“I knew it would be a commercial disaster, I knew it from the very beginning.”

My thoughts on Rollin’s divisive La Rose de Fer can be found here.

“I started shooting for my personal pleasure exclusively, since the others had rejected me.”

My first exposure to Rollin came in 1993, when Redemption released Requiem for a Vampire on VHS. I’ll have a review of this signature work up in the next week.

Edited to add, it can now be found here.

“I am your friend. I have things to tell you, to explain to you, to show you.”

My review of Le Frisson des Vampires, which I tend to think of as the first fully-formed Rollin, can be found here.

“For my second film, I really wanted to make something a little more temperate than Le Viol . . .”

My thoughts on Rollin’s second feature can be found here.

“He has freed the vampires. He’s a dangerous madman.”

My thoughts on Rollin’s divisive debut can be found here.