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Visions of Ecstasy
| Director | Nigel Wingrove |
| Year | 1989 |
| Run Time | 19 minutes |
| Visions of Ecstasy, a short, 19 minute, experimental art film made in 1989, is the only film ever to have been banned outright in the UK solely on the grounds of blasphemy. Further its depiction and interpretations of the erotic imaginings of the 16th Century Carmelite nun, St. Teresa, were such that the films banning was upheld in an historic judgement at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in a case that took seven years to reach its conclusion. Now, due to the abolition of the UK’s blasphemy law in 2008, Visions of Ecstasy is finally being released. | |
The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine
| Director | Jean Rollin |
| Year | 1973 |
| Run Time | 79 minutes |
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Best known for his erotic horror films, such as The Rape of the Vampire, Lips of Blood, and The Living Dead Girl, French filmmaker Jean Rollin frequently indulged in the softcore (and occasionally hardcore) sex film. Among the more personal of these films is SCHOOLGIRL HITCHHIKERS (Jeunes filles impudiques), which reflects many of the themes and fascinations that run through his esoteric body of work.
Joëlle Coeur (Rollin’s Demoniacs) and Gilda Arancio star as a pair of lovers enjoying a blissful cross-country hike. But the carefree erotic film turns suddenly dark when the women are set upon by a band of thieves who think they have stolen their loot, and use sadistic means to force a confession.
Please Note: This film periodically suffers from an unstable image, due to a camera malfunction during the original production.
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Schoolgirl Hitchhikers
| Director | Jean Rollin |
| Year | 1973 |
| Run Time | 79 minutes |
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Joëlle Coeur (Rollin’s Demoniacs) and Gilda Arancio star as a pair of lovers enjoying a blissful cross-country hike. But the carefree erotic film turns suddenly dark when the women are set upon by a band of thieves who think they have stolen their loot, and use sadistic means to force a confession.
Best known for his erotic horror films, such as The Rape of the Vampire,Lips of Blood, and The Living Dead Girl, French filmmaker Jean Rollinfrequently indulged in the softcore (and occasionally hardcore) sex film. Among the more personal of these films is SCHOOLGIRL HITCHHIKERS(Jeunes filles impudiques), which reflects many of the themes and fascinationsthat run through his esoteric body of work. Please Note: This film periodically suffers from an unstable image, due to a camera malfunction during the original production.
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The Demoniacs
| Director | Jean Rollin |
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| The story follows two young girls, the survivors of a ship-wreck, who are raped and beaten by a band of pirate-like cut throats. Left for dead, the girls, who are sexually empowered by a supernatural being hidden in nearby ruins, re-emerge to seek their wrathful vengeance upon their predators. Violently sexual and imbued with French surrealism, Rollin’s film is not for the faint-hearted!
Erotic yet elegiac, tragic and dreamy, Demoniacs is rightly upheld as a Rollin fan favorite. |
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The Marquis De Sade’s Justine
| Director | Chris Boger |
| Year | 1977 |
| Run Time | 97 |
| Based on the Marquis de Sade’s 1791 novel Justine: The Misfortunes of Virtue, Chris Boger’s visually sumptuous film is a dark tale of sexual depravity and Sadean excess. Royal plaything koo Stark stars as a virtuous innocent whose chosen path of goodness is thwarted as every turn by her cunning and amoral sister, Juliette (Lydia Lisle), whose debauched lifestyle is her only happiness. |
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JUSTINE is the first feature film credit of cinematographer Roger Deakins, who later shot such modern American classics as The Shawshank Redemption, O Brother, Where Art Thou?and No Country for Old Men.
The Nude Vampire
| Director | Jean Rollin |
| Year | 1970 |
| Run Time | 80 |
| Wealthy industrialist Georges Radamante (Maurice Lemaitre) has dreams of immortality. Not through his own achievements, but by finding a way to share the biochemistry of the mute, orphaned vampire woman (Caroline Cartier) who has been raised by hooded needle-stickers in isolation, deprived of exposure to human faces.
Radamante’s son Pierre (Olivier Martin, Rollin’s real-ilfe brother) innocently complicates matters while trying to infiltrate his father’s private club. It is love at first sight and Pierre determines to liberate his beloved, a gaol which attracts the companionship of other vampires, who plan a torch-carrying siege of Radamante’s palatial compound. |
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The Living Dead Girl
| Director | Jean Rollin |
| Year | 1982 |
| Run Time | 89 |
| THE LIVING DEAD GIRL (La Morte Vivante) is the story of Catherine Valmont (Françoise Blanchard), a wealthy heiress dead before her time, who is accidentally reanimated when some unfortunate movers attempt to store drums of chemical waste in the neglected burial vaults below her uninhabited chateau. Rollin’s “living dead girl” does everything that cinematic convention requires – she kills people, drinks human blood, devours human flesh – yet for all this, we accept her as an innocent. Meanwhile the effect that her resurrection has upon her childhood friend, Hélene (Marina Pierro), is infinitely more conscious, deliberate, and evil. | |
I am the Ripper
| Director | Eric Anderson |
| Year | 2003 |
| Run Time | 85 |
| Taking violence to a whole new level, I am The Ripper explodes out of the screen like The Matrix on crack! Fast, furious and relentless, the Ripper is death himself, let loose on a party of teenagers. The sole survivor is then challenged to a duel to the death in order to live… | |
The Rape of the Vampire
| Director | Jean Rollin/td> |
| Year | 1968 |
| Run Time | 95 |
| A psychiatrist (Bernard Letrou) ventures to a remote castle to convince a brood of four vampire sisters that they are misguided, brainwashed by superstitious villagers, and not truly creatures of the supernatural. The villagers (including director Jean Rollin) confuse and abuse the sisters, before finally storming their castle. The cast descends on a hospital run by a young doctor (Jean-Loup Philippe), charged by the Queen of the Vampires (Jacqueline Sieger) to discover a cure for vampirism. This bewildering action culminates in a ‘blood wedding’ presided over by Sieger, in her regal hot pants, on the legendary stage of the now-defunct Theâtre du Grand Guignol. | |
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