- Year
- 1978
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Director
- Jean Rollin
- Updated
- 9 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (39/100)
- Also known as
- The Raisins of Death
The Grapes of Death
Rollin does an outbreak. A pesticide turns wine-country villagers into oozing killers.
Jean Rollin's move into gorier territory, and one of the first films to treat a zombie-like outbreak as ecological horror. A pesticide sprayed on vineyards turns the rural population into decaying, murderous carriers, and a young woman flees across an emptying French countryside as the infection spreads.
It has Rollin's usual dreamy melancholy but a harder, bloodier edge, and the wine-country setting gives it a specific unease. More coherent than his vampire films, and grim.
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