Jean Rollin

His sets are kind of like every goth girl's dream, like a living situation.

I kind of, for me in a nutshell, Jean Rollin is for goth people who don't wear black all the time.

Um, so me, I mean, I do wear black most of the time, but, uh, but Jean Rolland, you know, he's not all style either.

He, uh, he's not all style and no substance.

You have, uh, Blood and Roses directed by Roger Vadim, uh, and then you have some of these other lesbian films that start coming out in the '60s and especially the '70s, uh, Vampiros Lesbos being one of 'em.

A lot of, uh, Jean Rollin's films as well, uh, Jean Rollin's, French.

I have a lot of opinions on Jean Rollin's films.

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Yeah, yeah.

So he's, like, a burglar.

He finds this, like, abandoned house.

Jean Rollin uses, like, the same really cool house with a moat in all of his movies.

If you've seen Borowczyk, or Boro as he's sometimes called, if you've seen any of his other films, you know that his films have a very sexual nature to them, and I can see how looking at any of his, these films through, through modern sensibilities, this could be seen as porn, but it's more on the erotic, erotic side and not, not pornographic.

Um, I think that when it comes to looking at any film with high sexual content, it's the question that should be asked is how, what is the intention and the purpose behind it? I mean, we've seen sexuality used by Pasolini, Jess Franco, Jean Rollin, where sexuality is used to convey different human emotions.

It's, it's, it's meant to show subjugation, vulnerability.

It's not just to, you know, uh, inflame the passions of the audience.

So a little bit of pre-production and some information to get us set up with this one.

So yeah, French filmmaker Jean Rollin wanted to make a traditional mystery thriller to appease his critics at the time.

But owing to his love of pulp series like Fantomas, he decided to instead make a film mixing eroticism, sci-fi and surrealism together.

And the end result was The Nude Vampire.

But if there was any, then I don't think they were the notable cast members.

So I've just gone with the filmmaker behind all this.

So Jean Rollin, who sadly died on the 15th of December 2010 at the age of 72.

He transformed low-budget horror into a distinct form of dreamlike poetry over the course of his career.

All the way up to, like, fucking modern era.

Plus it has two Jean Rollin films.

Wait, what?

It has his first film, which is Rape of the Vampire.