They have sex and the next morning Robert leaves for work, leaving Elizabeth defenceless when Dr Francis (Bernard Papineau) breaks into his apartment and persuades Elizabeth to return to the clinic she escaped from. He takes the woman, Elizabeth (Brigitte Lahaie), home with him and learns that she’s an amnesiac, unable to remember anything for more than a few minutes. Romero inspired zombie film Les raisins de la mort/The Grapes of Death which was a marked departure from the dreamy surrealism of his vampire films (it is generally regarded to be France’s first gore film) and which marked his first collaboration with the French porn star Brigitte Lahaie who stayed with him for both Fascination (1979) and this atypical dalliance with a sort of science fiction.ĭriving home one night, Robert (Vincent Gardère) almost runs over a woman clad in a nightdress fleeing from unseen pursuers. After the box office failings of the non-vampire Gothic La rose de fer (1973) and Lèvres de sang (1975) he was forced back int pornography, a genre he’d flirted with briefly before and over the course of the next year or so he made seven hardcore sex films under the pseudonym Michel Gentil. In recent years he’d been branching out, mostly due to the fact that financing for his trademark films was getting harder to come by. By 1980, Jean Rollin was a very long way from the erotic, surreal lesbian vampire films that had made his name just a few years before.
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