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Brigitte Lahaie,
Brigitte Lahaie,
Dominique Journet,
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Jean Rollin,
Jean Rollin
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: Not Rated
: Image Entertainment
: Foreign, Horror, France
: 93 min.
: French
: English
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This offbeat mixture of eroticism and dystopian science fiction was directed by French cult figure Jean Rollin. While driving along a lonely road in the middle of the night, a man (Vincent Gardnere) sees Elizabeth (Brigette Lahaie), a beautiful woman, wandering by the side of the road, obviously disoriented and wearing only a flimsy white nightgown. Another woman, Veronique (Dominique Journet), equally dazed and entirely nude, looks on. When Elizabeth collapses, the man takes her back to his home, where she confesses that she has amnesia and isn't sure what's happening to her. The two feel drawn to each other and spend the night making love, but the man's home is invaded, and Elizabeth is taken away. Trying to find her, he discovers that Elizabeth and Veronique have been taken back to a mysterious asylum from which they escaped, where a variety of surreal and sexually-oriented tortures await them. Shot on a low budget in a mere two weeks, La Nuit des Traquees was heavily cut in most of its video releases prior to its appearance on DVD; it was released in English-speaking countries as The Night of the Hunted. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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by jhildy
June 24, 2005 - 5:46 PM PDT
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0 out of 3 members found this review helpful
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| This film kept getting worse and worse. If you gave some high school kids a camera and 100.00, and told them to make a film, this is what you would get. I used the fast forward button often. |
| Not as gory as the synopsis would have you believe...
by arotolante
August 7, 2003 - 10:31 AM PDT
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9 out of 9 members found this review helpful
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| ...but this is definitely a Jean Rollin film through and through! Though there are no vampires to be found here, "The Night of the Hunted" contains the same casual soft-core sex found in other Rollin films. Echoes of David Cronenberg permeate the film. There is a strange, dreamlike yet antisceptic feel to the proceedings. I think the film's final image provides some interesting commentary on the state of bourgeouis love/marriage in post-sexual-revolution France. Definitely worth a look! |
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