Dracula's Fiancee (2002)

Review: Dracula's Fiancee (2002)

Director: Jean Rollin

Cast: Magalie Madison, Sabine Lenoël, Brigitte Lahaie, Thomas Desfossé, Céline Mauge,

Magalie Madison
Magalie Madison
Sabine Lenoël
Sabine Lenoël
Brigitte Lahaie
Brigitte Lahaie
Thomas Desfossé
Thomas Desfossé
Céline Mauge
Céline Mauge

Plot: A Van Helsing-like professor and his protegé are tracking Dracula's descendants through the world of "parallels", creatures who are human in form but live quite distinct psychic lives. A circus dwarf who is in love with one of these creatures leads them to a mansion filled with oddly behaving nuns, The Order of the White Virgins. The nuns are detaining a beautiful woman who is the betrothed of the still-extant Dracula. When she escapes, everyone follows her to Dracula's seaside castle, on the way dealing with a baby-eating ogress and a wolf-woman (Brigitte Lahaie in a cameo), witches and madwomen. The bizarre wedding ritual commences.

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Pandemic viewing, Part One

Pandemic viewing, Part One

Social isolation and “working from home” mean a lot of time for movie-watching … and the volume far outstrips my ability to say anything substantive about many of the films I do watch: so here I mostly just acknowledge what […]

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