Shiver of the Vampires [Blu-ray]

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/25/2023
UPC:	0843501040393
Original Release:	1970
Rating:	NR
Source:	Powerhouse
Language:	English
Time:	1:35:00
Sales rank:	1,516

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

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
Acanthus	Composer

Technical Credits

Jean Rollin

Monique Natan

Jean Rollin	Director,Screenwriter,Producer
Monique Natan	Screenwriter
Jean-Paul Loublier	Sound Effects