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(aka "Requiem For a Vampire" or "Caged Virgins" or "Dungeon of Terror" or "Vierges et Vampires" )
directed by Jean Rollin
France 1971
The Indicator 4K UHD of Requiem For a Vampire is compared to these editions HERE
Two girls disguised as clowns have broken a convict associate out of prison. When he is shot during a car chase, they abandon the vehicle and their disguise and take off on foot. After using their wits and their figures to steal food and escaping being buried alive in a cemetery, they eventually find themselves in a remote castle inhabited by a clan of vampires. If not for the abundant nudity (and a sadistic, red-tinted sequence of the vampires attacking women in chains), this lyrical film would make an ideal companion piece to the Czech fantasy VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS or even Rollin's underrated TWO ORPHAN VAMPIRES. REQUIEM was not only one of the few Rollin titles dubbed into English, it was also one of the more accessible ones in America in that (unlike NUDE VAMPIRE and SHIVER OF THE VAMPIRES which were licensed by grindhouse distributor Harry Novak's Box Office International but never distributed in the U.S.) it not only had theatrical play under a number of titles including CAGED VIRGINS it was released on rental-era home video in abbreviated form as DUNGEON OF TERROR paired with a similarly shortened version of the American horror sleeper THE CHILD as a double-feature rental tape. |
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Theatrical Release: August 1973
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Comparison:
Image Entertainment - Region 0 - NTSC vs. Encore Entertainment (3 disc edition) - Region 0 - PAL vs. Redemption - Region FREE - Blu-ray |
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Distribution |
Image Entertainment Region 0 - NTSC |
Encore Entertainment Region 0 - PAL |
Redemption USA Region FREE - Blu-ray |
Runtime | 1:26:48 | 1:23:12 (4% PAL speedup) | 1:26:48 |
Video |
1.48:1 Original Aspect Ratio |
1.78:1 Original Aspect Ratio
16X9 enhanced |
1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 36,017,434,020 bytesFeature: 21,734,256,091 bytes Video Bitrate: 25.93 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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Audio | French (Dolby Digital 1.0 mono); English (Dolby Digital 1.0 mono) |
French (Dolby Digital 2.0 mono); English (Dolby Digital 2.0 mono) |
LPCM Audio French 1536 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit LPCM Audio English 1536 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit |
Subtitles | English, none | English, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Finnish, Danish, Norweigian, Swedish, Polish, none | English, none |
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Release Information: Studio: Image Entertainment Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details:
Chapters 13 |
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DVD Release Date: 13 October
2005 Chapters 12 |
Release Information: Studio: Redemption Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size:
36,017,434,020 bytes Edition Details: • Introduction by Jean Rollin (2:27 in 1080P)
• Documentary: The
Shiver of a Requiem (17:41 in 1080P) • 3 trailers (French, English and Us as 'Caged Virgins')
• 16-page booklet 'The Cinema of
Jean Rollin's
Blu-ray
Release Date: May 29th, 2012 Chapters 10 |
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The Indicator 4K UHD of Requiem For a Vampire is compared to these editions HERE
NOTE: These Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.
ADDITION: Redemption - Region FREE - Blu-ray (May 12'): Again I will plead ignorance as to haw this film looked originally. The Redemption Blu-ray excels in a few areas with brighter colors, some grain but there is still a hint of greenish hue. I think of the three recent Redemption/Jean Rollin Blu-rays this may look the best. It can be darker and occasionally soft but in-motion it did look... decent. The 1.66 framed image seems to be better balanced than the DVDs and may be the best presentation of the three.
This 1080P package offers linear PCM tracks for both French and English in 2.0 channel. There are optional English subtitles.
Supplements include a 2.5 minute introduction by Jean Rollin, the 17-minute documentary 'The Shiver of a Requiem', a 10-minute Louise Dhour Interview and 3 trailers for the film (French, English and US one as 'Caged Virgins'). The package contains a 16-page booklet.
Another sex-filled but actually sexy (IMO) Rollin film. I liked this one better - an adventurous spirit without as many weird unknowns (although they certainly exist). Recommended to Rollin fans... only. *** ON THE DVDs: Image's DVD seems to run at correct film speed but it has been encoded interlaced and exhibits additional ugly chroma banding on fine lines (note one of the girls' striped shirt in any scene with movement) and pixelation. The English track is louder and has been cleaned up but both hiss is present in both tracks. There are 16 chapters on the Image disc but only 13 are for the feature (the first is for the tacky/boring Redemption intro and the last two are for the French and English trailers; early Image releases placed the theatrical trailers in the same titleset as the features with selection from the scene menu as well as from the extras menu in some cases). Encore's 3 disc set features an improved anamorphic transfer in the 1.78:1 aspect ratio. Sometimes the top is cropped and sometimes more picture information is revealed on the sides. The image quality is much improved but the audio tracks sound similar to the ones on the Image disc quality-wise. The extras have been spread over two discs with the feature confined to the first single-layer disc (at a lower bitrate than the Image release although it looks superior). Disc 2 is only 1.59 GB and while Disc 3 is 1.48 GB and the entire package could have fit on a single dual-layer disc (better yet, the feature could have received a dual-layer encode and the extras given their own DVD5). Jean Rollin comments on 8 selected scenes in English and there are some alternate clothed scenes for the French version. Actors Louise Dhour and Paul Bisciglia provide interviews and Rollin reads from his last novel. As with other encore releases, the 64 page booklet is very informative with tons of behind the scenes stills, posters, Rollin's lengthy reminiscences on the film's making and some of the text from his last novel. It is likely that Redemption USA's more recent release is a standards-conversion of the newer anamorphic PAL master as the disc carries over some of the Encore set's extras. |
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