The Nude Vampire
The Nude Vampire is a 1970 film from France, directed by Jean Rollin, running 90 minutes. reelscum files it under euro-gothic.
- Year
- 1970 · 1970s films
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Director
- Jean Rollin
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (47/100)
- Also known as
- The Nude Vampire
Defined in the glossary: Euro-gothic
A secret society, a Paris chateau, and dream logic all the way down.
Early Rollin, and one of his more plotted films, which is not saying much. A young man becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman held by a secret society conducting strange experiments, and the film unfolds as pop-art occult mystery in bright, artificial colour.
The masks, the modernist interiors and the dream logic mark it as Rollin working out his obsessions, closer to a fashion shoot than a horror film. It is stranger and more stylised than frightening.
An acquired taste, and an early key to one of exploitation's true originals.
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