A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1971)

Original title

Une vierge chez les morts-vivants

Directed by

Jesús Franco, Jean Rollin

Genre

horror film, erotic film, zombie film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 20m

Rated

18

Rating

4.7 of 10 from 75 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman travels to a remote family estate where she encounters strange, ghostlike relatives and bizarre erotic rituals. The film mixes horror with dreamlike eroticism as her isolation grows.

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What happens

A Virgin Among the Living Dead is a film directed by Jesús Franco. Franco shot the film in Portugal in 1971 with the film it was only being released to the public in 1973. While credited as a production of Liechtenstein, it was submitted theatrically as being the product of various countries, with a Franco biographer suggesting that the Prodif Ets. company was set up as a tax shelter. Several versions of the film were released theatrically with added footage, ranging from erotic scenes to scenes featuring zombies. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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