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A Virgin Among the Living Dead

1973 · 79 min

A dreamlike, unsettling descent into a haunted family reunion, where erotic visions and existential dread blur into a slow, hypnotic nightmare.

Tagline
She's going down.
Overview
A girl arrives from London to visit her estranged relatives in a remote castle for the reading of her father's will. After a while she discovers that they are all in fact dead and her decision to live with them turns into a nightmare. Unable to leave she's drawn into a macabre underworld through visions of nude satanic rituals and her own impending sacrifice.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • death
  • isolation
  • family
  • identity
  • sexuality
Places
  • single country house
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror7
Humour1
Realism3
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity7
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
horror
Directed by
Jesús Franco
Written by
Jesús Franco
Starring
Christina von Blanc, Carmen Yazalde, Rosa Palomar, Anne Libert, Howard Vernon, Jesús Franco, Paul Müller, Linda Hastreiter
Music
Bruno Nicolai
Cinematography
José Climent
Runtime
79 min
Country
France, Liechtenstein, Belgium, Italy
Languages
French

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