Tales Of Terror - The Haunted Apartments

 

Aimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not normal here. The landlord warns Aimi and her father of the curfew. First, all residents must cross the rope in front of the property by midnight. Second, no one can move out until a new tenant arrives. Those brave enough to break the rules are unmercifully killed by a mysterious force. Aimi begins to see visions of a girl that doesn't exist. She learns that a girl named Ai lived here 30 years ago before she vanished one day on her way home from school. Aimi is driven to find out more about her. She learns that Ai wasn't abducted, but in fact came back to the building the day she disappeared. Can Aimi learn the horrible truth of what happened to Ai? And what is the dark, disturbing secret that the two girls share?

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Devil (2010)

Director: John Erick Dowdle
Writers: Brian Nelson (screenplay), M. Night Shyamalan (story)
Stars: Chris Messina, Caroline Dhavernas, Bokeem Woodbine
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English | Ukrainian | Spanish
Release Date: 17 September 2010 (USA)
Also Known As: Devil
Filming Locations: Pennsylvania, USA

In Philadelphia, Detective Bowden is still grieving for his wife and son, killed in a hit-and-run five years ago. When someone jumps from a skyscraper onto a truck, Bowden is sent to investigate. Meanwhile, five strangers are trapped in an elevator in the building where the jumper committed suicide. The communication radio in the elevator is broken but the guards, Lustig and Ramirez, observe the individuals via CCTV as events unfold. Tensions run high among those trapped, so Lustig calls the police and Detective Bowden assumes the case. Without being able to contact the individuals, he tries to work out who they are, but he can only account for four of them. Time is running out for the occupants of the elevator, as Bowden realizes he has to get them out quickly.

Produced by M. Night Shyamalan, Devil is an intense supernatural thriller. The story follows five strangers who get stuck in an elevator and begin to turn on each other after one of them is attacked and killed during a power outage, meanwhile some unknown force seemingly prevents rescue from the outside. The script is especially well-written, and really brings dramatic tension to the situation. The storytelling too is quite engrossing; drawing the audience into the mystery of who the characters are and what is happening. A riveting and well-crafted film, Devil does an extraordinary job at exploring the themes of paranoia and fear.

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A Field in England (2013)

Director: Ben Wheatley
Writer: Amy Jump
Stars: Julian Barratt, Peter Ferdinando, Richard Glover
Genres: Drama | History | Horror | Mystery
Country: UK
Language: English
Release Date: 5 July 2013 (UK)
Also Known As: A Field in England
Filming Locations: Hampton Estate, Seale, Farnham, Surrey, England, UK

Fleeing for their lives, a small party abandon their Civil War confederates and escape through an overgrown field. Thinking only of what lay behind, they are ambushed by two dangerous men and made to search the field. Psychedelia, madness and chaotic forces slowly overtake the group as they question what treasure lies within the malignant field.


Many people may highly disagree with this sentiment, but I believe 'A Field in England' to be a masterpiece. It is a mind-blowing wartime odyssey that pushes the boundaries of narrative cinema, filled with shocks and surprises at nearly every turn. Experimenting with editing and filmmaking techniques to the point of psychedelic madness, Ben Wheatley crafts one of the most successfully surreal works of cinema I have thus far seen. Everything from the often hilarious writing to the hypnotic score is finely injected with intense talent and, in my opinion, enormous entertainment value. The amount of thrills and laughs in this movie totally subverts the idea that art house cinema is often "boring." This film is so alive and free and refuses to surrender to most cinematic norms, and yet it still follows a coherent narrative with memorable and enjoyable characters and genuine suspense; it nearly reaches the heights of a David Lynch masterpiece in terms of its ability to mix radical experimentation and surrealism with an engaging and cohesive story. Since Lynch is by far my favourite filmmaker, that is high praise. Anyone who is willing to be confused, appalled, and oddly amused owes it to his or herself to see this insane work of cinematic psychedelia.

