THE IRON ROSE

released OUT NOW! 1973 | 15 | Blu-ray

Blu-Ray deBut Lacking his usual sexy vampires, this effort by cult French director Jean Rollin has an improvisatory feeling. Inspired by an incident while location scouting, it follows two lovers trapped in a cemetery, unable to find the exit (shades of Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel).

Featuring surrealist touches (like a circus clown mourner), gnomic dialogue and much canoodling in crypts, it’s by turns poetic and erotic, boring and baffling. Quintessentialy Rollin.

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