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The Shiver of the Vampires [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray]
by Sandra Julien (Isa),
Jean-Marie Durand (Antoine),
Jacques Robiolles (Second Vampire),
Michel Delahaye (First Vampire),
Marie-Pierre Tricot (Maid),
Jean-Jacques Renon (Actor),
Jean Rollin (Actor),
Monique Natan (Actor),
Jean-Paul Loublier (Actor),
Nicole Nancel (Isabelle),
Marie-Pierre Castel (Actor),
Jean Rollin (Director,Screenwriter),
Jean Rollin (Director,Screenwriter,Producer),
Monique Natan (Screenwriter),
Monique Natan (Screenwriter),
Jean-Jacques Renon (Cinematographer),
Jean-Paul Loublier (Sound Effects),
Acanthus (Composer)
Acanthus (Composer)
Format: 4K Ultra HD
ISBN: 843501044360
Publication Date: 06/24/2025
Edition Description: Wide Screen / Subtitled
French cult director Jean Rollin had his roots in the avant-garde film movement, so it's no surprise that many of his early films are nearly unwatchable. This vexing piece of psychedelic nonsense concerns newlyweds Antonio and Ise, who visit an old castle owned by the bride's dead cousins. When Ise is too grief-stricken to consummate her marriage, a vampire named Isolde pops out of a grandfather clock and plays with Ise's breasts then takes her to the cemetery and bites her neck. Isolde is joined by two lesbian servants and Ise's undead cousins -- a pair of bourgeois male vampires who wear hippie clothes and spout incomprehensible philosophy. A subplot involves a village woman named Isabelle, who slept with both of the cousins when they were living vampire-hunters. Isolde ends up killing her while wearing ten-inch spiked pasties. It is up to dull Antonio to get his wife out of the castle before she becomes a vampire, but he fails, so he ends up crying on a beach after Ise, and her cousins are disintegrated by the morning sun. Every other scene seems to use a different colored gel -- from red and blue to a sickly orangish-purple -- and Rollin includes a great deal of mist and wind to add "atmosphere," -- as well as a dreadful score by a teen-rock group called Acanthus, which mercifully disbanded shortly afterward. Rollin eventually improved, becoming a master of erotic horror, but this film shows no evidence of such talent. Sandra Julien co-stars with Jean-Marie Durand, Jacques Robiolles, and Michel Delahaye.
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