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Fascination (1979)

Starring: Franca Mai, Brigitte Lahaie Director: Jean Rollin Rating: NR (Not Rated) Format: DVD
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)


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Product Details

  • Actors: Franca Mai, Brigitte Lahaie, Jean-Marie Lemaire, Fanny Magier, Muriel Montossé
  • Directors: Jean Rollin
  • Writers: Jean Rollin
  • Producers: Joe de Palmer
  • 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: NR (Not Rated)
  • Studio: Image Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: September 21, 1999
  • Run Time: 80 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00000JWW6
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #123,686 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
  • For more information about "Fascination" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

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A pair of society women dressed in all their finery stand in the middle of an abattoir, animal carcasses hanging behind them and blood splashed across the floor. Giggling and fidgeting, they drink their prescribed glass of ox blood. The startling, unreal image of high-society manners in the midst of gore and death pitches Jean Rollin's 1979 feature Fascination into a turn-of-the-century culture come unhinged. When a well-dressed rogue, fleeing from angry partners he double-crossed, takes refuge in a lavish, moat-protected mansion, servant girls Franca Mai and Brigitte Lahaie cajole, tease, and seduce him into staying for their nighttime soiree. "You have stumbled into Elizabeth and Eva's life, the universe of madness and death," mutters one of them as they await the cabal where he is the guest of honor. Shot on a starvation budget and populated with stiff performers, Rollin's direction is arch and at times sloppy and his story never more than an outline. It's the mix of dreamy and nightmarish imagery that gives Fascination its fascination: blonde Lahaie stalking victims with a scythe, the bourgeois blood cult swarming over a fresh victim like wild animals, alabaster faces streaked in blood. While it lacks the delirious spontaneity of his earlier vampire films Shiver of the Vampires and Requiem for a Vampire, the languid pace and austere beauty creates an often-mesmerizing fantasy. The DVD also features the original theatrical trailer, a gallery of production stills, and a Rollin filmography. --Sean Axmaker


Product Description

Legendary horror director Jean Rollin presents "Fascination," his "homage to vampirism." This film is filled with visual delights, sensual lesbian lovemaking, a group of castle-dwelling bourgeois women blood-drinkers and the beautiful Brigitte Lahaie as a scythe-wielding avenger. Two women chosen by the group must find a man that they can slaughter and communally consume in a cannibalistic vampire feast.

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Lesbian Blood Drinkers Rule, January 17, 2000
By Sir Jub-Jub (Sir Jub-Jub's Lair, Alaska) - See all my reviews
  
Once again, the prolific french director, Jean Rollin, provides the bored horror film market with a true classic. Fascination is a bizarre foray into the twisted realm of two women who seek to entice unwary men into their devilish world of evil. As with all Rollin films, Fascsination is ripe with symbolism and grotesque imagery which puts most current horror films to shame. For those of us who have seen way too many horror films, Rollin's Fascination will renew our faith in the genrea-check it out.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinated with Rollin and Lahaie, April 9, 2003
By Roxanna Pelly (Las Vegas, Nevada (Global Indie Films Chronicles)) - See all my reviews
Director Jean Rollin and bodacious French actress Brigitte Lahaie have combined on a number of very special (if somewhat flawed) supernatural films. "Fascination" is probably the very best. A coven of beautiful vampire women, a criminal on the run, Lahaie in Grim Reaper's black carrying her giant scythe... all memorable elements in an etheral film that is more mesmerizingly compelling than narratively intact. Relax and enjoy as Rollin and Lahaie manipulate the images that will fascinate your mind.

This is the kind of horror film that incites more unsettling echoes later on as opposed to shocks upon initial viewing. In the end it is well worth watching.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Rollin's finest! 7 female bloodsuckers descend on a chateau, February 9, 2001
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One of, if not the best Rollin flick. Rollin films are either real good (Fascination, The Shiver of the Vampires) or real bad (Night of the Hunted, Requiem for a Vampire). This one is superb. It goes above and beyond his other films in almost every aspect: plot (comprehensive and fluid all the way through), character development, character dialogue (yes, even Brigitte Lahaie has more than 5 lines in this movie), the true horror element (definitely his scariest and eeriest film), and suspense.

The confrontation scene between the scythe wielding Lahaie and the female thief is very stylish and effective! In fact, Lahaie does very well in this movie, far above and beyond her awful turn in Night of the Hunted. I hated her in Night of the Hunted, loved her in this.

A couple of down notes though, about the DVD. The quality of the transfer is not very good, with marks and splotches flying by in several scenes. Also, this isn't the DVD makers fault, but the theatrical trailer has several scenes which were really not in the film. I mean they were all scenes that were in the flim, but they were shot differently for the trailer. It seems Rollin used different takes for the trailer. Weird.

Overall, the movie gets 5 stars, while the DVD quality would get only aobut 3 1/2.

This film is scarier, wittier, more suspenseful, more original and more entertaining than any horror film I've seen released in the past 10 years. They simply don't make them like they use to, and probably never will.

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5.0 out of 5 stars compelling, haunting, and sensual
fascination is one of rollin's most alluring films and benefits from a story that's a little more naturalistic than some of rollin's other films which are far more like dreams... Read more
Published on December 2, 2004 by d. logan

5.0 out of 5 stars exquisite
I recently discovered the films of Jean Rollins and was captivated by their dreamlike beauty. Fascination is no exception and it is the finest of the Rollin's films that I have... Read more
Published on September 17, 2004 by Camille

4.0 out of 5 stars Fascination fascinates
Okay, Jean Rollin is far from a great director, I suppose. He's really inept in some respects. For instance, the "action" and gunplay scenes at the beginning of this film are very... Read more
Published on February 21, 2004 by Garry Messick

4.0 out of 5 stars Eurosleaze classic
Jean Rollin is a name instantly recognizable to hardcore horror genre fans, but meaningless to nearly everyone else. Read more
Published on January 26, 2004 by Jeffrey Leach

5.0 out of 5 stars complete fascination for jean rollin films
let's face it, folks! you can say whatever you want about this film or any other jean rollin film but you must understand a few things. Read more
Published on November 3, 2003 by moongrenadine

2.0 out of 5 stars Arty & pretentious bi-sexual vampire flick.
This little seen cult flick is mostly recommended for those who like art melded with their gore. Personally for that I would watch BLOODSUCKING FREAKS (1978) or THE GORE GORE... Read more
Published on November 1, 2003 by BD Ashley

3.0 out of 5 stars Eerie and haunting, but not perfect...
I suppose it's bad taste to expect something to be "perfect," whether that would be a work or art, music, film, or anything else for that matter. Read more
Published on October 10, 2001 by Dancing Ganesha

4.0 out of 5 stars Rollin IS the genre
This film embodies a lot of why i find these Euro horror/sleaze films so interesting.The way its filmed,the camera seems hand-held all the way through!! Read more
Published on August 15, 2001 by mr.sam galloway

4.0 out of 5 stars pretty good but i could have been better
fascination is eerie and erotic. thats what makes it interesting. its about vampires but not the mythological kind, just ordinary people who like to drink blood. Read more
Published on July 20, 2001 by michael wells

4.0 out of 5 stars A Fascination with evil.
Jean Rollin once again re-invents the vampire thriller in this tale of a not so gentleman bandit trapped in a web of insanity and intrigue between double crossed partners and... Read more
Published on April 16, 2001 by Chadwick H. Saxelid

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