La fiancée de Dracula (2002)

Note des utilisateurs:

5.2/10   

Réalisateur:

Jean Rollin

Scénariste:

Jean Rollin (writer)

Release Date:

14 août 2002 (France)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

A Van Helsing-like professor and his protegé are tracking Dracula's descendants through the world of "parallels"...

Plot Keywords:

Nun | Beautiful Woman | Castle | Sexy Female Vampire | Cemetery

Avis des utilisateurs:

LA Fiancée' DE Dracula (Jean Rollin, 2000) **

Ensemble

Cyrille Iste	...	Isabelle
Jacques Orth	...	Le professeur (as Jacques Régis)
Thomas Smith	...	Thibault
Sandrine Thoquet	...	La vampire
Magalie Madison	...	L'ogresse / La folle (as Magalie Aguado)
Céline Mauge	...	Soeur Toutière
Marie-Laurence	...	Mère supérieure Paris
Danièle Servais-Orth	...	Mère supérieure îles Chausey
Denis Tallaron	...	Eric
Sabine Lenoël	...	Soeur Marthe
Céline Clémentel	...	Soeur Simplicité
Mira Petri	...	Soeur Cigare
Marianna Palmieri	...	Soeur Bouffarde
Bernard Musson	...	Le sorcier
Nathalie Perrey	...	La sorcière (as Natalie Perrey)

Autre(s) titre(s):

Le retour de Dracula

Durée:

91 min

Pays:

France

Langue:

Français

Couleur:

Couleur

Classification:

France:U | Germany:16

Company:

Avia Films

Movie Connections:

References Le frisson des vampires (1971)

LA Fiancée' DE Dracula (Jean Rollin, 2000) **

The fifth Rollin film I've watched naturally features a good deal of nudity and gore: it's bizarre and incoherent, to put it mildly, but undeniably fascinating for all that - even if, unfortunately, the TV reception got messed up during the first few minutes of the film!

Coincidentally, it emerges as yet another "Nunsploitation" film (which followed my first-time viewing of SATANICO PANDEMONIUM [1973]!; see review above) - apart from being an esoteric vampire (and zombie) flick!! We also have here an interesting depiction of the effect which the chosen (but unbalanced!) vampire bride-to-be leaves on the order of nuns who harbor her. These, then, have been given silly names pertaining to their idiosyncracies, like Sister Pipe and Sister Cigar (given their smoking preferences) or Sister Funnel (which is what one of them unaccountably keeps on her head)!; likewise, there's a (cave-dwelling) ogress and a (horse-riding!) she-wolf on hand - but these carry no make-up whatsoever, save for the latter's talons!!

As for the Dracula figure (who uses an old grandfather clock as a teleporting device!), however, he's as under-developed here as he had been in Jess Franco's comparable (and almost identically-titled) LA FILLE DE Dracula (1972)! The film's climax - featuring Rollin's beloved seaside setting - is totally wacky, with mad nuns attacking Dracula's horde of disciples (including a couple of old crones and a love-struck dwarf-jester!) and the ogress (a veritable female zombie but a sexy one!) feasting on a naked vampire, before the latter is eventually fried by the oncoming sunlight!!

While the flat digital shooting manages, for the most part, not to obliterate the typically dream-like mood created for the film, its cast includes a comeback to Rollin territory for Brigitte Lahaie as the she-wolf I mentioned above (by the way, I should be watching her first horror film for him - THE GRAPES OF DEATH [1978] - soon) and Bunuel regular Bernard Musson(!). Rollin's latest offering is the only one I've watched from him of recent vintage; while not exactly a good film, it's certainly unique for these times - and, frankly, I'm more interested than ever now to watch a contemporaneous Franco effort (if anything for comparison's sake)...