1980
Night of the Hunted
Directed by JEAN ROLLIN
Starring BRIGITTE LAHAIE, ALAIN DUCLOS, DOMINIQUE JOURNET
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French filmmaker Jean Rollin made at least one film for every year he was working, releasing more than 50 films in his half-century-long career. As such, only the most ardent purveyor of his particular style of slyly political, pornographic genre filmmaking will have a real handle on what made him unique in his entirety. The Night of the Hunted is an unusual and haunting film made at the end of a decade in which Rollin mainly focused on vampire-themed works. Shot on a shoestring budget, the cast was culled from his intermittent hardcore adult flicks.
Set within a Ballardian tower block overlooking a looping motorway intersection, the film’s slimline story surrounds an environmental disease that affects the minds of the afflicted, slowly stripping them of their memories and
