Dracula's Fiancée
Dracula's Fiancée
| 14 August 2002 (USA)
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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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Afouotos

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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Glucedee

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

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Celia

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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Janis

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

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Claudio Carvalho

Vampire films are usually very attractive: some of them are masterpieces ("Nosferatu", "Dracula" (1931), "Dracula" (1992)); others are cult, like the Hammer productions, "Near Dark" and "The Lost Boys"; others are only entertaining. But they always have audiences of fans to worship the different stories and versions of the vampire, the supernatural being created by Bram Stoker in his novel and brought to the cinema by F.W. Murnau for the first time.Unfortunately, "La fiancée de Dracula" is probably the worst vampire movie ever made, with a combination of exploitation with a terrible screenplay recalling Jesus Franco films. There is no development of the characters or situations and the viewer sees a mysterious professor (that physically recalls Christopher Lee, only physically) and his awkward assistant Eric performed by a ham actor hunting down Dracula. In-between there are crazy nuns, breasts and naked bodies exposed in a senseless story. My vote is one (awful).Title (Brazil): Not Available (fortunately)

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MetalMiike

...Or, a Jean Rollin film, in other words.Certainly, this is his best film in years. Despite the sort of technical inadequacies that have always dogged his low-budget work, I have never been able to resist Rollin. Indeed, larger budgets have often hampered him, in that his unique style largely depends on a sense of post-apocalyptic dereliction and a wistful sensuality shot amidst empty castles and isolated necropoli.If I remember right, Rollin had the largest budget available to him so far, yet does not make the mistakes he made with Deamoniacs (the first film where he had any real money) and fill the run time with lots of pointless but boring "action" sequences. Instead, the extra wad of cash allows him to expand his universe but at the same time revisit many of the locations of the past. And yes, before you ask, that beach IS in it.As always, Rollin's unique sense of humour is present, though in a far more sophisticated manner than in his previous works(it helps if you see the original French versions). A sequence in a nunnery, for example is underscored by various paintings by Clouvis Trouille seen in the background. Long a huge influence, or rather "brother" in the same fraternity as Rollin, Trouille's work has been referenced more and more in his films as of late. Thank God, none of the campery of Frisson De Vampires here.Most importantly, Rollin references and recreates images seen in earlier films. The Grandfather clock/TARDIS arrangement; the beach; various castle seen in other works. I could go on. The point is, Rollin has not only taken his time to retrofit is films into one great whole but to also hint that there is one continuous Master Story Arc throughout his entire oeuvre.If you are new to Rollin, see The Nude Vampire, Rape of the Vampire and Fascination first. If you are a long-term fan you will not be disappointed and, indeed you will await his next film (which, despite all the secrecy, has, in fact finished shooting already) with eager anticipation...

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ds1343

Pardon the pun..but this vampire movie sucked....major. One of the worst films I have ever had the misfortune of viewing. It would be perfect for use in a revival of Mystery Science 3000...only be sure to use the totally absurd English language version. Ridiculous and pointless plot with more holes than I could count. Abysmal. How about the part of the film where the "fiancee" goes off on the boat to meet Dracula at a spot non one knows...not even her (huh ?) Yet in the next scene all the other cast members are on the unknown island. Or how about in the first scenes...when the trackers captured the dwarf...they had the Vampire chick right there and apparently helpless and left her alone...why not kill her then and there ???. It wasn't scary..wasn't sexy...it was only boring and tedious. Avoid it like the plague...or create your own MST3K.

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HumanoidOfFlesh

A professor and his young assistant are investigating about the coming of the master of parallel,who is simply Dracula.They go to convent and follow Isabel,a mysterious woman,who could be the next fiancee of the master."La Fiancee de Dracula" is clearly not as good as Rollin's best works like "Lips of Blood" and "Fascination".Still it has some surreal moments and a good amount of female nudity.The ending is really beautiful and tragic.It's nice to see Brigitte Lahaie in a rather small role.So if you're a fan of Jean Rollin's wonderful cinema you can't miss this film.Highly recommended,especially if you like vampire flicks.My rating:7 out of 10.

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