The Nude Vampire (Blu-ray)
Wealthy industrialist Georges Radamante (Maurice Lemaitre) has dreams of immortality. Not through his own achievements, but by finding a way to share the biochemistry of the mute, orphaned vampire woman (Catherine Cartier) who has been raised by hooded needle-stickers in isolation, deprived of exposure to human faces. Radamante's son Pierre (Olivier Martin, Rollin's real-life brother) innocently complicates matters while trying to infiltrate his father's private club. It is love at first sight and Pierre determines to liberate his beloved, a goal which attracts the companionship of other vampires, who plan a torch-carrying siege of Radamante's palatial compound.
Rollin's first color film and his first collaboration with director of photography Jean-Jacques Renon, THE NUDE VAMPIRE (La Vampire nue) is a curiously science fiction-tinged story in the then-fashionable style of Jean-Claude Forrest (Barbarella) and Metal Hurlant artists Jean "Moebius" Giraud and Philippe Druillet, who was in fact recruited to design the film's poster.
(excerpt of the essay by Tim Lucas)
- Mastered in HD from the original 35mm negative
- French with optional English subtitles
- English dubbed version
- Introduction by Jean Rollin (2 min.)
- Interview with Natalie Perrey (4 min.)
- French and English theatrical trailers
- Original trailers of four other Rollin films
- Jean Rollin - Director
- Jean Rollin - Writer
- S.H. Mosti - Writer
- Maurice Lemaitre - Actor
- Rene-Jean Chauffard - Actor
- Olivier Rollin - Actor
- Caroline Cartier - Actor
- Jean-Jacques Renon - Cinematographer
- Yvon Serault - Composer
- Jean Lavie - Producer
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"Rollin was one of the genre's most dependable judges of macabre beauty and splendor." - Tim Lucas, Editor of VIDEO WATCHDOG
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