One of Rollin's most personal and surreal films, which plays like a vampire fairy tale, ... more
mixing nudity, torture and lesbianism with striking visual sequences almost devoid of dialogue. Along with Shiver of The Vampire and The Naked Vampire, Requiem established Rollin's unique take on the eroticised bloodsucker.
The films of French cult director Jean Rollin belong to a genre all their own, horror ... more
fantasies that plunge viewers into wild fantasy worlds out of time and place in which figures (usually nude women) wander a deserted landscape. InRequiem 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
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I felt compelled to write a review of Requiem For A Dream simply because it blew me away. I had vaguely heard of it for a while; I knew that it was about drugs, it was supposedly good, and that was about it. However, I recently stumbled across it on my trusted font of cinematic knowledge, IMDb, and discovered that not only is it by the director of Pi (another critically acclaimed film); not only is the director, Darren Aronofsky, married to Rachel Weisz; not only is he the guy who's made The Fountain (that film which got booed off at the Venice Film Festival); but that it was also voted as one of the top 58 films of all time. I also read that the last fifteen minutes of this film is the most harrowing thing you'll ever see. I was interested.
First things first; the story. Sara Goldfarb (played by Ellen Burstyn - The Exorcist ...
Advantages: Energetic visuals and some original techniques overwhelm the viewer. Disadvantages: At it's core it's an update of "Reefer Madness".
of the infomercial that Ellen Burstyn is constantly watching in the film.
When you first put the disc in the player the film will become extremely snowy and distorted and there will be a clip of actor Christopher McDonald selling his No Meat self-help program. After a couple of minutes this will change to a clearer but still slightly distorted (tear lines) blue screen with a 900 number and various Tappy Tibbons books. Ah but those books will take you to where you want to go. It's a fun way to start a DVD though it wears out its welcome with the loud audio clip of the infomercial going into loop mode if you don't make a menu selection.
The Making of Requiem for A Dream serves as the documentary on the disc. It's a 35-minute, videotaped documentary with a long sequence devoted to how one of the gory special effects was accomplished. In ...
Advantages: Both quite good for the money £2 Disadvantages: Film quality of the second feature isnt great.
very slowly.
Jude Law was about and acting in the 70s.
When the vampire was hunting Elvira down cause she needed the blood of a virgin why didn?t Daninsky do the honourable thing? (You know what I mean)
Leather jackets stop knives. Checkered shirts don?t.
Who I?d Punch
Daninsky?s mad sister. I didn?t like her cheek bones one bit.
Overall
I wouldn?t recommend it. You the average person (even if you are on Ciao) won?t like it. If you?re the type of person who would like this film then you just know. It wasn?t anything special to me and if I got saw the other Daninsky films going cheap I might give them a go. It?s a cheap DVD set with The Screaming Skull added on. Not to be sniffed at. Also bear in mind The Werewolf vs. The Vampire Woman is dubbed. Quite well to be fair but it is noticeable. The Screaming Skull is probably ...
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Main Language
French
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English
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Dolby Digital
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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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