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Night of the Hunted.
A bloke driving down a lonely road nearly runs down a beautiful woman (Bridgette Lahie) concerned he takes her home, discovering she is an amnesiac who cannot form new memories. Eventually they have sex (because screwing some chick with amnesia is always a great idea) and discover the emotional attachment seems to help her remember. The bloke heads off to work and the amnesiac is soon apprehended by some sinister doctors and taken 'home' to the Black tower. It's a place where amnesiacs wander the halls aimlessly unsupervised and understandably pretty dangerous.
This is an unusual film for Rollin as it feels more like a sci-fi picture. It has overtones of J.G Ballard's high rise and uses its narrative to explore the importance of memories. I really found myself enjoying this one but it's only really recommended for Rollin fans.
Grapes of Death.
Rollins most accessible work, Grapes is his Zombie film, as a young woman off to meet her fiance is attacked on a train by a demented and disfigured man who has killed her friend. She pulls the emergency cord and legs it through the mist into the French countryside. As she makes her way to the vinyard where her fiance works she encounters more and more of the infected in a strange, sinister and dream like film that while more commercially minded than his previous works is still unmistakably a Jean Rollin film. Bridgette Lahie has a nice cameo in the film as a seemingly uninfected woman surviving in an infected village and the villagers zombie attack on the young woman counts as one of the most frightening sequences in any Jean Rollin film.
Crystal lake memories.
Book yourself a spare five hours for this little baby. THE last word on the Friday the 13th series it even includes discussions on the TV series! It made me appreciate the deeply flawed remake more than I had done. My main problem with the remake had been the appalling structure and pacing to the film which made it veer back and fourth from boring as hell to interesting and back. when you hear about the production problems these major flaws become more understandable.