Where the latter is highly scientific in his approach, Rollin is a pure romantic. As Rollin is pretty much diametrically opposite in approach to Cronenberg as a filmmaker. But the similarities are entirely superficial. The story and setting itself very much recalls the work of David Cronenberg. In other words, Night of the Hunted, despite surface differences contains all the strengths and weaknesses that all Rollin films have. The ending in particular on the grassy viaduct over the city being a perfect example of this. And it also displays Rollin's eye for the surreal. It has the strange melancholic, romantic atmosphere which always makes his movies so odd for horror films. The story is as flimsy and senseless as its possible to be. It has the typical Rollin characters - alluring yet strangely asexual young women in the central roles and extremely dull men in the periphery. Yet, within this veneer is a film that anyone even remotely familiar with the director's work can identify quite easily as one of his films. The setting is in the middle of a city and the visuals are ones of sterile urban alienation as opposed to the Gothic surrealism more typically associated with Rollin. ![]() Its about a mysterious clinic in a high-rise building where patients have a mental disorder where their memories and identities are disintegrating due to an environmental accident. Its story is on the face of it unusual for the director. ![]() Night of the Hunted is ostensibly something of a departure for French horror auteur Jean Rollin. Reviewed by Red-Barracuda 7 / 10 Rollin has a go at urban horror
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