'Requiem For a Vampire' (1972) – Jean Rollin.

Jean Rollin's oneiric 'Requiem For a Vampire' boasts many of his most indelibly evocative imagery. Playful and exotic, his unconventional, eerily off-beat phantasmagoria begins surrealistically with a cartoonish vehicular shoot-out. Now lost in the desolate countryside, our distractingly nubile protagonists, Marie-Pierre Castel and, Mireille Dargent fatefully shelter in a horror haunted chateaux. Once lured inside this doom-laden domicile, the innocent clown-faced reform school absconders are forced to endure unimaginable travails! Playing out teasingly like a hallucinatory, vibrantly hued fever dream,'Requiem For a Vampire' is another sublimely haunting example of macabre mood master, Jean Rollin's morbidly fascinating, thrillingly voluptuous take on Vampire lore.

Melancholy, erotic and profoundly mysterious, 'Requiem For a Vampire' has a lustrous painterly quality that enthrals in ways few genre films can. Corrupted by an ancient evil, cruelly bound to this nightmarish castle, our delectable duo are fearfully enveloped in a series of soul-stripping, skin-stripping, sensually surreal shocks! The weird, crepuscular domain of a dying master vampire and his craven acolytes is steeped in a bizarre atmosphere. If you treasure baroque, visually refined, sinfully stimulating Gothic horror, Jean Rollin's iconoclastic film remains a uniquely captivating experience. This masterfully composed terror tableau is both sensuous and sinister, the depthless shadows eerily suggest the presence of unimaginable wickedness! 'Requiem For a Vampire' is a lusty, colourful, compellingly strange vision of eldritch erotica, rarely has the cinematic Danse Macabre been captured so exquisitely.