The Rape of the Vampire

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Summary: A romantic experimental film
Review: An original, subversive and anarchic film that talks better than another of Rollin's movies about his peculiar conception of cinema:a mixture of gothic horror imaginary, politic surrealism, dark romanticism, pulp sexy comic book aesthetic,antiacademic performance and camera experimentalism .The film is conceived as a collage of images, following the estructure of his favourite painter, Clovis Trouille, solution that allows him to mix much of the referents that conform his ambiguous imaginary:the oniric poetry of Tristan Corbière, the sexy shocker surrealism of Georges Bataille, the provocative and anticlerical cinema of Luis Buñuel, the bizarro and pulp style of Gaston Leroux and the poetic realism of Jacques Prévert.An amoral,ludic and non-narrative vampyr's picture, half romantic, half conceptual and totally experimental.

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Summary: Um.....What?
Review: I decided to give Rape of the Vampire a spin, because I love the old B&W horror movies: Dracula, Frankenstein, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney,etc.
I also love cheesy horror flicks, both old and new.

But Rape of the Vampire falls into neither classic, nor artistic, nor cheesy-good. It is simply horrible.

In high school, we made a film called Captain Ecology, which could possibly rival this film on editing and plot and acting. Just count your lucky stars that it will never show up for sale anywhere. Feel disappointed? Then go ahead and pick up this piece of ripened cheese.

Filmed originally in 1968 as a short, this French film was literally booed at its opening. Quite risqué for its time, there was plenty of blood and nudity, and perhaps fans of the genre weren't ready for such bold entertainment; or perhaps they knew a bad movie when they saw it. Today, it will seem tame, but it still has the capacity to bore you to tears.

Filmed entirely in B&W and subtitled in English, the story is irritatingly (I'm sure it was meant to be artistic) interspersed with random flashes of inconsequential scenes, and the editing is jerky and poorly done even by high school standards.

The Plot? Well, if you can call it a plot, a group of four women wander about in diaphanous, sheer dresses, believing that they are vampires. After they all die in the first half, they are miraculously brought back to life for the second half, in which another vampire lady joins them and they finally grow teeth. That's about it. Oh, and there is some naked frolicking in the surf.

Rape of the Vampire isn't even Campy, it's just plain bad. If you want blood, buy a bloody movie. If you want nudity, buy a Playboy DVD. If you want artisitic, buy an art film that won an award somewhere. But stay away from this flick at all costs, unless you are truly a drooling Rollin fanatic.

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Summary: Confusing
Review: Nobody buys a Jean Rollin film for the plot. Sit back and be boggled by visual delights, or disturbed by them.

This film is set in two parts and begins with four sisters who believe themselves to be vampires, and some ends up being one.

I can't explain much because, I have to admit, I didn't understand much of this film. But it looks good.

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Summary: it's great, it's boring, it's sorta [racy]
Review: not too rapey, pretty vampirey, pretty boring in a good way. this had great music, and some really beautiful shots, i have to say i do prefer color, and i wish there were trailers for similar films on these releases, but it's a five star for any 60-70s foreign vampire...lovers.

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Summary: Great film!
Review: One of Rollin's earliest, and best. Very sureal. A must for all Rollin fan's.