It's always hard to wake up to such terrible news. Jean Rollin is dead. RIP. He's left us. I'm sure he would tell us that it was his time and that he finally would step into that unknown realm that so many of his character has lived. But when a real poet die, when a real master of storytelling leaves us alone... it's just hard to accept.
The first movie I saw of Jean Rollin was The Living Dead Girl, and it's still my personal favorite together with Grapes of Death. I always loved with he spiced up his graveyard stories with some extreme gore - but it never became tasteless or silly, just as poetic as the rest of the movie.
I think we all can agree that he was one of the most important genre directors in Europe, one of the finest ever from France. He surely will be missed...
But you know, for all us fans over the world, he still will be The Living Dead Director - for his art lives on and I'm sure it will find new fans for years to come.
Thanks Jean, for all the poetry...
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Another horror icon is gone. It's so sad... I'm just glad that in the last years of his life he's finally enjoyed the well-deserved respect from all over the world.
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