EXPULSION OF THE DEVIL
Quite a few haunted house clichés are utilized in this slow moving French-made effort by Juan Luis Bunuel. A seeming inspiration on POLTERGEIST, the film has a few good things, but not enough to make for a worthwhile product.
SOMBRE
A product of the “New French Extremity” by director Philippe Grandrieux, who provides a highly artful and immersive account of a serial killer loose on the back roads of France
J’ACCUSE! (1937)
A French anti-war “classic” notable for its horrific climax
J’ACCUSE! (1919)
This silent epic can accurately be termed the screen’s first zombie mash
GRAPES OF DEATH
From Jean Rollin, France’s foremost horrormeister, a somewhat derivative yet undeniably artful zombie mash that really delivers the gore groceries
GOLDEN NIGHT
If Dario Argento were to remake THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO the results would likely play very much like this deliriously odd French thriller from the seventies
GAME OVER
This is the scary inverse of HOME ALONE, a French thriller that replaces the former film’s family-friendly pukiness with darkness and perversity
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
This is one of the first-ever adaptations of Edgar Allen Poe’s classic tale “The Fall of the House of Usher” and still among the most interesting
LES COUSINES
Don’t let this 1970 film’s refined surface fool you, as it’s just as trashy, amoral and exploitive as any of the more skuzzy offerings of the grindhouse era
TWO ORPHAN VAMPIRES
This, the late Jean Rollin’s “triumphant return” to the type of seventies-era vampire cinema that made his name, appeared in 1997. It’s hardly triumphant