Jean Rollin,1973
PLEASE NOTE: This is an NTSC (USA/JAPAN format) Region 0 DVD
Description:
Requiem for a Vampire was Jean Rollin's favourite of all his films. Because he dredged the scenario from
his subconscious, and because it was rushed into its written form so quickly (Rollin claimed that he wrote the
entire script in only two days), he felt it was his purest work.
True to Rollin's roots in serials and the Bizarre, the film opens with an action scene already in progress:
two women in full clown makeup (Marie-Pierre Castel, Mirielle d'Argent), firing guns at a retaliating car behind
them, as a handsome associate mans the steering wheel. This being a Rollin film, we quickly dispense with the
man and get on with the general absence of story and the vital accumulation of fetish. Eluding their pursuers,
our two clowns continue their never-explained flight on foot, journeying to a cemetery, then a chateau inhabited
by "the last of the vampires".
Special features:
• Mastered in HD from the 35mm negative
• Original theatrical trailers
• French with optional English subtitles
• Introduction by Jean Rollin
• 'The Shiver of the Vampire', a documentary featuring
interviews with Nathalie Perrey and Jean-Noël Delamarre
• Interview with Louise Dhour, courtesy of Encore
Filmed Entertainment
• 16-page booklet with an essay by Tim Lucas, editor of
Video Watchdog
• Original trailers of seven other Rollin films
Film details:
France 1973 Colour 87 min 1.66:1
Written and Directed by Jean Rollin
Produced by Sam Selsky
Director of Photography: Renan Polles
Music by Pierre Raph
With Marie-Pierre Castel, Mirielle d'Argent, Louise D'hour,
Philippe Gasté, Dominique
Produced for Video by Bret Wood
Product Code: R011
