The Escapees (1981)
On the run from an asylum for the insane, a feisty young girl and a forlorn female companion embark on a surreal journey with a group of traveling erotic dancers.
Apologies to all the Jean Rollin fans out there but i thought this was, for want of a better word - rubbish. Pretentious and plotless with two very unmemorable girls in Christiane Coppé and Laurence Dubas as leads, this was a disappointment all round, only the bloody finale with a sexy cameo from Rollin regular Brigitte Lahaie, nodded towards the directors earlier and far superior work.
Leaving the Gothic castles and beaches behind (obviously there is a beach in this one - there had to be, just not for very long) Rollin goes for a landscape of Ballard esq tower blocks, urban decay and er the docks, which he utilized better in both earlier The Night of the Hunted (tower blocks) and later works Killing Car (Urban decay / docks).
Sadly as a sexy thriller this fails and as a doomed romance it's, well, doomed.
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