth in a completely different, yet somehow more conventional way than his previous two films. The piercing black humor in this film makes it one of my favorites, and it really benefits from the HD upgrade. Kino's Blu-ray of this film is beautiful, though not without its fair share of print damage, and definitely worth the upgrade.When a honeymooning couple visit the crumbling estate of the bride's ancestors, they discover her closet is filled with more than skeletons: a sinister lesbian vampire, a pair of nubile handmaidens, and two vampire hunters who...
- 1/18/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Euro-sleaze fans rejoice! 2012 will bring a slew of remastered, restored films by Jean Rollin to blu-ray, thanks to Kino Lorber. The distribution company, led by director/producer Bret Wood, will release nearly a dozen classic films from the French filmmaker. For those who are not familiar, Rollin (who died in 2010) was best known for his 1960s and 1970s films that mix horror with soft-core sex. Starting in January, Kino Lorber will be releasing The Nude Vampire, The Shiver of the Vampires, The Iron Rose, Lips of Blood and Fascination, with another half-dozen titles to follow throughout the year. Get more info on the releases, along with some blu-ray stills (warning: images are Nsfw) after the jump. Wood spoke to Rollin...
- 1/4/2012
- FEARnet
Following rounds 1 and 2, this one will take us right on through the countdown to Halloween and will surely be the most actively updated of the bunch. Best to begin, then, by grounding it in a classic, so we turn to David Kalat: "Frankenstein isn't a science fiction story about an arrogant scientist who intrudes on God's domain, it's a metaphor about our relationship to God." That's his argument, and I'll let him explain, but I want to pull back to a couple of earlier sentences in his piece. Mary Shelley's novel, "and the 1910 film version, treated the 'science' of Frankenstein as just so much folderol, a MacGuffin to introduce the artificial man into the story. Whale was so good at providing a reasonably convincing visualization of reviving the dead — no, more than that, a stunningly satisfying visualization of reviving the dead — it focused popular attention on that part of...
- 10/27/2011
- MUBI
Kino Lorber and Redemption Films celebrated their new partnership at the Gershwin Hotel in New York last night with a screening of Jean Rollin's 1970 "The Shiver of the Vampires," one of several vintage horror titles from Redemption's library. The deal between the companies positions Kino Lorber as the exclusive distributor for Redemption Films in U.S. and Canada. Kino Lorber plans on releasing 35 films from the library on DVD, ...
- 10/27/2011
- Indiewire
For the horror buff, Fall is the best time of the year. The air is crisp, the leaves are falling and a feeling of death hangs on the air. Here at Sound on Sight we have some of the biggest horror fans you can find. We are continually showcasing the best of genre cinema, so we’ve decided to put our horror knowledge and passion to the test in a horror watching contest. Each week in October, Ricky D, James Merolla and Justine Smith will post a list of the horror films they have watched. By the end of the month, the person who has seen the most films wins. Prize Tbd.
Ricky D (15 Viewings) Total of 29 Viewings
Purchase
Thirst (1979)
Directed by Rod Hardy
The film is best described as one long dream sequence with nods to David Cronenberg, Rosemary’s Baby and perhaps even Solyent Green. Thirst features some superb in-camera visual effects,...
Ricky D (15 Viewings) Total of 29 Viewings
Purchase
Thirst (1979)
Directed by Rod Hardy
The film is best described as one long dream sequence with nods to David Cronenberg, Rosemary’s Baby and perhaps even Solyent Green. Thirst features some superb in-camera visual effects,...
- 10/11/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Tremors? Nightbreed? Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat? 976-evil? Are all on the list this year. And though there were not huge horror wins in sound editing through screenplays, the Technical Awards never cease to bring out the horror veterans. Notably Tim Drnec who contributed to such VHS classics as Alien Seed, Destroyer, and Prison won for his work on “Spydercam 3D volumetric suspended cable camera technologies.” An award also shared with Ben Britten Smith and Matt Davis who both also worked on Constantine.
But among all the winners, the Academy also honored some great loses in 2010. And though they mentioned some of our heroes, Dennis Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2), Kevin McCarthy (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) and Dino de Laurentiis (King Kong), they did not mention Zelda Rubinstein or Corey Haim. But we will in this last section and the others lost to us last year.
So farewell fight fans and remember,...
But among all the winners, the Academy also honored some great loses in 2010. And though they mentioned some of our heroes, Dennis Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2), Kevin McCarthy (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) and Dino de Laurentiis (King Kong), they did not mention Zelda Rubinstein or Corey Haim. But we will in this last section and the others lost to us last year.
So farewell fight fans and remember,...
