About this episode
For Halloween season, John and Samm are taking a break from Hong Kong to visit the autumnal cemeteries and crumbling castles of France. We discuss the career of French fantastique director Jean Rollin, broadly covering his vampire films and key tropes before plunging into his work as a director of soft and hardcore sex films. Rollin was often forced to take on these kinds of work for hire projects to make a living as a director, so we also talk a lot about the limitations that shaped his career, what was going on with European cinema at the time, trends in horror and erotic films, etc. We also get a bit, er, loose in this episode, so fasten your seatbelts and enjoy the phantasmagorical ride! If you’re in or around Chicago, John is screening Rollin films every week this month at the Alamo for Terror Tuesday . Thanks for listing and please follow Samm and John over at Patreon for more!