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From their "Hammer's House of Horror" screenings to their 21-movie Mario Bava spotlight, New York's Quad Cinema has been an essential source for celebrating the horror genre's past, and they will continue to do just that this October with a massive retrospective series celebrating filmmaker Jean Rollin, as well as a complementary set of screenings highlighting some of horror's most memorable female vampires.

Read on for full details on Quad Cinema's Jean Rollin Retrospective (kicking off on October 18th) and "A Woman's Bite: Cinema’s Sapphic Vampires" (beginning October 26th) and be sure to visit their official website for more information!

"Jean Rollin Retrospective + Sapphic Vampires

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This October the Quad salutes the lurid eroticism of Jean Rollin with a retrospective including Fascination, Requiem for a Vampire, and Lips of Blood

Plus a survey of sapphic vampire films indebted to his aesthetic with titles including The Hunger, Lust for a Vampire,...

Over 20 years after helming an episode of America’s Most Wanted -- yes, that long-running docuseries hosted by John Walsh -- director Greg Yaitanes is back in the true crime world following his transition into prestige TV with House, Grey’s Anatomy, Lost and most recently, Cinemax’s Banshee and Quarry. Now, he’s the showrunner of Discovery Channel’s anticipated new anthology series, Manhunt, which debuts its first season, Unabomber, on Tuesday, Aug. 1.

The first season follows FBI agent and criminal profiler James “Fitz” Fitzgerald (Sam Worthington) as he pioneers new forensic linguistics to find and ultimately capture Ted Kaczynski (Paul Bettany), the nation’s deadliest serial bomber in history. The 8-episode series written by Andrew Sodroski (scribe of Holland, Michigan, which topped Hollywood’s 2013 Black List) offers a perspective of the FBI’s hunt not often seen.

More: Jane Lynch Transforms Into Janet Reno on Discovery's 'Manhunt: Unabomber'

“I had no idea Jim Fitzgerald...

Led by House Of Psychotic Women author Kier-La Janisse, over the past few years Canada’s Spectacular Optical press has done outstanding work putting personal perspectives on under-explored areas of pop-culture history in books like Kid Power! and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia In The 1980s. Now, the company is in the midst of an Indiegogo campaign for its newest project, Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema Of Jean Rollin. Written entirely by women critics, scholars,and historians, the book re-examines the work of French filmmaker Jean Rollin, best known for his 1970s vampire films like Fascination and The Demoniacs, through a feminist lens.

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Edited by Diaboloque’s Samm Deighan, the book explores Rollin’s directorial signatures, like “overwhelmingly female protagonists, his use of horror genre and exploitation tropes, his reinterpretations of the fairy tale and fantastique, [and] the influence of crime serials, Gothic literature and the occult,” according...

The era of cinema referred to as Eurohorror is defined by its eroticism, over-the-top violence, and psychedelic supernatural approaches to storytelling. It’s a rabbit hole of movie culture. There are twisting avenues and bizarre subsections that seem endless, but few filmmakers created a library as compulsively watchable and weirdly hypnotizing as Jean Rollin’s. This man’s filmography is massive, a good amount of them representing his work-for-hire hardcore movies and the cheesier selection of horror films. One gets what one might expect: waif-like young women seducing men, seducing each other, and drinking gallons of bright red blood.

Yet something sets Rollin’s films apart from similar offerings: they’re literate. Rollin draws many of his plots from classic Gothic romances. He must have adapted Carmilla in one form or another a dozen times. Sheridan Le Fanu’s story, about an innocent girl seduced by a lonely but evil companion,...

Since any New York cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.

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Throw on your suede and pastels and prepare for the music-filled, light-streaked “Dim All the Lights: Disco and the Movies.”

Nicolas Roeg‘s Roald Dahl adaptation, The Witches, plays on Saturday morning; a print of Abel Ferrara‘s King of New York screens throughout the weekend; Oscar Micheaux‘s Ten Minutes to Live shows this Sunday.

A retro groove, the Fascination font and plenty of orgasmic, bloody faces in throes of passion and passionate murder populate the latest tease for Kiss Of The Damned (the first being this gorgeous poster). The film, anticipating a SXSW U.S. premiere as well as a late March debut on VOD, is as much an often lovely recalling of the likes of Jean Rollin as it is a film about the difficulty of family and intense new love. It's a swooner for adults and fans of lush, macabre cinema.

Kiss Of The Damned stars Josephine de la Baume and Rubber's Roxanne Mesquida, and sees beautiful vampire Djuna (Baume) try to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo (Milo Ventimiglia), but eventually gives in to their passion. When her troublemaker sister Mimi (Mesquida) unexpectedly comes to visit, Djuna’s love story is threatened, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered.

