The Shiver of the Vampires

1971 [FRENCH]

Action / Horror / Mystery

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Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 52% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 2226 2.2K

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Plot summary

A young honeymooning couple stop for the night at an ancient castle. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is home to a horde of vampires, who have their own plans for the couple.


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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Milk_Tray_Guy 5 / 10

Style, but no substance

Another Jean Rollin vampire flick. The formula for these seems to be; paper-thin plot, beautiful cinematography, and lots of gratuitous, female nudity. The cast are pretty poor (one of the girls does bear a resemblance to Sharon Tate, whilst one of the guys is a dead ringer for Tate's husband Roman Polanski, who appeared with her in his Dance of the Vampires (aka The Fearless Vampire Killers) four years earlier). The music, by French group Acanthus (who also recorded under the name Unity (22); other than that I can't find anything on them) has a prog rock feel; it's okay, but it jars with the heavily gothic imagery. On top of that, this was pretty poorly dubbed into English; I'd sooner have had subtitles. There are some spectacular visuals - especially in and around a chateau and a graveyard - but that's it. Nice to look at, but not a lot else. 5/10.

Reviewed by christopher-underwood 7 / 10

cemetery with blood-red lights

One of Jean Rollin's earlier films but is still certainly as well and getting his way of the camera it better controlled than some. Here there is also decent music and fantastic gothic castle with floodlights and the great looks at the cemetery also with blood-red lights. No problem at all with the lovely girls, who don't really wear many clothes and they are exactly the way to have candelabras that look authentic as does the lighting in the inside of the castle and even in the cemetery. There is a simple story which means there is a couple who have just got married and visit their cousins and many of some vampires. It ends at a great beach scene when the sun rises over the horizon which is how he often seems to end his films.

Reviewed by Woodyanders 8 / 10

Strange and heady psychedelic vampire horror oddity from the ever-interesting Jean Rollin

Isa (a charming performance by the fetching Sandra Julien) and her husband Antoine (a likable portrayal by Jean-Marie Durand) are a recently married honeymooning couple who stop for the night at a moldy old castle. The couple discover that the castle is the home of a horde of vampires who have very special plans for Isa. Director Jean Rollin, who also co-wrote the offbeat script with Monique Natan, relates the cheerfully outré story at a hypnotically gradual pace, does his usual ace job of creating and sustaining a dreamy'n'trippy oddball atmosphere, smartly explores an intriguing theme about destiny, and makes the most out of the rundown castle and adjacent spooky cemetery locations. Moreover, Rollins not only further spices things up with a generous sprinkling of sizzling lesbianism and yummy female nudity, but also gives the picture an extra delightful lift with an amusing sense of playful humor and a few startling moments of inspired surrealism (for example, the vampiress who pops up inside of a grandfather clock). The game cast have a ball with the idiosyncratic material: Jacques Robiolles and Michael Delahaye contribute engaging work as a pair of cordial and jolly vampires, cute brunette Kuelan Herce and adorable blonde Marie-Pierre Castel are very sexy and appealing as loyal maids who work for said vampires, and Nicole Nancell cuts a marvelously wicked figure as calculating man-hating bloodsucker bitch Isabelle. Jean-Jacques Renon's striking cinematography makes impressive use of bold and vibrant color. The funky-throbbing score by the prog-rock group Acanthus hits the get-down groovy spot. A real weirded-out blast of an entertaining avant-garde item.

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