The Shiver of the Vampires
The Shiver of the Vampires is a 1971 film from France, directed by Jean Rollin, running 95 minutes. reelscum files it under euro-gothic.
- Year
- 1971 · 1970s films
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Director
- Jean Rollin
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (41/100)
- Also known as
- Strange Things Happen at Night · Thrill of the Vampires · Sex and Vampires · Terror of the Vampires · Thrill of the Vampire · Vampire Thrills
Defined in the glossary: Euro-gothic
Rollin with a fuzz-guitar band and a vampire who lives in the clock. His most fun.
Rollin's third vampire film, and the one where he plugs in a rock band. A honeymooning couple arrive at a remote chateau to find the bride's two cousins have turned vampire, now given to lecturing at length between feedings, while a predatory servant named Isolde makes her entrances out of a grandfather clock. The psych band Acanthus provides a fuzz-guitar score that has no business working over cobwebbed crypts and works completely. As ever with Rollin, narrative is optional and mood is the whole budget: candlelit stone, naked figures drifting through ruins, a dream that forgot to end. His most colourful and least sleepy film, and a good place to find out whether he is for you.
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