A Virgin Among the Living Dead
Director: Jesús Franco, Pierre Quérut, Jean Rollin
Actors: Christina von Blanc, Carmen Yazalde, Anne Libert
PlotA young woman receives an invitation to visit her late father's secluded mansion. She discovers that the area surrounding the estate is strangely desolate, and the mansion itself seems to be steeped in a haunting atmosphere. Upon arrival, she is greeted by a motley assortment of her relatives, who are surprisingly eccentric and borderline morose. They inform her that she has been summoned to partake in the reading of her father's will, a critical event that reveals hidden, dark secrets of her family's past. The sprawling, dilapidated mansion and its eerie inhabitants set the stage for what feels like a perpetually unsettling gathering.
As the young woman spends more time with her relatives, she begins to uncover disturbing truths about her family and its history. The nights are fraught with bizarre and horrific visions, confounding her sense of reality. She is beset by a series of supernatural occurrences and ghostly apparitions that hint at a mysterious curse haunting her family. The more she delves into her family's secrets, the more she realizes that her arrival at the mansion might not have been merely for the reading of the will, but rather for something far more sinister and bound to the chilling legacy of her bloodline.
Writers: Jesús Franco, Paul D'Ales
Release Date: 15 Nov 1973
Runtime: 105 min
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Belgium, France, Italy, Liechtenstein
Language: French
Home Video Reviews
A haunting, introspective Franco film with quality Blu-ray enhancements, worth a watch for cult film enthusiasts.
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