Lévres de Sang
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Lèvres de Sang is a 1975 vampire film directed by Jean Rollin
. The film tells the story of a man who begins to have visions of a young woman dressed in white who is locked behind the gates of a Château
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Jennifer, the girl from the château, begins to appear to Frédéric in a number of visions, but she does not speak to him, which makes it much more difficult to find her at the Château. On one of her appearances, Jennifer leads Frédéric to a cemetery where she makes him open up a number of coffins that unleash a hoard of female vampires. Frédéric runs off and is soon met by a woman claiming to be Jennifer as she would be now. The woman leads him to an abandoned apartment block and locks him in, as the real Jennifer watches from a distance. The woman is then killed by the vampires, who free Frédéric. A man with a gun almost kills Frédéric, but he manages to escape him and go home, where his mother has him committed to a mental hospital. It was also his mother who had the woman and the man with the gun stop him from finding the Château.
At the hospital Jennifer appears to him again, but he begins to doubt his sanity when she doesn't speak. The vampires show up at the hospital and kill his psychiatrist and let him escape. walking along the streets, Frédéric buys a postcard from a blind man which is of the Château, the name of it is 'Sauveterre Castle'. as he boards a train, Jennifer appears once more to him and smiles, knowing that he is on his way to her. Once at the Château he is met by the vampires and then find Jennifer's coffin which is surrounded by a shrine, but before he opens it his mother appears in the doorway and tells him not to free Jennifer and that he didn't imagine meeting her as a young boy. She explains that she is a vampire and she infected several people including the four female vampires he freed. As daylight sets in Frédéric's mother and a group of men hunt and kill the four vampires, she asks Frédéric to kill Jennifer. He brings the head of a doll which his mother thinks is Jennifer's head to be burnt along with the four other vampires. Frédéric and Jennifer go to the beach, and she is happy to be seeing daylight after 20 years. Jennifer bites Frédéric and they climb into the coffin to let the tide take them out into the ocean.
Released in the UK by Redemption on 29 March 2004 in a widescreen letterboxed 1.65:1 version, a French dolby digital 2.0 audio track and English subtitles. The special features include: theatrical trailer, stills gallery, posters, advertising, video art and a music video.
Released in Europe by Encore Entertainment on 30 November 2005 in a 3-disc limited edition set with a new anamorphic widescreen 1.78:1 version, a French dolby digital 2.0 audio track with English, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Polish subtitles. The special features include: introduction by Jean Rollin, This Beach That Follows Me featurette, interview with Jean-Loup Philippe, interview with Nathalie Perrey, interview with Serge Rollin, interview with Catherine Castel, photo gallery, selected scenes commentary with Jean Rollin, Les Amours Jaunes short film, French theatrical trailer, Les Démoniaques
trailer, Requiem pour un Vampire
French trailer and 64 page booklet.
Jean Rollin
Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his films in the fantastique genre such as the vampire film Le Viol du Vampire and the first French gore film Les Raisins de la Mort .-Early life:Jean Rollin was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine , France to...
. The film tells the story of a man who begins to have visions of a young woman dressed in white who is locked behind the gates of a Château
Château
A château is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor or a country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally—and still most frequently—in French-speaking regions...
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Synopsis
At a reception for the launch of a new perfume, a man named Frédéric sees a photo of the ruins of an old château by the sea. His mind takes him back to when he was a young boy, walking up to the gate of the château and speaking with a girl who appears to be a little older than he is. Frédéric opens the gate and the girl tells him to go to sleep, and later she returns and wakes him, he leaves her and closes the gate behind him. The girl tells him to open the gate but he promises her that he will be back to free her. Frédéric's mind comes back to reality and he becomes convinced that the meeting between him and the girl actually happened. He tells his mother who begins to act strangely and tells him he must have imagined it, he doesn't agree and sets out to find this girl and set her free.Jennifer, the girl from the château, begins to appear to Frédéric in a number of visions, but she does not speak to him, which makes it much more difficult to find her at the Château. On one of her appearances, Jennifer leads Frédéric to a cemetery where she makes him open up a number of coffins that unleash a hoard of female vampires. Frédéric runs off and is soon met by a woman claiming to be Jennifer as she would be now. The woman leads him to an abandoned apartment block and locks him in, as the real Jennifer watches from a distance. The woman is then killed by the vampires, who free Frédéric. A man with a gun almost kills Frédéric, but he manages to escape him and go home, where his mother has him committed to a mental hospital. It was also his mother who had the woman and the man with the gun stop him from finding the Château.
At the hospital Jennifer appears to him again, but he begins to doubt his sanity when she doesn't speak. The vampires show up at the hospital and kill his psychiatrist and let him escape. walking along the streets, Frédéric buys a postcard from a blind man which is of the Château, the name of it is 'Sauveterre Castle'. as he boards a train, Jennifer appears once more to him and smiles, knowing that he is on his way to her. Once at the Château he is met by the vampires and then find Jennifer's coffin which is surrounded by a shrine, but before he opens it his mother appears in the doorway and tells him not to free Jennifer and that he didn't imagine meeting her as a young boy. She explains that she is a vampire and she infected several people including the four female vampires he freed. As daylight sets in Frédéric's mother and a group of men hunt and kill the four vampires, she asks Frédéric to kill Jennifer. He brings the head of a doll which his mother thinks is Jennifer's head to be burnt along with the four other vampires. Frédéric and Jennifer go to the beach, and she is happy to be seeing daylight after 20 years. Jennifer bites Frédéric and they climb into the coffin to let the tide take them out into the ocean.
