Directed by Jean Rollin • 1979 • France
Starring Franca Maï, Jean-Marie Lemaire, Brigitte Lahaie
Jean Rollin’s erotic masterpiece is often described as a vampire film—yet, more than nearly any other horror movie, its true subject is blood fetishism. Set in 1905, the story concerns a group of aristocratic women who acquire more epicurean tastes after drinking ox blood as a cure for anemia. Playful, elegantly crafted, and brimming with some of the most unforgettable images in the director’s filmography, FASCINATION represents Rollin at his very best—venturing outside his usual comfort zones and extending the definition of his filmic universe in the process.
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