A retro groove, the Fascination font and plenty of orgasmic, bloody faces in throes of passion and passionate murder populate the latest tease for Kiss Of The Damned (the first being this gorgeous poster). The film, anticipating a SXSW U.S. premiere as well as a late March debut on VOD, is as much an often lovely recalling of the likes of Jean Rollin as it is a film about the difficulty of family and intense new love. It's a swooner for adults and fans of lush, macabre cinema.

Kiss Of The Damned stars Josephine de la Baume and Rubber's Roxanne Mesquida, and sees beautiful vampire Djuna (Baume) try to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo (Milo Ventimiglia), but eventually gives in to their passion. When her troublemaker sister Mimi (Mesquida) unexpectedly comes to visit, Djuna’s love story is threatened, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered.

On the other side of my content filled posts for Sound on Sight, I manage a semi-popular Tumblr blog called Obscure and Offbeat Cinema. There is virtually no written content and the vast majority of what I present are screenshots taken from films that I’m watching or planning to watch. Though a popular film will sneak in now and then, the focus remains on films that are off the beaten path. With over 3000 images posted in 2012, I thought it would be interesting to single out my favourite shots seen for the first time this year and share them with you. This link is quite obviously unique to my own cinematic experience of 2012, as well as my own personal quirks and aesthetic obsessions, so you might not agree with all of the choices. I also warn, this list may not be Safe for Work and in the case of objectionable...

Jean Rollin "was a double outsider," argues Dave Kehr in the New York Times, "a filmmaker drawn to the fantastique in a country that had a limited tradition of genre filmmaking as well as a proud tradition of Cartesian rationalism that discouraged explorations of the supernatural. What France did offer, however, was a thriving interest in eroticism, and when Rollin was finally able to make his first feature, The Rape of the Vampire (1968), he did so by combining his childhood fascination with American cliffhanger serials and early-20th-century French fantasists like Gaston Leroux (author of The Phantom of the Opera) with gauzy nudes and exotic couplings." The British company Redemption is "collaborating with Kino International to release handsomely remastered Blu-rays, taken from the original camera negatives, of five key Rollin titles: The Nude Vampire (1970), The Shiver of the Vampires (1971), The Iron Rose (1973), Lips of Blood (1975) and Fascination (1979)."

"Entering Rollin's cinematic...

Tonight, on the eve of their debut to the general public, we wrap up our initial coverage of Kino/Redemption's Jean Rollin Blu-ray collection. The fifth and final film of this first wave is in some ways the perfect way to wrap up the set, as it revisits several recurring themes as well as embodying Rollin's spirit in an unusual way. Fascination is a very unusual film, but in all ways it is a work of Rollin, and recognizable from the word "go". Kino's treatment of these films has been top notch, and this later period Rollin survives in significantly better condition than the earlier films, which is nice to see. This also has probably the single best video based extra in the whole set, which...

Euro-sleaze fans rejoice! 2012 will bring a slew of remastered, restored films by Jean Rollin to blu-ray, thanks to Kino Lorber. The distribution company, led by director/producer Bret Wood, will release nearly a dozen classic films from the French filmmaker. For those who are not familiar, Rollin (who died in 2010) was best known for his 1960s and 1970s films that mix horror with soft-core sex. Starting in January, Kino Lorber will be releasing The Nude Vampire, The Shiver of the Vampires, The Iron Rose, Lips of Blood and Fascination, with another half-dozen titles to follow throughout the year. Get more info on the releases, along with some blu-ray stills (warning: images are Nsfw) after the jump. Wood spoke to Rollin...

Following rounds 1 and 2, this one will take us right on through the countdown to Halloween and will surely be the most actively updated of the bunch. Best to begin, then, by grounding it in a classic, so we turn to David Kalat: "Frankenstein isn't a science fiction story about an arrogant scientist who intrudes on God's domain, it's a metaphor about our relationship to God." That's his argument, and I'll let him explain, but I want to pull back to a couple of earlier sentences in his piece. Mary Shelley's novel, "and the 1910 film version, treated the 'science' of Frankenstein as just so much folderol, a MacGuffin to introduce the artificial man into the story. Whale was so good at providing a reasonably convincing visualization of reviving the dead — no, more than that, a stunningly satisfying visualization of reviving the dead — it focused popular attention on that part of...

Kino Lorber today announced their acquisition of Redemption Films' library of euro-horror classics for release in the Us.  This collection includes a treasure trove of Jean Rollin's most famous work, among those are The Nude Vampire, The Shiver of the Vampire, The Iron Rose, Lips of Blood, and Fascination.  The best part of this news is that all five of these films are scheduled to release on Blu-ray and DVD next spring from Kino, who have an overall outstanding record in high definition.The full press release is below, and it details some of the fantastic things we have to look forward to from this acquisition, including bonus material from the venerable Tim Lucas of Video Watchdog. Lucas is a veritable encyclopedia of euro-horror knowledge and...

