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 I caught Jean Rollin's The Iron Rose/La Rose de Fer on TCM last night and it creeped me out. It's a decent, emotionally manipulative psychological horror film with scant, if any, supernatural elements. It's pretty light on plot, never straying from its basic premise: a man and woman decide to stroll through a crumbling provincial cemetery on a date. They lose track of time while getting it on in a crypt, and when they emerge into the night they can't find their way out of the graveyard and they begin to unravel. It's a very darkly lit movie, with a ton of decay and overgrowth, giving off this feeling of abandonment. And the two characters go from being this attractive young French couple to straight up loathsome monsters in no time at all, forcing you to hate them (I think it was intentional, but I could be mistaken), which is pretty unpleasant. I wouldn't say it's a great movie, or even a really good representation of the genre, but it's definitely scary and worth a watch. NilkNarf fucked around with this message at 08:15 on Nov 13, 2011 |
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