A Virgin Among the Living Dead

One of Jess Franco's dreamiest films, in which a young woman arrives at a remote chateau to settle her late father's estate and finds it inhabited by relatives who may already be dead. Almost nothing happens in any conventional sense; the film drifts through a landscape of grief and unreality closer to Rollin than to standard horror.

Distributors later hacked in zombie footage shot by someone else to make it saleable, which tells you how uncommercial Franco's original was. In its intended form it is a melancholy, hallucinatory mood piece.

Slow, strange and haunting for viewers on its wavelength.