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Something Creeping in the Dark (1971)

Director: Mario Colucci
Writer: Mario Colucci

Genres: Horror

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Release Date: 25 April 1975 (USA)

A group of stranded travelers takes refuge in an old abandoned house, only to find out that they are not the only residents of the building.

I first became aware of this (and its equally obscure director) via the *** star rating on the "Giallo" section of the "Cult Filmz" website; incidentally, I also did not know that Farley Granger had worked so extensively in Italy – in that Luchino Visconti's SENSO (1954) was no fluke (I recently watched him in a hybrid poliziottesco/giallo, and another good one it was, Massimo Dallamano's WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOUR DAUGHTERS? [1974])! Having mentioned the latter, this too is as much a horror piece as a giallo since it involves a manifestation brought about by a séance conducted at dead-of-night. The cast is quite interesting – not only mixing familiar/international names (including, apart from the afore-mentioned American actor, Italians Lucia Bose' and Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) with unknown faces, but there are even a couple of behind-the-camera personnel (producer Dino Fazio and renowned composer Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, who also supplies a fine moody score) in the significant roles of Police Inspector and Professor/Occultist respectively! The plot is the typical 'old dark house' routine throwing myriad characters together, stranded by bad weather in a remote and forbidding environment (adding plenty of atmosphere to the already dour brew); harking back to Agatha Christie's much-filmed "And Then There Were None" prototype rather than the traditional stalk'n'slash formula, it is something of a quintessential offering (thus undeservedly overlooked) in this regard. By the way, the notion of having the spirit at large possessing members of the household in turn to commit mayhem would be adopted by Hollywood much later for the not-too-bad IDENTITY (2003)! The still attractive (and former Miss Italy) Bose' was on something of a latter-day roll during this period – since, among others, she made two similarly notable (and likewise strange) efforts i.e. Romolo Guerrieri's THE DOUBLE (1971) and Giulio Questi's extremely-rare ARCANA (1972); unfortunately, her character is made to expire halfway through, but the actress nonetheless makes a lasting impression. Ditto Granger, uncharacteristically cast here as a hardened criminal, pretty much retains the youthful looks that had served the Hollywood veteran so well in his heyday; the film's marvelous – if somewhat abrupt – finale has him as the ghost's latest 'fall guy', to adopt a noir phrase (a genre which tended to elicit the best from the actor).

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Ghost Photos: The Cursed Images (2006)

Director: Kôta Yoshida
Genres: Horror
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Release Date: 25 August 2006 (Japan)

Toshiko, a high school student, and her brother find a camera in their grandfather's bedroom. Later on, she receives a message to her cell phone from her brother; in this message there is a mysterious picture of a dark forest where an unknown woman is standing. From that moment on, strange things begin to happen to Toshiko, including visions of a strange looking girl. She decides to talk to one of her best friends about it and she tells Toshiko that there is an urban legend about a girl lost in a forest. Soon, Tashiko discovers that there is more about the legend than she actually knows, and it is closer to her than she can imagine.

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The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

Director: Robert Fuest
Writers: James Whiton, William Goldstein
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Country: UK
Language: English | Hebrew
Release Date: 18 May 1971 (USA)

Doctors are being murdered in bizarre manners - bats, bees, a killer frog mask, etc. - which represent the nine Biblical plagues of Egypt. The crimes are orchestrated by an organ-playing, demented madman (from his home base, replete with a clockwork orchestra and help from a beautiful, mute assistant). Detectives are stumped until they find that all the slain doctors once assisted a Dr. Vesalius on an unsuccessful operation involving the wife of organist Dr. Phibes, killed in a car crash upon learning of his wife's death. He couldn't be the culprit, could he?

