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Caroline Cartier | ... |
Vampire
(as Christine François)
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Olivier Rollin | ... |
Pierre Radamante
(as Olivier Martin)
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Maurice Lemaître | ... |
Georges Radamante
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Bernard Musson | ... |
Voringe
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Jean Aron | ... |
Fredor
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Ursule Pauly | ... |
Solange
(as Ursula Pauly)
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Catherine Castel | ... |
Georges' servant
(as Cathy Tricot)
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| Marie-Pierre Castel | ... |
Georges' servant
(as Pony Tricot)
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Michel Delahaye | ... |
Grandmaster
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Pascal Fardoulis | ... |
Robert
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Paul Bisciglia | ... |
Butler
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René-Jean Chauffard | ... |
Old man
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Natalie Perrey | ... |
Old woman
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Ly Lestrong | ... |
Ly
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Christine François |
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Wealthy and decadent industrialist Georges Radamante rules over a strange secret suicide cult and wants to achieve immortality by figuring out a way to share the biochemistry of a young mute orphaned vampire woman. Complications ensue when Radamante's son Pierre finds out what's going on and falls for the comely lass. Written by Woodyanders
The eighth Jean Rollin film I have watched is also possibly the weirdest; the intriguing plot (such as it is) seems initially to be too flimsy to sustain even its trim 84 minutes but it somehow contrives to get inordinately muddled as it goes along! A would-be female vampire (scantily-clad, as promised by the title) is held in captivity inside a remote château and emerges only to 'feast' on the blood of willing victims (who are apparently members of a suicide club) As if unsure where all of this would lead him, the writer-director ultimately has the human villain actually the blank-faced hero's kinky father ludicrously revealed as a mutant(?!) from the future! The languorous pace and dream-like atmosphere (the cultists wear hoods and animal masks to hide their features from the sheltered girl) are, of course, typical of both the film-maker (ditto the seashore setting at the {anti}climax) and the "Euro-Cult" style, as are the bevy of nubile beauties on display. Personally, the most enjoyable thing about the whole visually attractive but intellectually vacuous affair was watching familiar character actor Bernard Musson (who appeared in six latter-day Luis Bunuel films) crop up bemusedly through it from time to time!