DVD Review: Requiem For A Vampire
Requiem For A Vampire (1971)
Studio: Redemption Films
DVD Release Date: February 24, 2009
Directed By: Jean Rollin
Cast: Marie-Pierre Castel, Mireille Dargent, Phillipe Gaste, Louise Dhour & Dominique Toussaint
Review By: Annie Riordan
Teenagers Marie and Michelle are best friends, partners in crime and sometime-lesbian lovers. They’ve managed to escape from their school disguised as clowns, but their getaway driver has died in the shootout which followed. Goddamned, those Europeans run some seriously strict schools – I thought the Koreans were bad!
After swapping their clown getups for their sexy little schoolgirl uniforms complete with knee socks, they take off on a motorcycle, steal some french fries from a roadside vendor and wander around a cemetery for a bit. When Marie is nearly buried alive by a couple of clueless gravediggers, the girls hightail it to the nearest chateau, remarkably clean and dirt free despite several tumbles in the woods and the aforementioned attempted burial. Must be some heavy duty Scotch Guard shit they’re using.
At the chateau, they discover a small group of vampires – two women and one ancient man – who are aided and protected by three hairy, horny guys. The vamps plan to transform the virgin girls into vamps once the master has had his way with them, but Marie lucks out and finds some dipshit to lose her virginity to before night can fall. Is this the end of her friendship with Michelle?
Yeah, um….that’s about it as far as plot goes. This isn’t so much a movie as it is an hour and 28 minute long hump-a-thon. When the girls aren’t swapping their schoolgirl outfits for their clown costumes and back again, they’re wandering around staring at things and watching glassy-eyed as the hairy guards bang the holy old shit out of some hapless half naked girls chained to dungeon walls. 75% of this flick is boobies being groped and close-up shots of incredibly hairy 70s beavers. Oh well, at least they match the girls hairy armpits.
This is a porno flick trying to pass itself off as a vampire movie and not doing a very good job in either department. The girls are extremely pretty – especially the bleach blond Marie (who apparently has a twin sister floating around out there somewhere – oh the possibilities that might have been!) – but it drags on far too long without enough story to support it. I’ve had more arousing pelvic exams.
Brutal As Hell Rating:
2 out of 5
