The Rape of the Vampire 4K (Le viol du vampire avec VF) Limited Edition (1968)
de Jean Rollin
Powerhouse Films - 28 août 2023
Titre Original :
Audio : Français, English
Sous-titres : English SDH
Durée : 1h40
Format : 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray Digipack Limited Edition / import UK
Zone : Toutes zones / B
Genre : Horreur, Erotique
Synopsis
This low budget first film from director Jean Rollin is in reality two very loosely-connected, surreally erotic shorts about vampirism. In the first, three Parisians including a psychoanalyst try to convince four neurotic sisters living in a decaying country chateau that their belief that they are 200 year old vampires is false. The alluring young women are influenced and controlled by a enigmatic disembodied voice which turns out to be the an aging, aristocratic lord of the manor, whose motives are unclear but clearly perverse. Local rustics unite to hunt down and kill the sanguine siblings. In the second, the Queen of the Vampires and her acolytes arrive on the scene, resurrect the dead, and promulgate the cause of the Undead while a medical researcher works to find an antidote to vampirism.
- New 4K HDR restoration from the original negative by Powerhouse Films
- 4K (2160p) UHD presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
- Original French mono soundtrack
- Audio commentary with writer-director Jean Rollin (2007)
- Audio commentary with film expert and author Tim Lucas (2023)
- Jean Rollin Introduces ‘The Rape of the Vampire’ (1998): filmed appraisal
- Jean Rollin on ‘The Rape of the Vampire’ (2007): the director in conversation with festival programmer and journalist Joshua T Gravel at the Fantasia Film Festival, Montreal
- Fragments of Pavement Under Sand (2023): updated documentary on the making of The Rape of the Vampire, directed by Rollin’s personal assistant, Daniel Gouyette, and including interviews with key collaborators Jean-Denis Bonan, Jean-Pierre Bouyxou and Jean-Loup Philippe
- New interview with Jean-Denis Bonan, editor of The Rape of the Vampire and assistant director on The Far Countries (2023)
- Newly edited archival interview with actor Jacqueline Sieger (2023)
- Newly edited archival interview with actor Alain Yves Beaujour (2023)
- Newly edited archival interview with actor Jean-Loup Philippe (2023)
- Newly edited archival interview with composer François Tusques (2023)
- Critical appreciation by author and film historian Virginie Sélavy (2023)
- Alternative scene
- Super 8 version: cut-down home cinema presentation
- 4K restoration of The Far Countries (Les Pays loins, 1965): Rollin’s second fictional short film tells of a couple lost in a maze of streets who can’t remember how they got there
- The Far Countries audio commentary with Rollin (2007)
- L’Itinéraire Souvenir (2018): artistic reconstruction of Rollin’s lost work from 1962 by filmmakers Victor Poucalow and Raja Tawil
- Original theatrical trailer
- Image galleries: promotional and publicity material, and behind the scenes
- New and improved English translation subtitles
- Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with a new essay by Beatrice Loayza, archival writing by Jean Rollin on the making of the film, an archival interview with the director by Peter Blumenstock, Jean Rollin’s recollections of shooting The Far Countries, and full film credits
- World premiere on 4K UHD