They search for Veronique, who has already been returned to a hellish, top-secret mental institution filled with patients all suffering from the same pernicious amnesia that our two heroines suffer from. Intrigued by ElysabethвЂ™s predicament Vincent finds himself genuinely trying to help Elysabeth find out what is going on. ElysabethвЂ™s partner is recaptured first while Lahaie gets picked up and taken home by a horny Frenchman (Vincent Gardere). Neither she nor her sister escapee Veronique can remember their pasts, who theyвЂ™re fleeing or even why theyвЂ™re running from them.

Brigitte Lahaie, the beautiful starlet of so many Rollin films, stars as Elysabeth, who is part of a pair of women on the run through the night-darkened roadways. With The Night of the Hunted our man Jean departs from his usual tales of the undead and explores a different sort of horror. I also believe that the often pedestrian translations of his movies into English accounts for why some viewers think his films are much less complex than they really are. My own view has long been that RollinвЂ™s films are like projectsВ David Lynch would direct from scripts by Anne Rice. The Night of the Hunted was written and directed by Jean Rollin, who may be the definitive вЂњlove him or hate himвЂќ auteur. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTED (1980) вЂ“ Halloween Month continues with a review of this French horror film.

The night of the hunted