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
TROUBLE EVERY DAY
From France , a sexy, gruesome, wildly unconventional vampire movie
THEY CAME BACK
THEY CAME BACK, the directorial debut of Robin Campillo, eschews the flesh eating and intestine pulling of traditional living dead flicks in favor of a more surreal, even satirical approach
DON’T DELIVER US FROM EVIL
This film was banned in France for eight months, and wasn’t distributed in the U.S. until 35 years later. Now that this notorious work has finally been unveiled, the furor is revealed as much ado about very little
PSYCHEDELIC SEX VAMPIRES: JEAN ROLLIN CINEMA
In the absence of a comprehensive English language book (as of 2012, at least) on the French filmmaker Jean Rollin, this lavishly illustrated trifle will have to do
THE DEMON IS ON THE ISAND
Medium-strength French horror from the eighties that’s rather trashy and overwrought, but not entirely unaffecting
DEADLY RUN
A lackluster French thriller notable for its intriguing premise, bequeathed by Marc Behm’s stunning source novel, and an unforgettable performance by Isabelle Adjani
IRREVERSIBLE
An extraordinary piece of “shock art.” It seems curiously appropriate that, in the midst of the rabidly anti-French sentiment that saturated the US in the early 00s, this is the major French movie we got