The Iron Rose (1973, dir by Jean Rollin)

Today’s horror scene that I love comes from the 1972 French film, The Iron Rose.  In this scene, directed by the great Jean Rollin, Francoise Pascal dances in a cemetery.  Why is she dancing?  Perhaps she is celebrating the fact her lover has just suffocated inside of the crypt that she locked him in.  Perhaps she’s just happy that a clown came by earlier and lay some flowers on a grave.  One can never be sure.  This entire sequence is Rollin at his best.

This is one of Rollin’s most enigmatic films, which is saying something when you consider just how dream-like the average Rollin film is.  It was Rollin’s fifth film and his first to not involve vampires.