Cast
- Jean-Loup PhilippeJean-Loup PhilippeJean-Loup Philippe is a French actor, witer and director of film and theatre He is best known for his role in Jean Rollin's 1974 horror classic Lèvres de sang.-Career:...
- Frédéric - Annie BelleAnnie BelleAnnie Brilland is a French actress and social worker. Her acting career began in 1974 and throughout the seventies, has had a series of varied roles in both French and Italian cinema, working with such directors as Jean Rollin, Ruggero Deodato and Joe D'Amato.-Early life:Belle was born in Paris,...
- Jennifer (credited as Annie Briand) - Nathalie PerreyNathalie PerreyNathalie Perrey is a French actress and crew member and has been on many films, mainly of director Jean Rollin.-Career:...
- La Mère de Frédéric - Martine Grimaud
- Catherine CastelCatherine Castel-Career:She is best known for appearing in films directed by Jean Rollin, alongside her twin sister Marie-Pierre Castel. Catherine has appeared in sereral Rollin films with Marie-pierre including his vampire classics The Nude Vampire and Lips of Blood and his erotic films Bacchanales Sexuelles and...
- Jumelle Vampire - Marie-Pierre Castel - Jumelle Vampire
- Hélène Maquin
- Anita Berglund
- Claudine BeccarieClaudine BeccarieClaudine Beccarie was a French pornographic actress of the 1970s.She started her porn career early in 1972 with an 8 mm loop of Lasse Braun, released in the Netherlands...
- Claudine - Béatrice Harnois
- Sylvia BourdonSylvia BourdonSylvia Bourdon is a French former porn star. She made her first appearances in loops shot in the Netherlands and distributed clandestinely in France...
- Mireille DargentMireille DargentMireille Dargent is a French film actress.-Career:She is best known for appearing in Jean Rollin films, most notably her role in the horror classic Requiem for a Vampire, alongside Marie-Pierre Castel in the two leading roles...
- Paul BiscigliaPaul Bisciglia-Career:Throughout his acting career, Bisciglia appeared in more than one-hundred feature films. He made his debut in the 1950 film Trois télégrammes. What followed was several uncredited roles, before landing a much larger part in drama Clara de Montargis...
- Le Psychiatre - Willy Braque - Le Tueur
- Julien Etchevery
- Serge Rollin - Frédéric enfant
- Jean RollinJean RollinJean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his films in the fantastique genre such as the vampire film Le Viol du Vampire and the first French gore film Les Raisins de la Mort .-Early life:Jean Rollin was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine , France to...
- Le Gardien du Cimetière (uncredited)
DVD releases
Released in the US by Image Entertainment on 9 November 1999 in a widescreen letterboxed 1.65:1 version, a French dolby digital 1.0 audio track and English subtitles. The special features include: stills gallery and director's filmography. The film was released again in the US by Redemption films on 29 July 2008 in its original widescreen version, and a French dolby digital 2.0 audio track with English subtitles. The extras include: introduction by Jean Rollin, interview with Jean-Loup Philippe, interview with Nathalie Perrey, trailers for Killer's Moon and Nature Morte and a stills gallery.Released in the UK by Redemption on 29 March 2004 in a widescreen letterboxed 1.65:1 version, a French dolby digital 2.0 audio track and English subtitles. The special features include: theatrical trailer, stills gallery, posters, advertising, video art and a music video.
Released in Europe by Encore Entertainment on 30 November 2005 in a 3-disc limited edition set with a new anamorphic widescreen 1.78:1 version, a French dolby digital 2.0 audio track with English, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Polish subtitles. The special features include: introduction by Jean Rollin, This Beach That Follows Me featurette, interview with Jean-Loup Philippe, interview with Nathalie Perrey, interview with Serge Rollin, interview with Catherine Castel, photo gallery, selected scenes commentary with Jean Rollin, Les Amours Jaunes short film, French theatrical trailer, Les Démoniaques
Les Démoniaques
Les Démoniaques is a 1974 film directed by Jean Rollin, about a group of shipwrecked sailors who brutally rape two young woman and the woman re-emerge after making a pact with the devil to get their revenge.-Plot:...
trailer, Requiem pour un Vampire
Requiem pour un Vampire
Requiem pour un Vampire is a 1971 erotic horror film directed by Jean Rollin, about two young woman who find themselves trapped with no escape in a haunted castle ruled by a hoard of sexually blood crazed vampires.-Plot:...
French trailer and 64 page booklet.
External links
- Lévres de Sang at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
- Lévres de Sang at Flixter
- Lévres de Sang at Rotten TomatoesRotten TomatoesRotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films—widely known as a film review aggregator. Its name derives from the cliché of audiences throwing tomatoes and other vegetables at a poor stage performance...