Set one of three from Requiem for a Vampire. The above pics will take you to my Zooomr account. If you prefer to access these through Photobucket please follow this link.

Here is the last set of Thrill of the Vampires wallpapers. I will be concluding my look at the film throughout this week.

The entrancing work of cinematographer Jean-Jacques Renon is one of French Cinema's best kept secrets. While many of the film's he photographed and lit in his near two decade career have vanished into obscurity, his work with Jean Rollin will live forever. I will be posting more on Renon in the future as he shot several of Rollin's greatest films, for this post though I am just presenting some stills from Thrill of the Vampires ...

Encore's splendid special edition of Thrill of The Vampires,as well as the book Virgins and Vampires, has many terrific behind the scenes shots of Jean Rollin creating his first masterpiece. Here are a few of my favorites:

It is impossible to imagine Thrill of the Vampires without the astonishing score by Acanthus. Simultaneously sloppy and majestic and containing the kind of ambition that perhaps only an inexperienced group of teenagers could possess, the music for Jean Rollin's third film is just unforgettable. The soundtrack can currently be heard on the great but sadly out of print The Films of Jean Rollin CD, as well as on the slideshow section of Encore's Le ...