Rising out of the smokey Parisian Mai 68 shrapnel and claiming his stake as the 1st French vampire movie director, the inimitable father of European Horrortica, Jean Rollin (1938-2010) has smudged the painted face of surrealist cinema for over 5 decades. Dragging his roots from beneath the Letterist/Situationist movements, avant-garde theatre and Belgian ne art groups and entwining them around the minds of sexual revolutionaries, the European comic book cognoscenti and the Parisian free jazz and rock scenes, Rollin stopped at nothing to bring his macabre phantasies of zygotic vampyrism and backwoods blood cults to Gallic cinematheques and beyond.