Vincent Price bashers accuse him of being a ham. Now Price was capable of restrained performances, just have a look at 'Witchfinder General', but sometimes his hilarious over the top style perfectly suited the material. This is definitely the case with 'The Abominable Dr. Phibes', which could well be his most entertaining movie. The film was directed by Robert Fuest, who had previously been a writer and art director for 'The Avengers', and it shares a similar camp sensibility, with lots of black humour and some deliciously surreal touches. Price was born to play this role! Later there was a sequel (good), and an attempt to recreate the approach with 'Theatre Of Blood' ( for me, a bit of a disappointment), but the original Phibes is easily the best. Price is supported by a strong cast, including Joesph Cotton (who made 'Baron Blood' with Mario Bava around this period), Terry-Thomas, and Peter Jeffrey ('If...'). Cult fans will also get a kick when they see who plays Phibes wife (uncredited): Caroline Munro ('Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter', 'Maniac', 'Faceless'). 'The Abominable Dr. Phibes' is one of the most entertaining movies I've ever seen. If you haven't seen it before then you are in for a real treat!

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Tales of Terror (1962)

Director: Roger Corman

Genres: Comedy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Country: USA

Language: English

Release Date: 17 January 1964 (West Germany)

Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe. A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.

Tales of Terror is a classic anthology of Edgar Allen Poe stories brought to life by Richard Matheson's writing and Roger Corman's directing. It's loaded with genre favorites and Vincent Price stars in all three tales (that right there is enough to make me watch). All three stories are indeed dark or humorous, or both, with The Black Cat being the strongest simply because of the interaction between Price and Peter Lorre. Price really hams it up in the wine tasting scene and I crack up every time. And Lorre is incomparable. This yarn does feature a black cat, but it's more like The Cask of Amontillado actually. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar is something else that needs to be seen. Basil Rathbone stars in this one and looks remarkably like a beardless Wes Craven. It's uncanny. Let us not forget the first story, Morella. This one is a dark drama and doesn't offer any humor. It's still great though and Price's character here reminds me quite a bit of the one he played in The Pit and the Pendulum (another Corman/Poe production). If you like the other Corman adaptations of Poe, don't miss this one.

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The Crazies (2010)

Director: Breck Eisner
Writers: Scott Kosar (screenplay), Ray Wright (screenplay)
Stars: Radha Mitchell, Timothy Olyphant, Danielle Panabaker
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Country: USA | United Arab Emirates
Language: English
Release Date: 26 February 2010 (USA)
Also Known As: The Crazies
Filming Locations: Cordele, Georgia, USA

As a toxin begins to turn the residents of Ogden Marsh, Iowa into violent psychopaths, sheriff David Dutton tries to make sense of the situation while he, his wife, and two other unaffected townspeople band together in a fight for survival.

A transport plane crashes into the water supply of a small Iowa town. Some of the townfolks become infected and turn crazed killers. Sheriff (Timothy Olyphant), his wife (Radha Mitchell), his deputy (Joe Anderson), and a girl from town (Danielle Panabaker) need to escape not only the crazies, but also the military sent to contain the population.

This is remake of a George A. Romero movie. It's not that complicated. It is a horror movie done classically without the jokey references or overt sexualization. There are no gross out jokes or T&A. It is just simple tense horror done right. The scariest scene has to be the women tied down on the gurneys, and a crazy walks in. If you want simple horror, this is all you need.

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The House That Dripped Blood (Blu-Ray)

The fans of Amicus movies all have their personal favorites. Some prefer the pulpiness of TALES FROM THE CRYPT or VAULT OF HORROR while others enjoy the cheesiness of TORTURE GARDEN or DR TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS. Then there's the literate approach of HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD and FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE. I love them all and saw every Amicus film that came my way, even the non-anthology ones like AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS and I, MONSTER. Most of them I caught in drive-ins. My personal preference is for the low key approach of HOUSE and GRAVE with HOUSE being my favorite Amicus movie although it was a close race between the two.

HOUSE strikes me as a combination of MASTERPIECE THEATER and ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS. It's even based on stories by Robert Bloch (PSYCHO). The film is a remarkably handsome production considering the budgetary limitations of $500,000. It grossed far more than that. The photography is simple and direct, the background lighting is extremely effective, and the performances by old pros at the genre like Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee are uniformly fine. Even an over-the-top Jon Pertwee in a role originally intended for Vincent Price is, forgive the pun, Price-less. As is often the case with anthologies, some stories are better than others with #s 2 & 3 standing out in my opinion.

