The Rape of the Vampire Blu-ray

Release Year: 1968

Runtime: 95 min

Director: Jean Rollin

Cast: Solange Pradel, Bernard Letrou, Jacqueline Sieger, Catherine Deville, Ursule Pauly

Studios:

After a psychoanalyst unsuccessfully tries to convince four sisters that they are not 200 year old vampires, the Queen of the Vampires promulgates the cause of the Undead.

Special Features:

Brand-new 4K restoration

from the original negative by Powerhouse Films Original French mono soundtrack.

Audio commentary

with writer-director Jean Rollin (2007).

Audio commentary

with film expert Tim Lucas (2023).

Jean Rollin Introduction

(1998, 3 mins): filmed appraisal.

Fragments of Pavement Under the Sand

(2023, 32 mins): updated documentary on the making of the film, directed by Rollin’s personal assistant, Daniel Gouyette, and including interviews with key collaborators Jean-Denis Bonan, Jean-Pierre Bouyxou and Jean-Loup Phillippe.

Jean Rollin on ‘The Rape of the Vampire’

(2007, 5 mins): the director in conversation at the Fantasia Film Festival, Montreal.

Jean Rollin: L’Effervescence des vampires

(2023, 40 mins): Jean-Denis Bonan, editor and assistant director, recalls his early collaborations with Rollin.

Je ne regrette rien

(2023, 13 mins): newly edited archival interview with actor Jacqueline Sieger.

The All-Rounder

(2023, 18 mins): newly edited archival interview with writer, actor and set dresser Alain-Yves Beaujour.

Parallel Routes

(2023, 12 mins): newly edited archival interview with composer François Tusques.

Indelible Impressions

(2023, 9 mins): critical appreciation by film historian Virginie Sélavy.

Alternative scene

Super 8 version of an original theatrical trailer.

Image galleries

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The Far Countries (Les Pays loin, 1965, 17 mins)

brand-new 4K restoration of Rollin’s second fictional short film.

The Far Countries

(2018, 30 mins): artistic reconstruction of Rollin’s lost and unfinished 1962 short film, L’Itinéraire marin, by filmmakers Victor Poucalow and Raja Tawil.

De la grue au drapeau

(2023, 7 mins): a short history of L’Itinéraire marin, with contributions from Bonan and Philippe.

New and improved English translation subtitles

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Limited edition exclusive 80-page book

with a new essay by Beatrice Loayza, archival writing by Jean Rollin on the making of the film, an archival interview with the director by Peter Blumenstock, Jean Rollin’s recollections of shooting The Far Countries, and full film credits.

Limited edition

of 10,000 individually numbered units (6,000 4K UHDs and 4,000 Blu-rays) for the UK and US.