Requiem For A Vampire aka Caged Virgins is Jean Rollin’s most popular vampire movie…probably due in no small part to its rampant fur-baring nudity and softcore humping. Like most of his films, don’t expect a whole lot of coherent plot…his films are sumptuous visual and sensual feasts that operate on fairytale/dream logic, and completely disregard most vampire lore, changing the rules from film to film. This one begins in the middle of a car chase/shootout with the two female leads (Marie-Pierre Castel and Mireille D’Argent) dressed like this…
Who they’re running from and why is barely, offhandedly explained. They spend the rest of the movie dressed as pigtailed schoolgirls…in the fleeting moments when they are dressed. Eventually they find themselves in the dungeon of a regal lady vampire and her lecherous lackeys. And of course, it wouldn’t be a Rollin film if the girls didn’t end up in each other’s arms…