- 3/13/2011
- by Heather Buckley
- DreadCentral.com
"Fangoria has learned of the passing of beloved French erotic-horror filmmaker Jean Rollin. The director died last night, after a long illness. He was 72. Fans of European genre films, especially those coming out of the free-thinking 1970s, are no doubt aware of the work of Rollin — a talented, gentle poet of sensual horror, a man who made personal, lush and haunting works that were often ghettoized alongside the efforts of some of his more crass contemporaries and yet almost always offered something more, something richer and more melancholy."
"Rollin's movies frequently tell conventional horror stories," wrote James Newman for Images in 2000. "The Shiver of the Vampires, for example, gives us one of the most familiar of all horror plots: a newlywed couple spends an evening at a castle and discovers it is crawling with vampires. But Rollin tells his stories in the most unconventional of ways. In Shiver, the vampires...
"Rollin's movies frequently tell conventional horror stories," wrote James Newman for Images in 2000. "The Shiver of the Vampires, for example, gives us one of the most familiar of all horror plots: a newlywed couple spends an evening at a castle and discovers it is crawling with vampires. But Rollin tells his stories in the most unconventional of ways. In Shiver, the vampires...
- 12/17/2010
- MUBI
The Final Girl: A Few Thoughts on Feminism and Horror By Donato Totaro
One of the more important, if not groundbreaking, accounts/recuperations of the horror film from a feminist perspective is the 1993 Carol Clover's "Men, Women, and Chainsaws". One of the book's major points concerns the structural positioning of what she calls the Final Girl in relation to spectatorship. While most theorists label the horror film as a male-driven/male-centered genre, Clover points out that in most horror films, especially the slasher film, the audience, male and female, is structurally 'forced' to identify with the resourceful young female (the Final Girl) who survives the serial attacker and usually ends the threat (until the sequel anyway.) So while the narratively dominant killer's subjective point of view may be male within the narrative,the male viewer is still rooting for the Final Girl to overcome the killer. We can see this...
One of the more important, if not groundbreaking, accounts/recuperations of the horror film from a feminist perspective is the 1993 Carol Clover's "Men, Women, and Chainsaws". One of the book's major points concerns the structural positioning of what she calls the Final Girl in relation to spectatorship. While most theorists label the horror film as a male-driven/male-centered genre, Clover points out that in most horror films, especially the slasher film, the audience, male and female, is structurally 'forced' to identify with the resourceful young female (the Final Girl) who survives the serial attacker and usually ends the threat (until the sequel anyway.) So while the narratively dominant killer's subjective point of view may be male within the narrative,the male viewer is still rooting for the Final Girl to overcome the killer. We can see this...
- 12/21/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Holger Haase Oct 12, 2019
From the mesmerizing Countess Maja to the captivating Carmilla Karnstein, lesbian vampires embody immortal sin.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
Vampire lesbians, is there any creature more seductive, hypnotic or seductively sinful? Jesus Christ himself had to come back in the 2001 film Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter to protect Canadian lesbians from the most provocative of predators.
Saphic sanguinarians started staking their claim in Joseph Sheridan le Fanu's novella Carmilla (1872). From Gloria Holden’s magnetic eyes in Dracula's Daughter (1936) through Ingrid Pitt’s sultry invitation in The Vampire Lovers (1970) to the revivalist Lesbian Vampire Killers, the irresistible sirens have held an almost fetishistic fascination over moviegoers.
Charles Busch lightly spoofed them in the downtown stage play Vampire Lesbians of Sodom. Jesús Franco exploited them in the 1971 West German-Spanish horror film Vampyros Lesbos, starring Soledad Miranda as the Countess Nadine Carody.
Here are ten reasons why...
From the mesmerizing Countess Maja to the captivating Carmilla Karnstein, lesbian vampires embody immortal sin.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
Vampire lesbians, is there any creature more seductive, hypnotic or seductively sinful? Jesus Christ himself had to come back in the 2001 film Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter to protect Canadian lesbians from the most provocative of predators.
Saphic sanguinarians started staking their claim in Joseph Sheridan le Fanu's novella Carmilla (1872). From Gloria Holden’s magnetic eyes in Dracula's Daughter (1936) through Ingrid Pitt’s sultry invitation in The Vampire Lovers (1970) to the revivalist Lesbian Vampire Killers, the irresistible sirens have held an almost fetishistic fascination over moviegoers.
Charles Busch lightly spoofed them in the downtown stage play Vampire Lesbians of Sodom. Jesús Franco exploited them in the 1971 West German-Spanish horror film Vampyros Lesbos, starring Soledad Miranda as the Countess Nadine Carody.
Here are ten reasons why...
- 1/18/2009
- Den of Geek
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