Pierre Raph – Gilda & Gunshots
{LA People there’s a special Jean Rollin event at Cinefamily May 7th, featuring an special remixed screening of La Vampire Nue (original trailer below) and new score by Demdike Stare!!!}
Jean Rollin was a french film-maker best known for his horror/gore/exploitation films of the late 1960s and 1970s. Given his filmography, it’s not a surprise that music associated with his films would be right in the wheelhouse of B-Music and Finders Keepers and they’ve recently compiled a bunch of it for this collection. The spot on appropriately titled “Gilda & Gunshots” stands out for me, just because of the absurdity of it all. I’m sure seeing the visuals would make this song make more sense, but hearing it, with those driving drums and bass line, a woman in pain or ecstasy and all those gunshots, it sounds like pure mayhem is going down.
As a further taste of Jean Rollin’s style, here’s the trailer to his 1970 film, La Vampire Nue, a heady mix of wild visuals for sure: