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Isle (Sandra Julien) and Antoine (Jean-Marie Durand) just got married,
and on the way to their honeymoon, Isle insists on visiting her two
cousins (Jacques Robiolles, Michel Delahaye) ... but when she arrives at
their place, she learns from Isabelle (Nicole Nancel), the fiancée of
both ot them (!), that they have died just the other day. Still, the
servant girls of the cousins (Marie-Pierre Castel, Kuelan Herce) have
prepared everything for Isle's and Antoine's arrival, and invite them to
stay.
When they go to bed though, Isle insists that they sleep in seperate
rooms and not consummate their marriage. That same night, out of a
grandfather clock in Isle's room, steps vampire Isolde (Dominique) and
seduces Isle. Meanwhile, Antoine wanders around in the castle and
witnesses the maids performing some pagan ritual - which doesn't exactly
calm his nerves.
The next day, the thought-to-be-dead cousins turn up very much alive
(but of course, the audience knows they are vampires), and Isle feels
strangely drawn to them, while before long, she can't stand the sun
anymore (yes, she has been bitten by Isolde. By and by, Antoine gets a
faint idea of what's going on, but he has no means convincing his wife to
leave. The cousins meanwhile plan to make Isle their consort, much to the
dismay of Isolde, their current consort. Ultimately, they even reveal
their being vampires to Antoine, even invite him to join them - which he
utterly refuses.
Finally, Antloine can persuade the servant girls - who are not vampires
- to help him in defeating the vampires and thus free themselves. So
shortly before sunrise, when the vampires are supposed to go back to their coffins, the
girls remove all the covers from the crucifixes, denying the vampires
access to their graves.
Antoine meanwhile carries Isle - not yet a vampire - to the beach, far
enough away from the vampires as the thinks ... but the cousins have
followed them and beg Isle to join them, even though, with the sun about
to rise and their coffins to far away, they are doomed and have only
minutes to live. Isle does indeed join them, and they bite her to become a
vampire, just before the sun rises and takes the lives of all three of
them ...
A typical Jean Rollin film, deliberately slow-moving, lyrical in
atmosphere, featuring surrealist elements as well as elements directly
from pulp horror, and of course also featuring vampires, a few naked girls and some
lesbian sex - done in an elegant but not glossy way. The average horror fan
or gorehound might not be too interested in Jean Rollin's oeuvre, but if
you are familiar with his films, this is one of the best (and most
typical) of them. And if you are just looking for somewhing different, a
bit sexy, you might like this one as well.
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