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Requiem for a Vampire
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9786305302049
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305302049
Label: Image Entertainment
Languages: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglish (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: August 03, 1999
Running Time: 88 minutes
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1973-08
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Editorial Review:
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. The DVD features both French and English language tracks with optional subtitles, French and English trailers, and a gallery of production stills. --Sean Axmaker
Two beautiful runaways seek refuge in a castle. When night falls, they become prey to a sadistic vampire named "The Last Vampire" who, as luck would have it, intends to use them to produce progeny who will continue his bloodline.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - If you love vampire, and you love cheesy flicks...you'll still hate this one
I'm sure I'll get the usual "not helpful" votes from people who've already seen the movie and disagree with what I'm about to say, but in case the reader *hasn't* seen it yet, don't bother. I love vampire lore, and I own a few solid B movies, like Evil Dead, etcetera. This movie seemed right up my alley.
As a previous reviewer mentioned, there's no dialogue for 45 minutes. Ok, fine, at least there was some action so it's not necessarily boring. The sub-titles explain later that the ... Read More
Rating:  - Surreal scenes, sex, and vampires...
Like a fairy tale two women, on the run from the law... or somebody with guns, find a castle. In the castle is blood, sex and pain. No, I'm not joking. Vampires live within the castle and enjoy torturing, raping and draining victims they catch from the surrounding landscape. Some nudity, orgies and lots of guns this film. The film is always changing right before your eyes. Yet it didn't really sell very well and had to go under many other names in the USA, such as Caged Virgins, Virgins and Vampires ... Read More
Rating: - Rollin curbs his cheeseball tendencies and makes an art film.
Requiem for a Vampire (Jean Rollin, 1971)
As usual, when you see a Jean Rollin film, you can be relatively sure you're going to get beautiful women and really cheesy effects. What's surprising about this one, however, is how entirely different it is from any other Rollin movie I've seen. And the things that make it different-- the things that seem to have made legions of Rollin fans consider this one of his worst movies-- are the things I think make it the strongest. Legend has it that the producers ... Read More
Rating:  - Paris and Nicole with unshaven armpits meet Vampires.
This can best be described as what happens when a horny French teenager gets his hands on a movie camera after reading too many issues of "Vampirella". If you're looking for an artistic masterpiece or eye-popping horror, forget it. If you want an unintentionally silly, cheesy,sleazy(a bat in the shrubbery!) 1970's film, it is perfect. Director Jean Rollin tries to get arty in places, but the occasionally choppy editing and forcedness of the shots deflate every attempt. Questions abound: If the two female leads were ... Read More
Rating: - WARNING; DON'T BUY THIS TRASH
I watched this movie the other day and all I can think is I CAN'T BELIEVE I BOUGHT THIS PIECE OF SH*T!! I've only seen one other Jean Rollin film before and it sucked, too. I was hoping that Requiem would be better, but it was WORSE. There's no plot in this movie, the imagery is pointless and unmoving, and the acting BLOWS. Jean Rollin, if you are an Amazon customer and are reading this, let me tell you that you SUUUUUUUUUUUUCK !!!!
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