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What utter rubbish!!

posted 18 years ago by sc_taylor
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Amateurish production values, wooden acting, shockingly bad editing...but the worst part is that it is chaotic and directionless. Completely lacking in anything you could call a plot, and basically just an excuse for a few flashes of flesh.

Ok, ok,.. I know that you genre-philes will go on and on about it being a perfect example of the vampire flick, blah blah. But really?! Who would want to sit through such tedious piffle (except a 13 year-old goth perhaps, for whom the briefest glimpse of a cross, a white face, some blood and some flowing 18th century chiffon is enough).

Oh dear.

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[–] NostalgiaDrag 17 years ago

Dude, how can you not like this movie? It has LESBIANS! What's wrong with you? Jean Rollin is a genius.

[–] TruthPredator 10 years ago

and the lesbians are real ones..no butches acting like men.

[–] angelfox 17 years ago

couldnt agree more.you have described this pointless drivel perfectly

REBEL WITH A CAUSE

[–] NostalgiaDrag 17 years ago

You'd have to be GAY not to dig the sh!t out of this flick.

[–] orchidclub 16 years ago

I'm gay and I dig the sh!t out of this flick.

And no, I'm not a lesbian. ;)

[–] richithekiller 12 years ago

I'm not gay or a lebian but I dig the sh!t out of this on blu-ray with two exteded sex scenes!

[–] RomeoInDespair 12 years ago

How can you not love it!?The opening is so dizzying and then it starts with one of the most disturbing images i've seen (Blood lipstick).The cinemtagrophy is amazing.Every shot looks like its from some nightmare.This comes to a head during the barn secene.It starts with sex then without warning she kills him then she does the same to the others.In any normal movie the secne wolud end here.But rollin instead creates such a nightmarish image of her rushing toward the camara at such a low angle.I can clearly see him being inspired by kubricks clockwork orange this when he filmed it.

[–] RomeoInDespair 12 years ago

And it isn't a vampire flick.Its about blood fetishism

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[–] blackstone454 11 years ago

I just saw it a couple hours ago. It was a bit odd...But it had some BATHORY vibe to it. Blood and seduction.

It has a plot. It's not difficult to follow: a bunch of rich, bisexual, psychopathic women have fun by killing men to drink their blood.

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[–] timlin-4 11 years ago

It has its moments, but the film is badly put together. I like to think the director spent most of the day just telling the naked girls exactly how to pose and then hurriedly did the work

[–] RomeoInDespair 11 years ago

Well you have to understand the film had no script. The entire thing comes from a bunch of nightmares the director had. Or so I've heard