It feels like it has been forever since I last did a review here. I finished one up at long last over at Top Horror Movies Club for The Bay. I got it started a while back actually, but didn't get it finished on the same day. I would pick...
It feels like it has been forever since I last did a review here. I finished one up at long last over at Top Horror Movies Club for The Bay. I got it started a while back actually, but didn't get it finished on the same day. I would pick it up again, get a few words in, but was never really able to just sit and write. My long streak to finish last month didn't really burn me out from writing, so I'm not sure why I was having trouble getting back into doing a review. Anyway, I had a couple of movies that came out of my instant watch queue, so I got those watched. I have a couple of more to get through for the same reason, so hopefully this will get me wanting to write again. First up was Jean Rollin's Lips Of Blood (1975).While at a party, Frédéric (Jean-Loup Philippe) sees a picture of an old run down castle. It triggers a memory of him as a young child finding a girl (Annie Belle) in that very castle. He gives her his toy and sleeps there in the castle with her. Leaving in the morning, he promises he will be back. Frédéric ditches his date while trying to find out more information about the picture, but no one seems to know anything about it. He talks to his mother, who is also at the party, and comes across as a bit of an ass to her. It seems that Frédéric as lost his childhood memories ever since his father passed away, so he is obsessed with this picture since it managed to trigger something for him. Eventually he finds the name of the person who took the photo, but she was paid off to not reveal the location. His search leads to some vampire woman following him around and helping him out from time to time, but why would vampires want to help him?Lips Of Blood seems to be one of Rollin's more popular films. It gets a slightly above average rating on IMDb, and gets mostly favored reviews elsewhere. While I liked it more than some of his other films I have watched, I still wasn't all that impressed with it. According to trivia, Rollin's based the main character off himself. Hopefully Jean never comes off the way Frédéric did at times. I mean Frédéric could get somewhat mean to someone when he felt they weren't paying enough attention to what he wanted to talk about. I haven't liked Rollin's films too much because I have always felt it was nudity/sex above all else with him in his films. While Lips Of Blood isn't that bad, it comes somewhat close. There are vampire woman running around nude, well...they are wearing clothes but they are of the see through type for some of them. Frédéric isn't a bad looking guy, but I had a hard time believe that every woman he seemingly comes across throws themselves at him. A good example of that is when he visits the woman who took the photo from the start of the film. I did find it funny that when the vampire women help him out, he runs away from them. I admit that I wouldn't want to hang with someone who would likely want to kill me for my blood, but I'm pretty sure I would be curious as to why they are helping me get out of locked rooms and killing other people who are trying to stop me. The film was just okay to me at best, but it got boring as well. I got tired of Frédéric running off each time things start to get a little interesting. I admit that the ending was too bad, and did surprise me slightly with the direction it took. I thought they needed to seriously rethink the very end of the film though.Lips Of Blood isn't a very gory film when it comes down to it. There is some blood, but nothing major to be found. Mostly from vampire bites of course, which people seem to die quickly from. Not that it is a special effect, but there is plenty of nudity to be found, even from our lead actor Jean-Loup Philippe. Speaking of Philippe, he did a pretty good job with the lead. Annie Belle also does a good job, even if she spends a lot of time just standing around.One of the things that really bugged me is when Frédéric finds a woman dead whom he is supposed to be meeting. I didn't know who she w
