★★★★★ RELEASED 22 APRIL 1970/1974 | 18 | 4K/Blu-ray Cast Caroline Cartier, Olivier Martin, Maurice Lemaître/Joëlle Coeur, Lieva Lone, Patricia Hermenier
Indicator’s range of Jean Rollin restorations marches on, with a pair of titles that demonstrate both the captivating and frustrating aspects of the cult French filmmaker’s oeuvre.
An exercise in poetic mystery, The Nude Vampire has some entrancing sequences. A man encounters a woman clad only in diaphanous fabric, pursued at night by animal-masked figures. Later, he sneaks into a black-tie gathering, but finds he’s stumbled upon a suicide cult. Both are pure cinema, liberated from dialogue.