Stars: Marie-Pierre Castel, Philippe Gaste, Louise D'Hour, Dominique Toussaint, Mirielle D'Argent

Director: Jean Rollin

Summary: From French cult sex-horror auteur Jean Rollin comes this odd vampire fairy tale. Considered his most personal work and walking the very thin tightrope between art and exploitation, it combines sex and brutal violence with almost childlike scenes of romantic innocence. Two girls find themselves seeking shelter in the mansion of a vampire. Soon they are lowered into a torture pit by the vampire's crazed slaves and offered as bait to catch unsuspecting young men. A puzzling gem for the adventurous horror fan.

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The films of French cult director Jean Rollin belong to a genre all their own, horror fantasies that plunge viewers into wild fantasy worlds out of time and place in which figures (usually nude women) wander a deserted landscape. In Requiem for a Vampire, two school girls in painted clown faces and goofy polka-dot garb shoot out of the back of a speeding car on a desolate country road. For 45 minutes, we follow the adventures of the braided young nymphs as they ditch the car, wipe off the clown white, and change into miniskirts, with nary a word spoken. They dreamily wander through a graveyard (where one falls into a freshly dug grave and is buried alive!) and into a castle, where they are suddenly set upon by cloaked figures and brutish henchmen and made the servants of a tired, sorry-looking vampire desperately attempting to perpetuate his race with fresh blood. The lyrical first half, with its often beautiful and bizarre imagery, gives way to an astonishingly brutal scene in which the henchman molest the women they have chained naked in their dungeon. The film bounces back and forth between surreal poetry and kinky decadence (which also includes scenes of sadomasochism and plenty of gratuitous nudity), but Jean Rollin's ethereal mood and fairy-tale imagery gives the largely wordless film an eerie beauty and the surreal logic of a waking dream. --Sean Axmaker

Aspect Ratio:	1.55 Wide Screen
Main Language:	French
Region:	Region 0
Special Features:	Theatrical Trailer, Stills Gallery, Behind the Scenes Stills, Posters, Advertising materials, Video Art
Year:	1971
Release Date:	May 2, 2000
Runtime:	76 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	P D V D 1481
Keywords:	Terror, General, Caged, Vampires, Vampire, Requiem, Pour, Horror, Un, Occult, Dungeon, Virgins, Sci, Fi
Genre:	Horror/Occult