Product Details

• Actors: Sandra Julien, Jean-Marie Durand, Jacques Robiolles, Michel Delahaye, Marie-Pierre Castel
• Directors: Jean Rollin
• Format: Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: September 21, 1999
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00000JWW8
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #76,512 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

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Jean Rollin's surreal and strange cult classic is a nutty mix of hippie vampires, lesbian seduction, and moonlight ceremonies in a graveyard bathed in red and blue light. A honeymooning couple stops at a crumbling castle to visit the oddball cousins of bride Isolde, who have supposedly just passed away but mysteriously show up for dinner. Decked out in hep Carnaby Street duds, they entertain their guests with tales of religious research and the worship of Isis, tossing the story back and forth like a game of verbal Ping-Pong. While the groom Antoine discovers their bloodsucking secret as they stake a recent victim in their cellar ("We must not pass on this terrible curse"), Isolde is seduced by a statuesque female vampire who steps out of a grandfather clock and into her bed, the first of many memorable entrances. Even more absurd than most of Rollin's low-budget horror fantasies, The Shiver of the Vampires is one of his most inventive productions, a gorgeously photographed, dreamy look into the erotic lure of vampirism set to a groovy instrumental progressive rock score. Like a skin flick for surrealists, the film is full of passages of naked women wordlessly wandering through the castle hallways and towers, and in true Rollin fashion he can't seem to decide if the gallant groom or the bloodsucking sensualists are the true heroes of this counter-culture vampire tale. The DVD features French and English trailers, a gallery of production stills, and a Rollin filmography. --Sean Axmaker

Product Description
Teeth, they were like bloody tent pegs! A surreal film featuring gorgeous vampires, Gallic vampire hippies and lashings of lesbian sex. Beautifully macabre, with eerie medieval castles, coffins and a strange woman who emerges from a clock, "The Shiver of the Vampires" is director Jean Rollin's third bloodsuckers fairytale and is remastered from the inter-negative.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Visionary vampire film, March 17, 2001

By	Ava Lomax "avalomax" (Carrboro, NC United States) - See all my reviews

No one makes movies like Jean Rollin, and this is his masterpiece. Like most of his visions it seems to be about innocence and corruption, the attraction Evil has to Good,(and vice versa,)and the discovery of beauty in the unlikeliest of places. This movie is very sexy, very slow, very weird. The music, lighting, absurd dialogue, and slow pacing help create a more poetic and imagistic type of film than we're used to here in the go-go States. If your taste in vampire movies runs more toward the Alyssa Milano variety then you'll probably not like this--it has more in common with Pasolini's Arabian Nights than The Hunger. And the DVD edition is terrific, with a trailer, photo gallery, and Redemption's trademark gothed-out lesbo introduction (which rates five stars all by itself.)

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun, highly stylized and sexy horror film., June 23, 2000

By	Daniel Hirshleifer (Los Angeles, California USA) - See all my reviews

This film, like all of Jean Rollin's films, is not for everyone. He has a style all his own, which is on display in this movie. This film is notable for the hippie cousins, who are funnier than any other Rollin characters in any of his films. The DVD transfer is very clean and clear, some peopl have remarked that they couldn't believe it was made in the 70's. If you're a fan of this type of horror film, and keep in mind this isn't normal horror, then this one is quintessential.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Shiver of the Vampires (1970) d: Rollin, Jean, February 4, 2002

By	Tony Crosgrey (Peterborough, Ontario) - See all my reviews

...A surreal and psychedelic vampire horror film. Full of vibrant colours and eccentric existential characters. A tastefully directed picture with deliberately cliched horror elements. Quick editing techniques with touches of Mario Bava type camera work, wherein the whole room in each scene is captured in one slow moving camera spin. '...Beautifully macabre, with eerie medieval castles'.
A newly married bride appears at the doorstep of a castle, in hopes of visiting her two cousins. After being warmly welcomed by two beautiful servants she and her new groom are told that the two cousins have recently passed away. Shaken by the recent news the bride; too upset to consummated her marriage, wonders around the castle discovering a surreal hippy female friend who pops out of a grandfather clock at midnight. The virgin is taken to the graveyard for a fiendish lesbian vampire ritual and lots of excuse to show naked women, Her husbands quest for knowledge is slowed down a little in the library, as he is attacked by the entire book stacks. Shortly after it is discovered that the two hippie cousins are not dead, just un-dead vampires who live in a world of sex and violence, in the castle of horror.