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Requiem for a Vampire

Paul Bisciglia (Actor), Dominique (Actor), Jean Rollin (Director) Rated:
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Format: DVD
3.7 out of 5 stars 17 customer reviews
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Product Details

  • Actors: Paul Bisciglia, Dominique, Philippe Gaste
  • Directors: Jean Rollin
  • Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated:
    Unrated
    Not Rated
  • Studio: Redemption Films
  • DVD Release Date: February 24, 2009
  • Run Time: 83 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001LIK8FC
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #281,653 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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3.0 out of 5 starsNot what you might expect.
By A Customer on February 4, 2002
Format: DVD
Ever since I saw a copy of David Piries "vampire filmcult" in a public library, back in the 70ies, I wanted to see this movie. The book then contained a lot of impressive pictures of stunning beauty and erotic violence. Finally Salvation shipped me the DVD, and I could finally see my second Rollin movie - after I'd seen Grapes of Death in a movie theatre back in the 80ies. So I set down, pressed play and watched two beauties (though strange beauties)lost somewhere in Europe who stumble upon the last vampire and his red-haired desciples. So what to expect? Rollin is no Franco, so anyone reading about torture scenes should proceed with caution here: Rollin cannot decide whether he wants to recreate the silent beauty of Dryers "Vampyr" or create an exploitation movie. So you'll sit for the first 35 minutes whatching the girls walking through fields, woods, graveyards and nothing - absolutely nothing - happens. The way it is filmed though creates a dreamlike atmosphere that can drag you - if you like this kind of movies (like Eraserhead) - into this surreal world. Then they meet the red haired witches in a (not really impressive) castle - a little bit of violence and nudity - and then again they run through the woods for 20 minutes (this movie is 70 minutes long !!!). The vampire himself is not very impressive and some "effects" are truly laughable, detracting from the sense of wonder the movie had tried to create. Then, the S/M scenes: They are not what you'd expect, not like the Franco-stuff you might have seen. It's more like recreating the paintings of Bosch, and so there is little to no action in these scenes, it's more like looking at photographs. And they are very short, and in-between. So don't expect half an hour of relentless torture.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsthe aardvark says yes
By Jeffrey HIggins on October 14, 2000
Format: DVD
this is, in my mind, the greatest of all of rollin's films i've ever seen; and that includes 'living dead girl' 'fascination' 'shiver of the vampires' and this one. there are more beautiful and poetic images in this one rollin film than in any other, save perhaps 'la vampire nue', which i have yet to see. the clowns are exquisite, and the dream perpetual. the first 20 (mostly silent) minutes shiver by like a ghostly dream, encapsulating all that stands. the remainder of the film takes the dream and stretches it, turning itself to rubber, elongating and perpetuating the surrealistic structure it inhabits. anyone with a taste for european low-budget beauty should apply, anyone with a taste for rollin should jump the door.
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5.0 out of 5 starsgorgeous sensual visions
By I. French on April 29, 2001
Format: DVD
This fantastic film allows us to see the vivid fabled visions that must fill Jean Rollins' mind. The flighty narrative is liberated from sequential logic, but is positively elevated in the process. The story comes off like a flickering memory. A haunting attraction pulls us in for a rare glimpse into a dream we can't pull away from for fear of forgetting upon awakening. The characters are beautiful and frail creatures. Possessed with a determination to uphold their forbidden and blithe lust they use childlike luck to guide their journey. An unbelievably beautiful film.
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1.0 out of 5 starsIf you love vampire, and you love cheesy flicks...you'll still hate this one
By Keith Tokash on August 15, 2008
Format: DVD
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 two main characters were in a high-speed car chase/shoot-out (opening scene) because they ran away from school. WTH? What kind of schools the French had in the 70s remains a mystery, as I ditched class plenty of times and no one shot me.

This is a mini-theme. Weird and stupid things happen and no attempt is made to explain them, leading the viewer to wonder if there were several scripts, or maybe none at all.

Also, the vampires are beyond ridiculous. I'm tempted to add a star to the review because they were actually comical to behold. I think their fangs were made of little paper triangles jutting out over their lower lips. Their "attacks" consisted of pressing their faces to someone for a second and that person dramatically collapsing. That would also be funny if taken out of the context of this awful movie.

Finally, the chicks aren't that hot, so you can stop thinking you're going to get a jerkfest out of this one. There's a bizarre 5-minute scene in the middle where three women (who are hotter than the two main stars) who are chained up in the vampire's lair are raped by some henchman and start moaning like they enjoy it halfway through. This ... yeah. If you enjoy rape fantasies starring guys who look like Ron Jeremy in his later years then go for it.

The only hope this movie ever had was if the guys from Mystery Science Theater 3000 got ahold of it, which they never did.
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4.0 out of 5 starsRollin curbs his cheeseball tendencies and makes an art film.
By Robert Beveridge HALL OF FAMEVINE VOICE on April 12, 2007
Format: DVD
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 of the film asked Rollin for a single scene (which should be obvious, if you've seen more than one Rollin film) and let him free to do whatever he wanted with the rest of the movie. As such, he did quite a few things here that he'd never done before, and that he never did again.

The plot: two schoolgirls, Marie (Rollin regular Marie-Pierre Castel) and Michelle (Mirielle D'Argent, another Rollin regular, though she and Castel worked together in only two films-- this and Lips of Blood), find themselves lost in the countryside in clown suits after a high-speed chase and shootout that leaves their accomplice (Paul Bisciglia) dead. While trying to get their bearings, they wander onto the grounds of a chateau inhabited by a family of vampires, led by the enigmatic Last Vampire, who seems to have conflicting ideas on what he wants from the girls.

The first thing that will likely strike you about this movie is the almost total lack of dialogue in its first forty-five minutes. In an essentially silent movie, all you have is the visuals. And what visuals they are. There's some minor, and distracting, attempt to explain later why these two lovely young things are wandering around in clown suits. But who cares? Not Rollin, and certainly not us.Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 starsStrange and surreal

Here's another strange film from French director Jean Rollin (The Living Dead Girl and The Iron Rose). As is typical of his films, there isn't much sense to be made of the film. Read more

Published on November 18, 2011 by The Baron
5.0 out of 5 starsRollin At his Best

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Published on May 22, 2010 by William Amazzini
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i keep forgetting, that the vampire is not totally an american creation -
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Published on July 6, 2009 by Stephen G. Hartman
4.0 out of 5 starsSurreal 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. Read more

Published on June 29, 2008 by Michael Valdivielso
5.0 out of 5 starsParis 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". Read more

Published on September 7, 2005 by Mark James Drummond
1.0 out of 5 starsWARNING; 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. Read more

Published on March 26, 2005 by Roger C. Martin
5.0 out of 5 starsweird and wonderful

this is the first film by jean rollin that i saw and it really left an impression. i remember sitting there thinking "wow! Read more

Published on December 2, 2004 by d. logan
3.0 out of 5 starsElegant exploitation

Jean Rollin is definitely one filmmaker with a unique vision. But he's always been hampered by extremely low budgets and a general run of bad luck. Read more

Published on February 20, 2004 by Garry Messick
5.0 out of 5 starsBite And Suck

There's something simultaneously sexy and creepy going on here. The minimal dialogue makes this seem almost like a silent horror film. Read more

Published on April 17, 2003 by andy7
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