French filmmaker Jean Rollin is the subject of the new documentary Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin in which several of his frequent collaborators celebrate his work and ...

When publisher Spectacular Optical got in touch to see if Dread Central would like to announce Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin, of course we jumped at the chance. The upcoming ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. French director Jean Rollin – infamous for his arty, sexy and bizarre vampire flicks – died last ...

Lips of Blood screens at the Music Box Theatre this Friday and Saturday at midnight. More than a considered style and set of themes, Rollin’s work projects a compelling pathology, at once obvious ...

Last month, our own Debi Moore reported on the upcoming release of Spectacular Optical’s upcoming book, Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin. The project, which has been edited by ...

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 ...

In May 1968, France was undergoing its second revolution as university students, all manner of workers, and the vanguards of the French New Wave (Godard, Truffaut, etc.) organized a general strike to ...

Who is Jean Rollin? A man who has spent his childhood in the middle of some of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. An artist who has worked with Marguerite Duras for his first film. A ...

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With the recent explosion in popularity of the European horror film (thanks primarily to DVD), mainstream American audiences are discovering what Euro-horror fans like yours truly have known all along ...