06-11-2020, 12:49 AM
Le Viol du Vampire translates as Rape of the Vampire. But there's no rape in this, just vague recollections that one might have happened in the distant past.
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This black and white film was Rollin's very first. Actually, it was supposed to be a short, to be used by theaters before the main attraction. But then Rollin decided to tack on a second part to make it long enough to release as a feature film.
None of the cast or crew had ever worked on or been in a film before. Rollin didn't have money for extras, so crew doubled for that. For the actresses he used models and strippers. Script? Yes, they had a script. But within two days every copy of it had been lost. So Rollin impromised. The movie is impossible to follow, and early audiences got very angry at Rollin for that. Still, one sees the first glimmers of his genius here, the Gothic atmosphere, his main themes, and his affinity for graveyards and old decaying structures and remnants of an ocean pier. Some of these very settings get used time and again in later movies.
I'd only recommend this for staunch Rollin fans. Or people interested in bowling, because there's some of that. There's some fencing too, by the way. But I don't suppose anyone would be interested in that. It's just between women anyway. In diaphanous gowns.
This black and white film was Rollin's very first. Actually, it was supposed to be a short, to be used by theaters before the main attraction. But then Rollin decided to tack on a second part to make it long enough to release as a feature film.
None of the cast or crew had ever worked on or been in a film before. Rollin didn't have money for extras, so crew doubled for that. For the actresses he used models and strippers. Script? Yes, they had a script. But within two days every copy of it had been lost. So Rollin impromised. The movie is impossible to follow, and early audiences got very angry at Rollin for that. Still, one sees the first glimmers of his genius here, the Gothic atmosphere, his main themes, and his affinity for graveyards and old decaying structures and remnants of an ocean pier. Some of these very settings get used time and again in later movies.
I'd only recommend this for staunch Rollin fans. Or people interested in bowling, because there's some of that. There's some fencing too, by the way. But I don't suppose anyone would be interested in that. It's just between women anyway. In diaphanous gowns.
I'm nobody's pony.