"Director: Jean Rollin"

• Virgin Among The Living Dead | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  London dweller Christina is called to a castle in a small village for the reading of her father's will. Soon after meeting her peculiar family her nights are filled with strange apparitions and supernatural happenings.

• Fascination | DVD | (24/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A pair of society women dressed in all their finery stand in the middle of an abattoir, animal carcasses hanging behind them and blood splashed across the floor. Giggling and fidgeting, they drink their prescribed glass of ox blood. The startling, unreal image of high-society manners in the midst of gore and death pitches Jean Rollin's 1979 feature Fascination into a turn-of-the-century culture come unhinged. When a well-dressed rogue, fleeing from angry partners he double-crossed, takes refuge in a lavish, moat-protected mansion, servant girls Franca Mai and Brigitte Lahaie cajole, tease and seduce him into staying for their night-time soiree. "You have stumbled into Elizabeth and Eva's life, the universe of madness and death", mutters one of them as they await the cabal where he is the guest of honour. Shot on a starvation budget and populated with stiff performers, Rollin's direction is arch and at times sloppy and his story never more than an outline. It's the mix of dreamy and nightmarish imagery that gives Fascination its fascination: blonde Lahaie stalking victims with a scythe, the bourgeois blood cult swarming over a fresh victim like wild animals, alabaster faces streaked in blood. While it lacks the delirious spontaneity of his earlier vampire films Shiver of the Vampires and Requiem for a Vampire, the languid pace and austere beauty creates an often-mesmerising fantasy. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Two Orphan Vampires | Blu Ray | (26/02/2018) from £10.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Director Jean Rollin proves he's the master of the sexy vampire movie genre with this cinematic version of his novel of the same name. Louise and Henrietta are two orphans who can't see; unbeknownst to everyone else, though, their sight does return... but only at night, when they roam the streets on the lookout for someone on which to feast.

• Requiem for a Vampire | DVD | (27/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Two women on the run seek shelter in an ominous castle where they fall prey to a sadistic vampire... With its dark cemetery a gallery of hooded skeletons bizarre rooms and slithery vaults the picture comes close to Lovecraft - except that its sexual components are more graphically presented. With long periods devoid of dialogue this is one of Jean Rollin's most lyrical films.

• Two Orphan Vampires | DVD | (21/09/2015) from £7.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Fascination | DVD | (26/08/2014) from £8.39   |  Saving you £4.60 (54.83%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A pair of society women dressed in all their finery stand in the middle of an abattoir, animal carcasses hanging behind them and blood splashed across the floor. Giggling and fidgeting, they drink their prescribed glass of ox blood. The startling, unreal image of high-society manners in the midst of gore and death pitches Jean Rollin's 1979 feature Fascination into a turn-of-the-century culture come unhinged. When a well-dressed rogue, fleeing from angry partners he double-crossed, takes refuge in a lavish, moat-protected mansion, servant girls Franca Mai and Brigitte Lahaie cajole, tease and seduce him into staying for their night-time soiree. "You have stumbled into Elizabeth and Eva's life, the universe of madness and death", mutters one of them as they await the cabal where he is the guest of honour. Shot on a starvation budget and populated with stiff performers, Rollin's direction is arch and at times sloppy and his story never more than an outline. It's the mix of dreamy and nightmarish imagery that gives Fascination its fascination: blonde Lahaie stalking victims with a scythe, the bourgeois blood cult swarming over a fresh victim like wild animals, alabaster faces streaked in blood. While it lacks the delirious spontaneity of his earlier vampire films Shiver of the Vampires and Requiem for a Vampire, the languid pace and austere beauty creates an often-mesmerising fantasy. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• The Grapes Of Death | DVD | (13/08/2018) from £7.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The grapes used to produce the wine for a village's annual Grape Harvest Festival has been polluted by toxic chemicals and induces a form on zombified insanity in the villagers who have drunk the wine. The victims' flesh also melts adding another layer of torment to their crazed suffering and madness. For director Jean Rollin Grapes of Death was a major departure from his usual dream-like vampire films in that he set out to frighten and horrify rather than to captivate and astound and he does so with great success.

• The Escapees | Blu Ray | (05/02/2018) from £12.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jean Rollin's The Escapees revisits the director's fascination with pairs of women who wander, dreamlike, through a modern dystopia. Two female patients one rebellious (Laurence Dubas), the other despondent (Christiane Coppé) flee the grounds of a mental hospital and drift across the French countryside. After finding refuge among a band of gypsy-like exotic dancers, they cross paths with a petty criminal (Marianne Valiot), an aging fortune-teller (Louise Dhour) and a quartet of swingers with sinister intentions.

