"Director: Jean Rollin"

• Fascination | Blu Ray | (26/02/2018) from £16.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  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

• Lips of Blood (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (09/04/2018) from £10.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the most personal of Jean Rollin's moody, erotic horror films, a man tries to solve the riddle of a vague childhood memory, which leads him in pursuit of a beautiful vampire, and the revelation of a horrible family curse.

• Requiem for a Vampire (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (21/05/2018) from £10.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  On the run from a reform school, two young women end up trapped in a haunted castle ruled by a hoard of sexy, blood crazed vampires and their leader, an evil immortal creature who is the last of his kind. Seeking to reproduce his race, he preys on his innocent victims. In order to achieve his goal of immortality, however, the women must remain virgins.

• The Nude Vampire (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (17/07/2018) from £10.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A surreal blend of horror, espionage, and erotica, The Nude Vampire follows the son of a wealthy businessman as he is lured into a secret cult that is conducting experiments on a captive mute female vampire.

• The Living Dead Girl (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (26/06/2018) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When an earthquake and a toxic waste spill disturbs her grave, a deceased girl comes alive to walk the earth again in French filmmaker Jean Rollin's macabre tale of zombie carnage. After rising from her tomb, Catherine hungers for flesh and blood and sets out to find childhood friend and blood sister Helene. Helene decides to help satisfy Catherine's bloodlust by luring people into their lair.

• The Shiver of the Vampires | DVD | (27/01/2007) from £9.61   |  Saving you £5.38 (55.98%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A young couple on their honeymoon stop for the night at an ancient castle. Unbeknownst to them the castle is home to a horde of vampires who have their own deadly decadent plans for the couple...

• Schoolgirl Hitchhikers | Blu Ray | (06/11/2017) from £8.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  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. Joelle Coeur (Rollin's THE 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.

• Lips Of Blood | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £11.70   |  Saving you £6.28 (72.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  There's no director like Jean Rollin, the French horror fantasist who mixes the poetry of Jean Cocteau with the emotionless performances of Robert Bresson in his erotic vampire films. Lips of Blood is one of his best, an Oedipal tale of a young man haunted by visions of a forgotten childhood when he spies a poster of a coastal castle at a party. Jean-Louis Philippe, a hopelessly bland and flat performer, wanders through the deserted piazzas and fountains of his suddenly odd and alien hometown, eerily lit up in the dead of night. He's a man lost in a world where a woman in white silently materialises like a supernatural muse, gunmen appear from the inky-black night, and four naked vampire girls prowl the streets for blood and watch over him like dark angels. It's a tale of blood, sex, and haunting desire full of nudity and death and told in an austere, surreal style born of forced budgetary austerity. Rollin is slipshod with his action scenes and stiff with performers, but once he leaves the confines of the "real" world (where he's oddly uncomfortable) his style creates a trancelike mood to complement the beauty of his poetically macabre vision. The film our hero watches early in the picture is Rollin's own Shiver of the Vampires. --Sean Axmaker

• The Shiver of the Vampire (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (06/08/2018) from £10.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  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 have been recruited into the ranks of the undead.

• The Rape of the Vampire (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (14/05/2018) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Four beautiful French women, who are led to believe they are vampires, are being held up in a seaside chateau. One by one, they are meticulously murdered by the nervous and unsure townsfolk until they are resurrected from the dead and joined by 'The Queen of the Vampires'. Part of a trilogy that also includes 'Requiem for a Vampire' and 'The Shiver of the Vampires.

• The Grapes of Death (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (30/04/2018) from £10.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The wine produced for the village's annual Grape Harvest Festival has been polluted by a vicious pesticide, leaving all but a few attendees alive. The dead walk again in a zombie state, killing those that remain. The fight for survival begins.

• The Iron Rose | Blu Ray | (06/11/2017) from £10.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A pair of lovers have a tryst in a vacant tomb, but then find themselves unable to escape form the graves and crypts of the massive cemetery. One of cult director Jean Rollin's most unconventional film, THE IRON ROSE vividly depicts the young couple's steady descent into madness.

• The Night of the Hunted | Blu Ray | (05/03/2018) from £10.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Stylish, futuristically surreal and a departure from director Jean Rollin's familiar vampire territory, The Night of the Hunted is Rollin's contribution the excess of the 1980's horror genre, complete with plenty of sex and gore. In the not-so-distant future, the residents of a skyscraper asylum are suffering with insanity and collective amnesia. As blank-eyed inmates wander the halls and empty rooms of the Black Tower , the tension rises. As does the body count!

• Schoolgirl Hitchhikers | DVD | (16/06/2014) from £9.45   |  Saving you £3.54 (37.46%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two lesbian girls Joëlle Coeur (The Demoniacs) and Gilda Arancio (Tender and Perverse Emanuelle) set off hiking through the countryside and finding what they assume is an empty house break in for the night with disastrous results. Captured by a gang of thieves who think that the girls have stolen their loot the girls are abused to force a confession. Encouraged by the popularity of the sex scenes in his horror films Jean Rollin began to experiment with a series of sexploitation movies using the pseudonym Michel Gentil. Schoolgirl Hitchhikers was the first of many and for years was almost impossible to see.

• Dracula's Fiancée | Blu Ray | (13/05/2019) from £9.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  While searching for the earthly remains of Count Dracula, a professor an his young assistant are thrown into a surreal parallel universe of darkness and decay when they encounter supernatural creatures- a jester and his vampire lover, a she-wolf, sorcerers and a sensuous baby-eating ogress! Ultimately, the professor's quest leads him to confrontation with the beautiful but evil Isabelle who has the power to decide his fate!

• The Demoniacs | DVD | (24/08/2015) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Sadistic horror directed by Jean Rollin. A gang of pirates kidnap, rape and murder two young girls. The spirits of the two girls make a pact with the devil to avenge themselves on the pirates, and then begin a bloody and protracted quest to murder their killers.

• Zombie Lake | DVD | (20/03/2017) from £8.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In a small lakeside town in the French countryside, young women are disappearing without a trace. A Parisian reporter begins to uncover the deadly secrets of the 'lake of ghosts' and the dead, green Nazis who are aroused to action.

• Zombie Lake | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £4.03   |  Saving you £5.96 (147.89%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In a small lakeside town in the heart of the French countryside young women are disappearing without trace. Superstitious locals blame the 'Lake Of Ghosts' but the town's Mayor (Howard Vernon) seems reluctant or powerless to take any action. When the body of a girl is found with her throat ripped out a parisian reporter begins to uncover the deadly secrets of the lake and the undead Nazis who are aroused to action...

• The Demoniacs | Blu Ray | (05/02/2018) from £10.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A group of shipwrecked sailors brutally rape two young women who accidentally stumble across them. After they escape, the women ultimately make a deal with the devil in exchange for the power to exact their bloody revenge. Contains footage not included in the original theatrical release.

• Night Of The Hunted | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A young girl (Brigitte Lahaie) attempts to escape from the confines of a cold stark building in which the inhabitants seem to be suffering from a collective amnesia and insanity en mass. Far removed from Rollin's repertoire of vampiric imagery this surreal film with stark scenes of often violent sex and sadism leaves the viewer with lingering often unforgettable imagery.