The film has an interesting background and release history. In addition to the Vincent Price story, the director, Peter Duffell, wanted to call it "Death & the Maiden" after the musical work in the Peter Cushing segment but producer Milton Subotsky came up with the less prosaic title. Ironically, there's no blood in the film at all. It was originally released in the U.S by a small company called Cinerama (no relation to the film process) who quickly went under leaving the film hard to see for many years. The original VHS was a sad affair but the 2003 Lionsgate DVD (the one pictured here) is the one to get. The more recent Hens Tooth DVD has oversaturated colors. If you love old school British horror, this is one of the best.

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Class of Nuke 'Em High, Pts. 1-3: The Complete Spill-ogy DVD Box Set

High-school students, some on the honor roll, turn beastly from exposure to nuclear-plant waste.

Unleashed in 1986, the original Class of Nuke 'Em High is, for me at least, the weakest in the trilogy. The plot revolves around Tromaville High School, which is known as 'Nuke 'Em High,' due to the fact that it's within spitting distance of a high-profile Nuclear Power Plant. Somewhere along the line, a meltdown occurs and infects the water supply of the local school. The regular students slowly become vicious, violent cretins, part of the Cretin Biker Gang, who wreak havoc on the school and around Tromaville. Warren and Christie, two young lovers are the main characters, who start to suspect something fishy after smoking a radioactive joint that causes them to hallucinate. The rest is the students versus the cretins versus the nuclear power plant versus the townspeople. If you like low-grade Z-movies, this is will tickle your fancy.

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Redneck Zombies Collector's Edition, Limited Edition, The 20th Anniversary Edition, 20th Anniversary Edition, Director's Cut DVD

When a clan of hillbily dirtfarmers turn a misplaced barrell of chemical waste into a whiskey still, going blind is the least of their worries as the toxic moonshine turns them into REDNECK ZOMBIES! Now they're ready to invite a group of wayward yankees to a down-home feast of southern-fried gore and mayhem that will turn your stomach and tickle your funny bone! So grab a seat and set a spell with your favorite gut-chompin, tobacco chewin' cannibal kinfolk from hell in REDNECK ZOMBIES!








Special Features include:
-Brand New Director-Approved Color-Corrected Transfer of the Film
-The Original Never-Before-Released Soundtrack on bonus CD!
-New Interviews with Director Pericles Lewnes and cast
-New Feature-length Audio Commentary by Pericles Lewnes and producer Edward Bishop
-Deleted Scenes, Outtakes, Original Promotional Videos, and Much More!

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No Telling (1991)

No Telling essentially answers the question, what if PETA made a Frankenstein movie? But it’s so much more that that. Sure there’s the ethical question about whether lab experiments on animals is actually okay—as long as it leads to beneficial medicine? But more importantly, No Telling is extremely well directed by Larry Fessenden with nice swooping camera movements that don’t trip over the shoestring budget. Fessenden also uses a stopped car on the highway to illuminate the spatial distance between a married couple before they relocate to a remotely idyllic farmstead.

So what’s the horror? The husband (Stephen Ramsey) is setting up traps to catch wild animals to test a serum on and his company is totally fine with it as long as word doesn’t get out (thus the move to the middle of nowhere). But then he starts abducting beloved pets. Ultimately, though animals are being sewn together and brought back to life, the true horror of No Telling are the secrets in a marriage; chiefly, could we still love each other if we knew where the money was really coming from? Throw in some femme forward dinner table conversations about the pissing matches between men and you’ve got a nicely made extremely low budget horror film that’s very much a product of the 90s.

