The Cinema of Jean Rollin: The Vampire Collection - Box Set - DVD - Region 1 - [New]

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    As the constraints of censorship began to ease in the late 1960s and early 70s, visionary French filmmaker Jean Rollin created a series of mesmerizing thrillers that injected the Gothic vampire film with a more contemporary strain of eroticism. Fluctuating between visual poetry and shocking violence, Rollin's deeply personal films hove come to be recognized as classics of the horror genre, and are presented here in deluxe editions, mastered in HD from the original 35mm negatives, and accompanied by printed essays by Tim Lucas (Video Watchdog).

    The Nude Vampire:
    Wealthy and decadent industrialist Georges Radamante rules over a strange secret suicide cult and wants to achieve immortality by figuring out a way to share the biochemistry of a young mute orphaned vampire woman. Complications ensue when Radamante's son Pierre finds out what's going on and falls for the comely lass.

    The Shiver of the Vampires:
    Blissful newlyweds Isle and Antoine stop off at a decrepit old castle in rural France to visit the bride's estranged cousins, only to receive shocking news. However, the distraught couple decides to spend the night in the gloomy, stone-walled manor, and soon, the suspiciously warm hospitality of two eerily seductive maids paves the way for mysterious incidences and spine-chilling encounters. Then, the missing lords of the château turn up for dinner, and the truth becomes stranger than fiction. Now, a pale late-night temptress claiming to be a friend thirsts for Isle's kiss, eager to unveil the secret of eternal life. Is sweet death the doorway to the ultimate freedom?

    Rape of the Vampire:
    This low-budget first film from director Jean Rollin is in reality two very loosely-connected, surreally erotic shorts about vampirism. In the first, three Parisians including a psychoanalyst try to convince four neurotic sisters living in a decaying country chateau that their belief that they are 200-year-old vampires is false. The alluring young women are influenced and controlled by a enigmatic disembodied voice which turns out to be the aging, aristocratic lord of the manor, whose motives are unclear but clearly perverse. Local rustics unite to hunt down and kill the sanguine siblings. In the second, the Queen of the Vampires and her acolytes arrive on the scene, resurrect the dead, and promulgate the cause of the Undead while a medical researcher works to find an antidote to vampirism.

    Requiem for a Vampire:
    Still sporting their clown costumes, Michelle and Marie, two virginal women on the run, flee a New Year's party in a stolen car. As the young runaways wander the picturesque French countryside in search of safety, before long, they chance upon the decrepit château of a centuries-old vampire king and, unaware of the risks involved, enter the castle. But there, torture, sadism, and sexual abuse await the eternally lost girls. Now, the only thing that matters is submitting to the will of the pitiless lord. Who can escape the intoxicating pleasure of pain and the evil master's harem of vampiric vixens?
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    Studio: Kino Lorber (USA) Run Time: 85,95,95,87 mins approx Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Number of Discs: 4 Director: Jean Rollin Actor: Caroline Cartier,Olivier Rollin, Sandra Julien, Jean-Marie Durand, Jacques Robiolles, Solange Pradel, Bernard Letrou, Catherine Deville, Marie-Pierre Castel, Mireille Dargent Region: 1 Rating: Unrated