Fascination (1979)
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In 1905, it was fashionable for anemic women in Paris to visit slaughterhouses and drink fresh ox blood. Doctors prescribed it as a cure.
Jean Rollin opened a film on exactly that image, elegant women in Victorian dress sipping blood from silver bowls among the hanging carcasses. Then he asked: What if some of them developed a taste for it?
FASCINATION (1979) is the answer. A thief on the run with stolen gold hides in a remote chateau with two beautiful women, certain he holds the upper hand. He has walked into a circle of aristocrats who graduated from ox blood to human, and he is not their hostage but their dinner.
It gets called a vampire film, but there are no vampires in it and nothing supernatural, only bored aristocrats and their appetite. The image that outlived everything else is a woman in a black cloak, naked beneath it, crossing the causeway to the chateau and cutting down the thief's gang with a scythe, like Death come to collect. She is Brigitte Lahaie, France's biggest adult-film star, whom Rollin lifted into cult immortality.
Rollin was laughed at most of his life, funding these dreamlike, blood-soaked poems by directing pornography under other names. The critics who jeered him are forgotten now, and his films are treasured. All you ever needed to make one, he said, was a beautiful woman and a castle, or a cemetery.
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About the Film
Now tell me the truth, who’s coming here tonight? DEATH!
- Directed By
- Jean Rollin
- Runtime
- 80 minutes
- Released
- November 1, 1979
- Certification
- 16
- Country
- France
- Starring
- Franca Maï, Jean-Marie Lemaire, Brigitte Lahaie, Fanny Magier, Muriel Montossé
More Credits
- Genres
- Horror
- Language
- French
- Origin
- FR
- Studios
- Films A.B.C.
- Written By
- Jean Rollin
- Produced By
- Joe de Palmer
- Cinematography
- Georgie Fromentin
- Music
- Philippe D'Aram
- Also Starring
- Sophie Noël, Evelyne Thomas, Joe de Palmer, Cyril Val, Myriam Watteau
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Ok I’m interested
Suza Kanon if you haven’t seen this we should watch it together! I never have.
Vampires never had it so easy, they can just hang out
I love this one. And Brigitte Lahaie’s scythe massacre scene was one of the main triggers for my infatuation with her. I have a thing for terrifying women, in case you’re wondering.
Fascination is amazing I wish my wife could have seen it
Karl Moles my deepest condolences🙏🏽
Here are two beautiful women, whom we will see naked once they reach the castle. One of them has a good idea…
It’s how some great horror movies kick off… and some great porn movies. 🤷🏻♀️
I’ve seen it twice. Jean Rollin was a master
With the recent Indicator release, it felt like I was seeing the abbatoir scene, with it’s colour and detail, for the first time. Fascination is peak Rollin, decadent and beautiful.
Erin
Coady Lynt Price
Raymond Kellam you might like this.
John Logan I’ve never seen this but it sounds interesting 🤔
Folks always want to eat each other… never ceases to amaze me that no one ever cared about poisonous 🩸 blood
Crikey
He is now my favorite director. All his horror/dark fantasy films are gold. 🖤