French Vampire Collection On Dvd

I have never seen these french vampire movies, the reviews below are certainly not stellar. However any one of these movies might be ok for rental -

Horror Guy Says:
For the die hard vamp fans ~

The Vampire Collection (The Rape of the Vampire / The Shiver of the Vampires / Requiem for a Vampire)
It’s terror times three with these bloodsucking classics from Jean Rollin, France’s maestro of the macabre. Enter a world filled with gothic castles, nubile beauties in various stages of undress, and predatory vampires, with haunting music and images bound to linger in your nightmares. Bet you can’t take just one bite! These adult fairy tales of the monstrous and mysterious represent three of Rollin’s finest achievements. Includes his controversial first “banned” film, “Rape of the Vampire,” the outrageously colorful “Shiver of the Vampires,” and his biggest box office hit, “Requiem for a Vampire,” also known as “Caged Virgins” and “Virgins and Vampires.”

Customer Review: Painting as Cinema
This collection of 3 films will be best enjoyed by those with an understanding of surrealist or symbolist painting. Otherwise if you are not familiar with the motivations behind these movements, you will find yourself bored by the lack of plot and character development, and slow pacing. Even your average ‘B’ movie fan will be disappointed here - despite the low budgets - there are not enough laughs here to make it a good fun night with your friends. Instead Rollin approaches these films with lofty ambitions and in the main part succeeds in creating some memorable images. The first half of Rape of the Vampire is a great and striking short film. The second half is obviously tacked on and is completely incomprehensible.

Shiver of the Vampires in contrast to the black and white of ROTV has impressive use of colour and is probably the strongest of the three films. Requiem for a Vampire, is the slowest paced of the three, building up to some jaw dropping, sadistic torture scenes that evoke the legend of Countess Bathory. If you can imagine a hammer horror with gallic/new wave/surrealist spices added in to the mix - you’ll have an idea of what to expect.

Customer Review: French Vamp Collection
Very Arty , & very French , leaves you to fill in the spaces alot .

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