Directed by Jean Rollin • 1975 • France
Starring Jean-Loup Philippe, Annie Belle, Natalie Perrey
Director Jean Rollin blends a moody tale of vampirism and incest with his signature obsessions: childhood, nostalgia, lost love, romantic quests, cinema, obsolescence. While attending a launch party for a new perfume, Frédéric (Jean-Loup Philippe) is awakened to a dormant childhood memory: a chateau pictured in the poster reminds him of a night, long ago, when he was lost and a beautiful young woman (Annie Belle) came out of nowhere to protect him through the night. When the woman—unaged—magically appears and beckons to him, Frédéric finds his way back to the chateau and to her, uncovering some dark secrets about his family’s past along the way.
Up Next in Scary Sexy: 6 Films by Jean Rollin
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The Grapes of Death
Directed by Jean Rollin • 1978 • France
Starring Marie-Georges Pascal, Félix Marten, Serge MarquandThe polluted wine produced for a village’s annual grape-harvest festival has left all but a few rabid with some chemically engendered form of zombiism. They may saunter about like sleepwalkers, bu...
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Fascination
Directed by Jean Rollin • 1979 • France
Starring Franca Maï, Jean-Marie Lemaire, Brigitte LahaieJean 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 ari...
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The Living Dead Girl
Directed by Jean Rollin • 1982 • France
Starring Marina Pierro, Françoise Blanchard, Mike MarshallCatherine Valmont (Françoise Blanchard), a wealthy heiress dead before her time, is accidentally reanimated when some unfortunate movers attempt to store drums of chemical waste in the neglected bu...
