I will say this for Redemption movies: they make me a better writer. It is extremely difficult to find new ways to say that a movie is a soul-shatteringly bad piece of celluloid which degrades women and purposefully attempts to eradicate all of the wonderful progress in womens rights. So I guess what Im trying to say is, as a movie-watching experience Redemption is an uninvited guest who spits in my face, rampages through my house, and uses my bath towels as toilet paper; but as a writing exercise, it has been helpful. Or at least thats what I tell myself.
So this month I received two more movies: The Escapees and Saint Francis. Saint Francis Ill deal with in another review, but the sad thing is that I could copy and paste about 98% of the remarks Ill make here, change a name here and there, and be done with it. In order to keep what little shred of self-respect I still have I choose to believe that this is because of the godawful nature of the movies Redemption releases and not some defect in my writing style.
But I digress.
The Escapees is another Jean Rollin re-release, and like all of his other movies he displays a real talent for cinematography and mood as well as a deep and abiding hatred of women. In the movie two young girls escape from an insane asylum and find refuge in a traveling circus. Im sure you can guess where this is going.
The movie was shown in Fullscreen 1.33 aspect ratio with the audio in stereo. The movie was shot in 1981 and it does show its age, but overall there were no serious problems with either the audio or the visual quality.
Exclusive documentary with Jean Rollin on The Escapees (28:21)
Stills gallery
Redemption Trailers – Fascination; Requiem for a Vampire; The Marquis de Sade’s Justine; Saint Francis; Satanic Sluts II
I swear to God, if I get an ulcer from watching these movies I will declare unrelenting war on Redemption and all of its minions. Not recommended.
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Redemption presents The Escapees. Directed by Jean Rollin. Starring Laurence Dubas and Christiane Coppe. Written by Jean Rollin. Running time: 72 minutes. Rated NR. Released on DVD: March 31, 2009. Available at Amazon.
