INDICATOR is proud to present the first entries in a series of 4K restorations of the films of one of European genre cinema’s most distinctive and revered voices, the inimitable Jean Rollin. First, they present 1971’s THE SHIVER OF THE VAMPIRES (Le Frisson des vampires). Blending horror, eroticism, fairy tale, and surrealism to create a…
Browsing: Jean Rollin
ARROW have released Dima Ballin & Kat Ellinger’s acclaimed documentary Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World Of Jean Rollin, to its subscription-based platform available to subscribers in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland. Has there been a genre artist more fundamentally misunderstood and inappropriately discussed than Jean Rollin? He…
ORCHESTRATOR OF STORMS: THE FANTASTIQUE WORLD OF JEAN ROLLIN **** USA 2022 Dir: Kat Ellinger, Dima Ballin. 113 mins Narrated by Ayvianna Snow and with Benoit Carry voicing the words of the late filmmaker himself, this enthralling feature documentary adeptly captures the influences, passion and struggles of beloved French director…
DAWN BREAKS BEHIND THE EYES *** Germany 2021 Dir: Kevin Kopacka. 73 mins Austrian-Sri-Lankan filmmaker / artist Kevin Kopacka’s second feature – after 2020’s HAGER – is a disorientating, multi-layered Gothic tale of entrapment that toys with everything from the Eastmancolor atmosphere of Mario Bava’s classic horror films and the…
ZOMBIE LAKE (a.k.a. Le Lac Des Morts Vivants) ** France 1981 Dir: Jean Rollin 90 mins The 1980’s was the decade that brought us truly brilliant zombie movies, many of which became cult classics and brought on countless remakes/sequels and influenced many of the zombie movies we enjoy today. Zombie…