Les Raisins de la Mort (1978)
Genre: Horror
Duration: 85 minuten
Alternative titles: The Grapes of Death / Moordlustige Zombies / Pesticide
Country:
France
Directed by: Jean Rollin
Stars: Marie-Georges Pascal, Félix Marten and Serge Marquand
IMDb score:
6,0 (3.170)
Releasedate: 5 July 1978
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Les Raisins de la Mort plot
"When the wine flows, the terror begins…"
A vacation with a friend turns into a nightmare when a young woman flees from a train in fear and ends up in a village inhabited by zombies. One by one, the residents turn everyone into bloodthirsty killers.
Actors and actresses
Elisabeth
Paul
Lucien
Lucie
Pierre
Antoinette
Michel
Lucas
The undead who smashes his skull
The man on the train
Reviews & comments
RuudC
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- 4636 messages
- 2529 votes
Bizarre... I still don't really know what to do with this movie. The sex is hard to find for a Jean Rollin film. A plus, because I'm not waiting for fucking zombies, although you could have been quite revolutionary with that. Les Raisins de la Mort is so moderately produced that it's somehow pretty cool. The main character ends up in various strange situations and the zombies are… strange. In the French countryside of the seventies, the atmosphere is quite good and that is one of the reasons why this film is a fairly special experience. Three stars for now, but this is yet to be revised.
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Richard_Voorhees
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- 2311 messages
- 2135 votes
Released in 1978 and therefore still a relatively early zombie film. Rollin's work can't match the work of Romero or Fulci, but his take on the zombie genre is still quite different and interesting to watch.
These are people who were infected by a pesticide that was used for the wine grapes. Rollin's zombies don't turn into mindless carnivores, but the virus affects their brains. This turns them into a kind of psychopath, but they can still talk and reason to a certain extent.
The make-up looks pretty cheap, but the gore fx that passed by here and there were not too bad.
Furthermore, the acting is still quite acceptable and the scenery and music provide a nice atmosphere.
Not much eroticism for a Rollin film, but well chosen in this case. In a movie like this it would have been a bit out of place.
In general, another reasonable zombie movie from that era, but it can't match the classics from the same period.
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Fransman
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- 3028 messages
- 2273 votes
Was pleasantly surprised by this unknown Rollin movie. Has all the ingredients that Rollin likes to put in his films: the decay of man, death and decomposition, desolate landscapes, half-abandoned villages and collapsed houses. And a sweet girl who fights evil to survive. The graveyards he loves so much are missing this time and you don't have to count on a lot of nudity, otherwise generously present in his films. Despite the presence of Brigitte Lahaie.
But there is also a lot to enjoy and I have not been bored for a minute. The special affects and grime department did their best. Perhaps a bit too much for our current taste, but it is also a film from the seventies. It is also not a strange story that Rollin presents us. Not so long ago it was shown that due to the many pesticides used in French agriculture and especially in vineyards, Parkinson's disease occurs much more often than elsewhere. And there may be more diseases whose exact cause has not yet been determined. All in all, I enjoyed it.
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