The Polluted Wine Produced For A Villages Annual Grape Harvest Festival Has Left All But A Few Rabid With Some Chemically- Engendered Form Of Zombiism They May Saunter About Like Sleepwalkers But These Are Not The Zombies Of George A Romeros Night Of The Living Dead (1968) They Are Rather Oozing Transmitters Of An Impassioned Insanity That Can Only Be Termed Anarchy It Seems An Odd Boast To Make For One Title In A Plentiful Filmography Devoted To Vampires Ghosts And Other Undead But The Grapes Of Death (Les Raisins De La Mort) Is Jean Rollins Most Frightening Movie It Was Never Really The Goal Of His Previous Films To Frighten And It Is The Unsettling Progressively Chilling Quality Of Grapes That Makes It Unlike Anything Else In Rollins Poetical Canon Watching It One Is Almost Surprised That Rollin Would--Or Could--Direct A Film To Such A Successfully Commercial End But The Grapes Of Death Unfolds Like An Ever-Expanding Nightmare Whose Noose Is Drawn All The Tighter By The Efforts Of Its Young Heroine To Escape It - Tim Lucas
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