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Killing Car 
DVD CoverDirected by Jean Rollin Produced by Jacques Michel Starring Tiki Tsang
Fréderique Haymann
Jean-Jacques Lefeuvre
Karine Swenson
Jean-René Gossard
Karine Helewicz
Pascal Montsegur
Jean-Loup PhilippeMusic by Philippe Brejean Cinematography Max Monteillet Editing by Janette Kronegger Distributed by Impex Films Release date(s) 1993 Running time 87 mins Country France Language French Budget $100,000 (in USD) Killing Car (original title: Femme Dangereuse or Dangerous Woman)[1] is a 1989 film directed by Jean Rollin.
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Synopsis
A young Asian woman known as "The Car Woman" to her victims goes on a massive killing spree, leaving a little toy car among the bodies, as her calling card and with two police detectives on her trail.
Firstly she wanders into a scrapyard to steal an American car, and shoots the owner dead, she is interrupted by the owners girlfriend who also has a gun and shoots back, she runs from the car woman and seeks help from a group of prostitutes. The car woman chases them all through a fairground and garden of statues killing them one-by-one. A man named Robert and his girlfriend Sylvie are later running from her and take refuge in a farm house, he goes to check if she's gone and she kills his Sylvie, she emerges from a grand-father clock and kills him too. Marc, a friend of Robert's arrives to the farmhouse to meet him along with his girlfriend, the car woman is waiting, she shoots Robert, and rams a garden fork through his girlfriends chest. She travels to New York for a modeling shoot and kills the photographer, Pascale and her friend Barbara leaving them on a rooftop. After being replaced by the car woman as a dancer, a woman suspects she is up to something follows the car woman and Sam, the man who gave her the dancing job, back to the car woman's boat, where she kills them both. After later wounding an office worker and killing two antique dealers it all becomes clear that, she is the real victim, as she has tracked down the people who didn't stop to help her in a car accident a year before and that one of the police detectives had been secretly helping her the whole time.[2]
Production
Killing Car was a part which was especially written for the actress Tiki Tsang, which is the only film credit to her name. Production for the film began around 1989, which is displayed below the credits in the opening of the film. It was shot on 16mm and possibly an aspect ratio of 1.33:1, which is the only ratio available for the film, and was originally made for television and video, but did have a theatrical release in 1993. The film took ten days to shoot and by the end Rollin became seriously ill, he started editing about two months after he recovered. As the work began in 1989 it took two years to complete and was eventually released in 1993, although, there is no usable print or negative of the film that exists today, all known film negative is considered lost, and if the film was originally shot on a wider ratio than 4:3, there is no possible was to recover this.
DVD Releases
Released in France as part of the Jean Rollin collection.[3]
Released by Redemption/Salvation in UK on 23 January 2006 in 1.33:1/4:3 full frame and the special features include: photo gallery, video art and filmography.[4]
The film was released in US on 29 April 2008 by Salvation Films/Redemption and includes a Jean Rollin interview.[5]
References
- ^ "The Cinema of Jean Rollin: Killing Car (1993)". requiemforjeanrollin.blogspot.com. http://requiemforjeanrollin.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html. Retrieved October 11, 2010.
- ^ "Killing Car Review". mondo-digital.com. http://www.mondo-digital.com/rollin2.html. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
- ^ "DVD review France". devildead.com. http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.devildead.com/indexfilm.php3%3FFilmID%3D1030&ei=SV-zTL6aG6KJ4gb0iKzxBg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCMQ7gEwAw&prev=/search%3Fq%3Djean%2Brollin%2Bkilling%2Bcar%26hl%3Den526prmd%3Do. Retrieved October 11, 2010.
- ^ "Killing Car at Salvation Films". salvationgroup.com. http://www.salvationgroup.com/WebForums/Product.aspx?ProductID=52. Retrieved October 11, 2010.
- ^ "Killing Car US DVD Review". 10kbullits.com. http://10kbullits/reviews/k/killing-car. Retrieved October 11, 2010.
External links
Films directed by Jean Rollin 1960s Le Viol du Vampire (1968) · La Vampire Nue (1969)1970s Le Frisson des Vampires (1970) · Requiem pour un Vampire (1971) · La Rose de Fer (1972) · Les Demoniaques (1973) · Lévres de Sang (1975) · Les Raisins de la Mort (1978) · Fascination (1979)1980s La Nuit des Traquees (1980) · Le Lac des Morts Vivants (1980) · Les Paumées du Petit Matin · La Morte Vivante (1982) · Les Trottoirs de Bangkok (1984) · Perdues dans New York (1989) · Killing Car (1989)1990s Les deux orphelines vampires (1997) · La fiancée du Dracula (1999)2000s La Nuit des horloges (2007) · Le Masque de la Méduse (2009)Categories:- French-language films
- 1989 films
- 1980s horror films
- French horror films
- Films directed by Jean Rollin
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