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The Runaways
RELEASED OUT NOW! 1972/1981 | 18 | Blu-ray Cast Marie-Pierre Castel, Mireille Dargent, Laurence Dubas, Christiane Coppé
These impressive new
restorations showcase two films that share a certain sisterhood in the Rollin canon.
Requiem For A Vampire
finds two fugitive, gun-toting girls encountering the undead in rural France. Clashing the gothic with the groovy, it’s an atmospheric but rather shapeless affair, an almost dialogue-free, backstory-bereft fairy tale that seems to run on pure dream logic. Or maybe wet dream logic, given the industrial amounts of nudity involved. Exploitation elements aside, it offers some intriguing twists on vampire lore, and for all its slack pacing it’s a heady, entertaining watch, with some striking imagery.