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Has anyone seen Jean Rollins The Iron Rose? The description sounds wonderful
'A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them.'
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Naw. I saw Caged Virgins many years ago, and I wasn't impressed. I should probably check out more of his films.
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We basically can have the same discussion as we had about Jess Franco movies.
I absolutely love Jean Rollin as well ! (no surprise there, i assume)
The Iron Rose is among the better ones.. just don't expect much of a storyline or anything like that. What is does have is plenty of beautiful macabre imagery from start to finish.. and that typical melancholic feel.
I love this stuff !
In my book, The Iron Rose comes highly recommended !
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Fantastic poster! Still seen only two Rollin films Fascination and Living Dead Girl. What can you say about these: The Naked Vampire, Requiem for a Vampire (i see that Helen approves), Demoniacs, Rape of the Vampire, Lips of Blood and Shiver of the Vampires?
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Man, i can't choose between those. I love 'em all !
About a decade ago several of these titles were released on deluxe triple disc sets, right here in Holland. Lovely packaging, plus hefty booklets were included. They were exceptional releases, but in the meantime they're surpassed by the Redemption blu-rays from the US, which are amazing when it comes to video quality.
I never really had a thing for Requiem For A Vampire, remarkably.. but Demoniacs and Lips Of Blood are superb examples of surreal European horror cinema.
The book is brand new.. and i'm eagerly awaiting for my copy to arrive ! Posts: 2176 | From: The Netherlands | Registered: Jun 2011 | Site Updates: 0
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quote:'A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them.'
That does sound good! Got me interested now...
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I'm willing to give Rollin a go, so Iron Rose goes to the top my list. (Funny how the French, outside of Franju and Rollin, never really made a mark in horror films.) Now Claude Chabrol, on the other hand, is one of my favorite directors. (Although I have not seen Alice.) Le Boucher is just about perfect. This Man Must Die and Blood Relatives are pretty impressive too. He was the modern-day French Hitchcock
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quote:Originally posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless: We basically can have the same discussion as we had about Jess Franco movies.
I absolutely love Jean Rollin as well ! (no surprise there, i assume)
The Iron Rose is among the better ones.. just don't expect much of a storyline or anything like that. What is does have is plenty of beautiful macabre imagery from start to finish.. and that typical melancholic feel.
I love this stuff !
In my book, The Iron Rose comes highly recommended !
Just bought it!
The only copy of the Alice film I can find to buy is £217.19 so I think it's fair to say I will be checking out the youtube version Posts: 4057 | From: uk | Registered: May 2007 | Site Updates: 0
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Hey, i found a Youtube video of someone who shows the Dutch Jean Rollin collector's editions i mentioned in my earlier post. It's a nice clip, and it'll give a good impression of these editions.
Eventhough i bought all of these titles again when they came out on the Redemption blu-rays, these Dutch dvd editions still retain their value for collectors.
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Nice editions without a doubt and they look like euro art films which in a way they are. But i also like the artwork on the scandi editions very much.
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"A top secret government experiment leads to fatal barracuda attacks on the beaches of a small coastal town formerly renowned for its lobster. A marine biologist (Wayne Crawford) and sheriff (William Kerwin) uncover a plot involving a mentally unstable former war-medic (Evers) pioneering research into hyperglycemia and the effect on human behavior." (Wiki)
Fun nature strikes back flick which is more Piranha than Jaws. The plot quickly forgets the deadly fish when the second part starts and we can see more cloak & dagger style thriller till the end. And what an ending it is, the 70s once again shows that the world is a dark and cold place.
The movie is too slow plus it includes very little blood and no nudity at all, so it´s far from a masterpiece but i still enjoyed watching it.
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And since we're talking about French surrealist cinema..
The British Film Institute released this lovely box-set around the same time as Arrow did their Borowczyk box.
Very adventurous box sets, and among my personal favorite cult releases.. ever ! Simple as that ! Posts: 2176 | From: The Netherlands | Registered: Jun 2011 | Site Updates: 0
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quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: The movie is too slow plus it includes very little blood and no nudity at all, so it´s far from a masterpiece but i still enjoyed watching it.
Lovely artwork though !
By the way, a Wayne Crawford interview can be found on the God's Bloody Acre dvd, released by Code Red.
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quote:Originally posted by Crash: Franco, Rollin...anyone want to start a fight about Walerian Borowczyk? ROFL
I'm like who, but when I look him up I see I have a few of his films in my watchlist on letterboxd lol
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The Beast was good, i also own Immoral Tales and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne but yeah, you know the rest...
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See that, Helen. You had taste and class even if you didn't initially know it. ROFLMAO
Borowczyk was a singular and bizarre talent. Obviously, he had filmmaking skills, more than Franco and Rollin, but I think that his heart's desire was to apply them to his favorite subject, pornography. Hence, he did these weird porn films that look like art films or art films with porno scenes, I'm not sure which. Like Franco and Rollin, he's pretty far off the beaten mainstream path for most folks, but his stuff is certainly interesting.
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Eegah! (1962) starring Arch Hall Sr., Arch Hall Jr., Marilyn Manning and Richard Kiel.
Usual fare - dolly bird driving through the desert nearly crashes into giant caveman character. Dolly bird's boyfriend (a terrible wannabe popstar) and her father go to hunt him down, the caveman captures the dolly bird and the father, and before the conclusion, she undergoes some kind of Stockholm Syndrome and starts to care for him, to no avail.
Yeah, it sounds pretty crappy. and in truth, it IS pretty crappy. But does it deserve it's place at number 48 on IMDB's all-time worst movies? Well..... yes, probably. But it's a bit of a mix, to be honest.
Arch Hall Jr. is utterly terrible as Tom, the apparent 'hero', with his abysmal acting, his excremental singing, and his godawful hairstyle. If you needed evidence of just how far Daddy would go to try and give his son the career he so richly didn't deserve, this is it.
Arch Hall Sr. is pretty underused on screen, but seeing as he was also director, producer, story writer, financier, and provided access to many of the non-desert locations, I guess it's a mercy he didn't do much on screen.
Marilyn Manning went on to have just three roles in all, and she really couldn't have harmed her fledgling career any more terminally than to have appeared in this shocker.
And now we come to the interesting bit. Richard Kiel's performance of Eegar is actually not that bad. For someone who was cast basically for his seven-foot-plus-change frame, he showed the mark of a good actor by making the most of his role, and manages to win over the audience with some pathos and humour.
I'm still duty bound to give this a maximum of 4/10, but Kiel earns at least three of those points.
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Borowczyk also did Behind Covent Walls (1978), probably the "art-iest" of the nunsploitation flicks. Currently it's available on dvd from the Cult Epics label, but i certainly do hope Arrow gets to work their magic on this title as well, at some point.
It's another Euro-cult classic, and at some point banned in the UK, i believe. Great movie though !
No one familiar with Alain Robbe-Grillet ? Besides the six films included in that BFI box-set, i also own La Belle Captive (1983) on blu-ray and Gradiva (2006) on dvd, which was released by Mondo Macabro some years ago.
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I watched The Iron Rose. Pure filth! Interesting, if a little too artsy and self-indulgent for my liking.
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