Jean Rollin, 1970
Description:
Wealthy industrialist Georges Radamante (Maurice Lemaitre) has dreams of
immortality. Not through his own achievements, but by finding a way to share the
biochemistry of the mute, orphaned vampire woman (Caroline Cartier) who has been
raised by hooded needle-stickers in isolation, deprived of exposure to human faces.
Radamante's son Pierre (Olivier Martin, Rollin's real-ilfe brother) innocently complicates
matters while trying to infiltrate his father's private club. It is love at first sight and Pierre
determines to liberate his beloved, a gaol which attracts the companionship of other
vampires, who plan a torch-carrying siege of Radamante's palatial compound.
Rollin's first colour film and his first collaboration with director of photography Jean-Jacques Renon,
The Nude Vampire (La Vampire Nue) is a curiously science fiction-tinged story in the then-
fashionable style Jean-Claude Forrest (Barbarella) and Metal hurlant artists Jean "Moebius" Giraud
and Philippe Druillet, who was in fact recruited to design the film's poster.
Special features:
• Mastered in HD from the 35mm negative
• French with optional English subtitles
• English dubbed version
• Introduction by Jean Rollin (2 minutes)
• Interview with Jean Rollin by Daniel Gouyette (19 minutes)
• Interview with Natalie Perrey (4 minute)
• 20-page booklet with an essay by Tim Lucas, editor of Video Watchdog
• French and English theatrical trailers
• Original trailers of four other Rollin films
Film details:
France 1970 Colour 80 min 1.66:1
1920 x 1080p
Directed by Jean Rollin
Produced by Jean Lavie
Written by Jean Rollin and S. H. Mosti
Director of Photography: Jean-Jacques Renon
Music by Yvon Serault
With Maurice Lemaitre, Caroline Cartier, Olivier Rollin, Rene-Jean Chauffard
Produced for video by Bret Wood.
Product Code: R001