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Parents (1989)

Parents did not fare well when landed in theaters back in 1989, receiving so-so reviews and bombing at the box office. Thankfully, time has been kinder to Bob Balaban‘s dark cannibal comedy. For years, the film was shuffled around on DVD double features and horror collections, but in the meantime, it became a cult classic and finally got a Blu-ray release early this year. Hopefully, that means Parents will get a boost in popularity because the twisted satire juxtaposes suburban 1950s Americana and macabre flesh-eating violence to distinctly delightful results.

Parents stars Bryan Madorsky as Michael Laemle, a young boy terrorized by nightmares of blood and meat who suspects his idyllic suburban parents — played with delirious menace by Randy Quaid and Mary Beth Hurt —  are serving him unsavory sustenance; his daily sweetbreads, if you will. And he’s right, because his parents are a pair of stone-cold psychos with a hunger for human flesh and a regular supply of fres flesh.

Balaban directs Parents with a meat cleaver, carving out a mean slice of comedy in the midst of dark and deranged horrors. When concerned school officials interfere, Parents swells into a symphony of clashing tones. It’s a fucked in the head horror comedy that turns the domestic realm of safety upside down to equally hilarious and heinous results.

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Bloody Moon (1981)

Jess Franco is most famous for Vampyros Lesbos and his modern swingin’ Euro adaptations of Marquise de Sade’s sadistic seductions—but Bloody Moon is his most straightforward horror film. There’s a killer on the loose at a Spanish schoolhouse, five years after a rape and murder at a party. And because it’s Franco, there’s also some body disfigurement and incest. The script is pretty ludicrous and the acting is pretty bad, but it never aims much higher than trashy kills and pearl-clutching plot mentions which is Franco’s sweet spot. It’s the perfect midnight movie for your fucked up friends—if you can handle a slasher that’s centered around a killer trying to get back with his older sister, then you’ll howl with glee at this Bloody Moon.

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Fascination (1979)

What if Eric Rohmer made a bisexual vampire movie? Well, it’d be an immoral tale such as Fascination. Of all the lesbian/bisexual vampire movies of the 70s this is the one that puts women in the most control over their sex and their prey. It’s not just a few women cooped up in a mansion, it’s a whole underground society. Fascination opens with a robbery that’s filmed liked grown ups playing the same shootout games that they did as kids. The wounded man stumbles in upon a woman’s home and though the man’s stunted and playing the same games he did as a child, these women have graduated to a whole different kind of tea party.

If Jess Franco is a little too tongue in cheek and psychedelic for you, then give Jean Rollin a try. Start with Fascination.

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Tourist Trap (1979)

Alternately goofy as hell and downright creepy, Tourist Trap is one of the more bizarre slasher films to come out of the pre-80s onslaught, somehow managing to be unique despite borrowing heavily from the horror hits that preceded it. The film follows a fairly standard set of slasher victims; a group of youths who get stranded at remote gas station/museum filled with grotesque mannequins, which happens to be run by a creepy, murderous man who stalks them down one-by-one.

That may all sound a bit par for the course, but Tourist Trap really earns its stripes when it gets going, exploring the grotesque displays of the creepy curation — especially when the mannequins come to life. By and large, Tourist Trap sets aside gore and overt violence in favor of building creepy ambiance, and while that slow-burn approach can make the film’s mere 90 minutes drag at points, director David Schmoeller creates a cacophonous mounting dread and pays it off with unnerving imagery. The end result may be too tame and tongue in cheek for some horror fans, but if it presses your particular buttons, it presses them very well.

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Deathdream (1974)

Deathdream (aka Dead of Night) is one of the first narrative films to directly address the Vietnam War. In it, a soldier (Richard Backus) returns home from Vietnam after his parents (John Marley and Lynn Carlin) had already received a letter from the army stating that he was killed in combat. The logline for Bob Clark‘s (Black Christmas, Porky’s) second feature labels the man a zombie, but he returns addicted to blood and kills animals and locals so that he can inject blood into his veins and keep living. Needing blood like clockwork in order to keep living? Sounds a little bit like a vampire, too.

