Can Elisabeth be rescued before she becomes another victim, and what's the chilling ecological reason behind her condition?īy this point, director Jean Rollin had strayed very far from his luscious yet melancholy vampires, favoring instead the more realistic bloodletting of Fascination and the mournful zombies of The Grapes of Death. Bizarre events ensue: a nude woman punctures her eyes with scissors, the guards prey on the female inmates, and catatonic shells of human patients are disposed of in an incinerator. Journet is also captured and returned, with the two women trying to form a new plan of escape even though they can't remember. Unfortunately their momentary bliss is shattered when Elisabeth - who can seemingly retain memories for only a short period of time - is spirited away by doctors to an austere, postmodern facility referred to as "the black tower" (actually a block of office buildings in which Rollin shot after hours). Lahaie collapses in front of the car and, apparently suffering from a strange form of amnesia, is taken to his home where they make love. While driving along a desolate road at night, a young man, Robert (Gardère), is startled to see a disoriented y oung woman, Elisabeth (Lahaie), running through the woods while another (Journet), nude and bordering on catatonia, watches in despair.
Kino Lorber (Blu-ray & DVD) (US R0 HD/NTSC), Redemption (UK R0 PAL, US R0 NTSC), Encore (Holland R0 PAL), Another World (Scandinavia R2 PAL) / WS (1.66:1) (16:9), Image (US R0 NTSC) / WS (1.66:1)
Starring Brigitte Lahaie, Vincent Gardère, Dominique Journet, Bernard Papineau
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