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"Levres de sang", from Tuna
Tuna's comments: La Nuit
des Traquees (Night of the Hunted) is possibly
Jean Rollin's lowest budget film. The location
was a Paris office building after hours, the cast
was primarily porn stars and amateurs, and
shooting was finished in two weeks. It is widely
considered his worst effort. First, it has
nothing to do with Vampires. Second, there are no
Gothic settings. In short, it is not what his
fans expect of him. I believe there is an
additional reason. In the past, only very poor
quality tapes of this film were available. The
Redemption folks borrowed Rollin's original
internegs, ultrasonically cleaned them,
transferred to digital, then applied additional
noise filtering. This resulted in the cleanest
version of this film ever made. In addition, the
Redemption edition contains several minutes of
additional footage that didn't make it into the
original release. The additional footage in
nearly hardcore. I think this makes Night of the
Hunted a watchable film.
IMHO, we owe the folks
at Redemption a huge thanks for bringing this
obscure European Horror material to region 1 DVD,
and doing it so well. This will be my last Rollin
for a while. I have been through everything
currently available on DVD. There are several
additional releases upcoming from Redemption, but
dates have not been announced. In researching
actresses for this project, I discovered an
official Jean Rollin Web site at
http://www.shockingimages.com/rollin/. It
includes a fascinating interview with Rollin. I
was pleased to see that he is again making films.
La Nuit des Traquees is
a psychological suspense/drama with just a touch
of horror. The scissors in the eyes scene
(Unknown2) is the most gruesome, and probably the
best-known from this film. The story is about a
motorist who encounters a woman screaming for
help on a deserted road. As he drives away, he
notices another woman -- this one nude. He takes
the girl to his apartment, and discovers that she
has a complete loss of memory. In fact her memory
of things that happen disappears almost
immediately. He finds almost instant rapport with
her, and they end up having sex. Since the woman
is Brigitte Lahaie, this is a treat for both us
and him. He leaves for work the next day, and she
is found and returned to "the black
tower," which is a strange asylum. All of
the patients have the same memory problems, and
many have trouble with motor skills as well. Some
have anxiety attacks and become violent. Any more
of the plot would be a spoiler, and I found
enough suspense in this film to hold my interest.
I am not a huge horror
fan, so it is not the vampires that appeal to me
in Rollin's work. I enjoyed this from a plot
standpoint more than any of the other of his
films I have seen. Even though he is not shooting
vampires and castles, his sense of framing, color
and lighting is still evident. Although Brigitte
is a porn star, she is a very good actress. The
other acting was surprisingly good for amateurs.
I wish Rollin would have had a huge budget for
this one -- it could have been an even better
film -- but I liked it anyway. There are a total
of 60 images from this film, but there could have
been many more. Only one has no nudity (I forget
which).
thumbnails, part 1
thumbnails, part 2
thumbnails, part 3
Nathalie Perrey (1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10, 11, 12, 13, 14) Brigitte Lahaie (1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17) Dominique Journet (1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6)
Unknown #1 (1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10, 11) Unknown #2 (1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10, 11, 12)
New from GR
Cynthia
Nixon: "Sex in the City" Jaid
Barrymore in "The Last Days of Disco"
Jane
march in "The Lover"
New from
Stone Cold
Scoop, continuing with Sleuth.
(www.csleuth.com)
Three
of Jenny Shimizu. Jenny
Shimizu. Jenny
Shimizu. Ione Skye.
I don't think this picture has ever appeared
before he published it, has it? Anne
Parrilaud in "Patricia: un voyage pour
l'amour". Anne
Parrilaud in "Patricia: un voyage pour
l'amour". Drew
Barrymore and a Sumo. Drew on the left, with
the smaller guns. Tammy Parks.
Madonna.
Kira Reed.
Marianne
Morris. According to Sleuth, these are rare
pictures, not from the movie
"Vampyres". Sleuth had some
"Vampyres" pics, but
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