Directed by Jean Rollin • 1972 • France
Starring Marie-Pierre Castel, Mireille Dargent, Philippe Gasté
With its scenario dredged from director Jean Rollin’s subconscious and a script written in only two days, the dreamlike horror fantasia REQUIEM FOR A VAMPIRE was cited by its maker as his purest work and his personal favorite among his films. It opens with an action scene already in progress: two women in full clown makeup (Marie-Pierre Castel and Mirielle Dargent) fire guns at a retaliating car as a handsome associate mans the steering wheel. This being a Rollin film, we quickly dispense with the man and get on with the vital, almost plotless accumulation of fetish. Eluding their pursuers, our clowns continue their never-explained flight on foot, ultimately coming upon a cemetery and a chateau inhabited by “the last of the vampires.”
Up Next in Scary Sexy: 6 Films by Jean Rollin
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Lips of Blood
Directed by Jean Rollin • 1975 • France
Starring Jean-Loup Philippe, Annie Belle, Natalie PerreyDirector 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 ...
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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...
