I'd been avoiding this, Jean Rollin's "final" film, for years. Final is in quotes because he actually did 1 more after this, but La nuit des horloges was written and delivered to be his last word.
I had avoided it because it had gotten lukewarm reviews on that other site where people suck at reviewing films, and I didn't want my sky-high esteem of the master to be tarnished by a lukewarm finale...