Deathdream uses the horrific symbol of intravenous addiction to approach the issues of an American soldier returning home. Many soldiers became addicted to drugs during Vietnam, or in the veteran’s hospital or upon their return. Sometimes just for coping with what they’d seen, sometimes for coping with how they’d been received at home. Backus’ sullen detachment from his parents and his surroundings —coupled with his need to inject blood in order to keep being human—is a haunting allusion to the veteran drug-abuse problems the country turned away from ever since Vietnam.

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The Asphyx (1972)

The Asphyx is slow-burn Victorian horror, which usually falls well outside my range of interests, but what it demands in patience, it makes up for in a purely original story that somehow hasn’t been replicated since. The title refers to an ancient creature that comes to claim your soul at the moment of death, and the film centers around Sir Hugo Cunningham (Robert Stephens), a fancypants high society doctor who begins experimenting with the creature; first by capturing its image, and ultimately trying to capture the entity itself in a dangerous quest for immortality.

The film’s plotting stumbles into the absurd at moments — for example. the number of bizarre ways they come up with to make Cunningham’s experiment go wrong — but it thrives when it digs into the meat of its concept. The creature design for the Asphyx itself is unique and chilling; a blue-tinged specter wholly different from the more conventional creature creations that plague uninspired monster movies, but the best moments come when the scientists debate the meaning of the creature’s existence. These conversations are ponderous and explored at length, giving time to explore unanswerable questions of mortality. It all makes for a film that creeps up on you. The Asphyx comes collecting, taking its time, but it ultimately demands your soul… or at least a deep consideration of your own impending death.

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Blood and Lace (1971)

Seven years prior to Halloween, Blood and Lace featured the first home invasion killer POV during a murder. The hammer murder of a prostitute at the beginning sends her teenage daughter (Melody Patterson) to an oppressive orphanage run by the sadistic Gloria Grahame (all of the great 40s divas eventually made their way to cheap horrors at the twilight of their career), who lives off the state contract given for each orphan and works the children extra hard or punishes them even harder.

Every man in Blood and Lace is oozing filth as they all try to get their hands on the new teen, who talks a big game about her experience with love. That includes Uncle Leo (Len Lesser) from Seinfeld, and leads to a few sick plot twists, and Oscar-winner Grahame pays a pittance for her personal life that excommunicated her from Hollywood—for sleeping with/marrying her teenaged stepson—in a grindhouse movie that would embrace that ickiness.

Is this movie great? Nope. But for cheap thrills and grindhouse fans, it’s certainly very fun. It perfectly straddles the 60s exploitation flicks of yore and has one foot in the future 70s horror nasties. You WOULD NOT want to be the final girl in this sick scenario.

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Daughters of Darkness (1971)

With nudity and sexual proclivity loosened across the first world’s various censor boards, the vampire film finally got to embrace the eroticism of the genre in the 1970s. For the past few decades there have been many sex films involving the vampire; Belgium’s Daughters of Darkness is the most artful and moody of the spicy lot. There’s a flower-eating “mother”, a mysterious man on a bicycle, and an ornate Transylvanian hotel where a Countess (Delphine Seyrig, known to cinephiles as the indomitable Jeanne Dielman) and her assistant (Andrea Rau) lament that their world hardly has any remaining virgins, and thus the Countess’ ritual of bathing in the blood of 800 virgins for her healthy sheen, is beginning to wane.

Enter a newlywed couple who’ve already fallen out of love with each other (she is Swedish, and thus not of “good blood”, which is hardly a concern of a vampire) and are thirsty to explore other lovers. This liberating combination makes the hotel a feeding ground for sexual exploration, feastings, and a killer soundtrack.

Harry Kümel’s film is grindhouse fare for those who prefer a touch of class. And Seyrig, a veteran of international arthouse films for Alain Resnais and Chantal Ackerman, provides one of the classiest femme vampires, while Rau is one of the most alluring—particularly when her silky seduction movements perfectly compliment the serenely surprising trap-door score.

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