Tremors? Nightbreed? Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat? 976-evil? Are all on the list this year. And though there were not huge horror wins in sound editing through screenplays, the Technical Awards never cease to bring out the horror veterans. Notably Tim Drnec who contributed to such VHS classics as Alien Seed, Destroyer, and Prison won for his work on “Spydercam 3D volumetric suspended cable camera technologies.” An award also shared with Ben Britten Smith and Matt Davis who both also worked on Constantine.

But among all the winners, the Academy also honored some great loses in 2010. And though they mentioned some of our heroes, Dennis Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2), Kevin McCarthy (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) and Dino de Laurentiis (King Kong), they did not mention Zelda Rubinstein or Corey Haim. But we will in this last section and the others lost to us last year.

So farewell fight fans and remember,...

Various sites (including Fangoria) are reporting that French horror filmmaker Jean Rollin has passed away at the age of 72. Rollin was the writer/director of over 50 erotic/horror films including titles like Two Orphan Vampires, Living Dead Girl, Fascination, Grapes of Death, Lips of Blood and The Nude Vampire. More below, including a collection of trailers. Unfortunately for Rollin, his work was never really elevated beyond the world of euro-sleaze which was the predominant style of horror entertainment being imported from overseas at the time. Movies that gratuitously displayed images of nudity, sex and violence meant to titillate, disturb and sell... nothing else. Rollin's work however is worth so much...

Okay, the titles Caged Virgins, The Nude Vampire, Two Orphan Vampires, and The Grapes Of Death might not be familiar to the casual movie fan, but followers of 70′s Eurosleaze are certainly familiar with the works of French horror director Jean Rollin who passed away yesterday at age 72. Many of Rollin’s films are available of the Redemption DVD label and without Rollin’s unique output, the history of the erotic vampire film would have huge gaps. Somewhere right now there’s a naked lesbian vampire weeping.

From the Fangoria Website:

Fangoria has learned of the passing of beloved French erotic-horror filmmaker Jean Rollin. The director died last night, after a long illness. He was 72.Fans of European genre films, especially those coming out of the free-thinking 1970s, are no doubt aware of the work of Rollin.a talented, gentle poet of sensual horror, a man who made personal, lush...

Personally speaking, one of the most exciting times to be a genre fan was in the late 90's/early 00's when DVD companies were opening the floodgates of Euro horror - unleashing more than a handful of forgotten gems to Stateside DVD. It was also when I first discovered the works of French filmmaker Jean Rollin, an auteur whose work I've really grown to admire over the last decade.

And while my adoration for Rollin is somewhat newfound, it doesn't make news of his passing any easier. Fangoria reports that the legendary horror surrealist has passed away after an extended illness at the age of 72. His legacy includes a canon of dreamlike works such as Night of the Hunted, Fascination, Lips of Blood, Requiem for a Vampire, The Living Dead Girl and the more "mainstream" zombie classic The Grapes of Death.

Rollin's work has always been inaccessible by even large...

The Final Girl: A Few Thoughts on Feminism and Horror By Donato Totaro

One of the more important, if not groundbreaking, accounts/recuperations of the horror film from a feminist perspective is the 1993 Carol Clover's "Men, Women, and Chainsaws". One of the book's major points concerns the structural positioning of what she calls the Final Girl in relation to spectatorship. While most theorists label the horror film as a male-driven/male-centered genre, Clover points out that in most horror films, especially the slasher film, the audience, male and female, is structurally 'forced' to identify with the resourceful young female (the Final Girl) who survives the serial attacker and usually ends the threat (until the sequel anyway.) So while the narratively dominant killer's subjective point of view may be male within the narrative,the male viewer is still rooting for the Final Girl to overcome the killer. We can see this...

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To say that Jean Rollin’s movies are an acquired taste is an understatement. Few directors have such a disdain for what most would regard as essential narrative.

Yet the man has his fair share of fans, for various reasons. Some praise the dreamlike quality of the cinematography, some admire the ambitious seriousness he brings to even the silliest stories.

And some just want an arthouse excuse to goggle at nude women of the seventies Eurotrash variety.

With the previous DVD out of print for some time, fans will be happy to know that a new edition Jean Rollin’s e(u)ro-horror-thriller “Fascination” was recently released.

Does the film deliver on the expected Rollin trademark weirdness and thrills?

Will this disc do the movie justice?

Read on…...

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