The Rape of the Vampire

Solange Pradel Director: Jean Rollin Jean Rollin

Overview

This bizarre, surrealistic erotic-horror film was the first feature by cult director Jean Rollin. There's a great deal of sex, blood, and arty imagery but very little plot to speak of. What plot there is primarily focuses on a pair of insane vampiric sisters who believe that they are cursed by a black Queen Vampire who wears a salamander headband and carries a broadsword. The film got dreadful reviews for its well-nigh incomprehensible mix of densely graphic imagery, Gaston Leroux poetry, and dialogue which was more than half improvised. The results were mostly regrettable, but Rollin completists will find enough unique touches to make it worth watching. Rollin returned with the even stranger La Vampire Nue.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/29/2012
UPC:	0738329093129
Original Release:	1968
Rating:	NR
Source:	Redemption
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Time:	1:35:00
Sales rank:	25,958

Special Features

Mastered in HD from the uncensored 35mm negative; Introduction by Jean Rollin; Two short films by Jean Rollin: Les Amours Jaunes (The Yellow Loves, 1958, 9 min.) and Les Pays Loin (The Far Country, 1965, 16 min.); Alternate version of one scene (2 min.); "Fragments of Pavements Under the Sand," a documentary by Daniel Gouyette, featuring interviews with Jean Rollin, Jean-Denis Bonan, and Jean-Pierre Bouyxou; Interview with Jean Rollin; Interview with Jean-Loup Phillipe; 16-page booklet with an essay by Tim Luca, editor of Video Watchdog; Original theatrical trailers

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Solange Pradel	Actor
Jean-Loup Philippe	Actor
Bernard Letou	Actor
Ursula Pauly	Actor
Jacqueline Sieger	Queen of the Vampires

Technical Credits

Jean Rollin

A.Y. Beaujour

Jean Rollin	Director,Producer,Screenwriter
A.Y. Beaujour	Screenwriter
Yves Géraud	Score Composer
Guy Leblond	Cinematographer
Sam Selsky	Producer
François Tusques	Score Composer