Following last year’s irresistibly demented Ogroff we offer you another delicate sample of vintage French trash cinema. In Jean Rollin's Grapes of Death a young woman discovers first hand that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into homicidal lunatics. With the aid of two die-hard beer drinkers, she proceeds to fight back during an evening of unrelenting terror. Echoing Romero’s work in The Crazies, Rollin expresses ecological concerns here as well as vaguely political ones. The violence is surprisingly brutal and of course, no Rollin film would be complete without some sexual imagery. Watch out for porn legend Brigitte Lahaie in one of her more serious roles.