• Lips of Blood | DVD | (11/02/2019) from £9.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When asked which of his own films was his favourite Jean Rollin would name Lips of Blood,which tells the tale of a young man haunted by a photograph of an old castle near a beach,whose name and whereabouts he can never remember, and a women in white whom he sees again and again. Eventually, he follows the woman in white to a cemetary where he unwittingly frees several female vampires who threaten to cause mayhem on the streets of Paris. Extras: Stills gallery including many from Rollin s private collection, Original trailer, Salvation trailers, interview with Jean Rollin by Dr Patricia MacCormack, Jean Rollin documentary Vampires and Virgins.

• Night of the Hunted | DVD | (29/09/2014) from £9.45   |  Saving you £3.54 (37.46%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Cult French director Jean Rollin's 1980 horror, replete with scenes of violent sex and sadism. The film tells of Elysabeth (Brigitte Lahaie), a young woman attempting to escape from the confines of a mysterious asylum where the inmates all seem to be suffering from collective amnesia. A recent nuclear spill has turned them into near-zombies, and they have been imprisoned to avoid spreading panic among the general public. Elysabeth and Veronique (Dominique Journet) steal a revolver and embark on a daring dash for freedom...

• The Mask of Medusa | DVD | (11/03/2019) from £11.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Le masque de la Méduse was, sadly,to be Jean Rollin s last film and was, strangely, very similar to his first, Le Viol du Vampire (1968), in that both were filmed as short features and then returned to by Rollin who filmed additional material to make an extension to the original film. Masque reinvents the legend with Medusa alive in the modern world, her memory gone she wonders from place to place and ends up at The Théatre du Grand-Guignol,the source of much inspration for Rollin in real-life. Here the film, fittingly perhaps, is part theatre and part cinema, but all Rollin. Surreal, dreamy, macabre, erotic and beautiful it is a fittingly creative end for one of cinema s most original directors. Extras: Stills gallery, original trailer, Salvation trailers, interview with Jean Rollin by Dr Patricia MacCormack, Jean Rollin documentary Vampires and Virgins.

• Grapes Of Death | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Jean Rollins' acclaimed cult horror film 'Grapes of Death' stars Brigitte Lahaie as a woman whose vacation takes a sick twist when she finds herself in a town full of zombie-like killers. She begins to think the town winery has got something to do with these evil transformations. Could the pesticides used on the grapes be responsible for all this madness?

• The Escapees | DVD | (09/02/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The escapees is aside from Rollin's adult title La Comtesse Ixe one of Rollin's most obscure and rare films having only ever been released on video in Canada and Turkey in miniscule numbers. This release marks both its DVD debut and the first time that it is being seen in its correct state as the master for this release was created from the original negative and supervised throughout its creation by Rollin himself. The film is at times brilliant and at others maddeningly frustrating as Rollin's story of two wayward girls on the run from an institution wanders from the fantastic to the farcical and back again. Written by Rollin and Jacques Ralf an associate brought in by the financiers The Escapees contains all the magic and fairytale qualities of films like Fascination and Requiem For A Vampire but somehow never quite reaches their brilliance. That said The Escapees has everything one expects from a Rollin film including two beautiful young women scenes of death burlesque shows in a junkyard and Brigitte Lahaie!

• Lost in New York | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £22.65   |  Saving you £-7.66 (-51.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Marseille France: artist and serial killer John Stephenson is found dead next to the body of his final victim. Stephenson leaves behind a legacy of ten gruesome murders and ten extraordinary paintings. However when more paintings begin to surface baring the unmistakable mark of the dead murderer art expert Oliver Davenport is asked by French police to assist their investigation. Set across France Thailand and the UK Nature Morte is a sophisticated and stylish psychological thriller.

• The Iron Rose | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This is one of Jean Rollin's rarest films available on DVD for the first time! Centered on a young couple who make love in an abandoned tome and find themselves trapped for the night among the graves and crypts of a massive cemetery the pair frantically try to escape the haunted grounds...

• Demoniacs | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £18.88   |  Saving you £-3.89 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Lured into shipwrecking their vessel and promptly murdered by a gang intent on stealing their cargo the spirits of the two murdered girls make a pact with the devil for revenge...

• The Naked Vampire | DVD | (31/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  While experimenting on a female vampire a mad doctor is stopped by his son who has fallen in love with her. The two flee to join a hidden vampire sect where they get their fill of beautiful women suicide rituals satanic masses erotic pleasures and sex....

• The Living Dead Girl | DVD | (03/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A toxic spill revives a beautiful dead heiress (Francoise Blanchard as a zombified Paris Hilton lookalike) who with the help of her childhood friend must quench her overpowering bloodlust. An unholy mix of sex zombies & vampires with a stunning & extremely gory finale'

• Two Orphan Vampires | DVD | (15/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Redemption: Two Orphan Vampires

• Sidewalks Of Bangkok | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Another interesting erotic horror/thriller from infamous French director Jean Rollin. Inspired by the 1930s classic The Mask Of Fu Manchu this is a rare departure for Rollin from his usual vampire-themed tales. Filmed on location in Paris Rolling mixes themes of adventure crime and mystery with comic book dialogue and throws in some sadistic sex for good measure.