Les deux orphelines vampires (1997)

Country of Origin: France
Year of Production: 1997
Running Times: 103 mins
Format: colour     35mm
Ratio:
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Les Films ABC / Lincoln Publishing / Francam Inter Service Corp
Producer: Jean Rollin
Line Producer: Samuel Selsky
Production Manager: Lionel Wallmann

SCRIPT
Script / Novel: Jean Rollin

DIRECTION
Director: Jean Rollin
Assistant Director: Jean-Noël Delamarre
Trainee Assistant Directors: Stéphane Garraud, Camille Delamarre

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Norbert Marfaing-Sintes
Camera Operator: Anne Mustellier
Assistant Camera Operator: Arséne Jamet-Leperche
Chief Electricians: Bernard Trocellier, Marc Porta
Assistant Chief Electrician: Jean-Philippe Aifici
Electrician: Amar Kabouche
Camera Equipment: Ping Pong
Electrical Equipment: Multivolts
Lab: Cinedia

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Nathalie Perrey
Trainee Editor: Tristan Leroy

MUSIC
Music: Philippe d'Aram
Music Performed By: Ars Antiqua (Ex Glorious, conta tenor: Joseph Sage)

SOUND
Sound Engineer: Francis Baldos
Boom Operator: Jonathan Acbard
Sound Mixer: Antoine Gueben
Sound Studio: Dinascope

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up: Maryvonne Harroeut
Assistant Make Up: Jean Allain, Chantal Schaub
Costumes For Bat Women: Sylvain Montagne
Wardrob Assistant: Sylvie Candau

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Settings for Bat Women: Sylvain Montagne

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Nathalie Perry
Stage Manager: Jacques Michel
Production Assistant: Veronique Djaouti
General: Jean-Noël Delamarre

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks To: Le Cirque Roamnes; M. Michel Navrreau; L'Auberge du Cheval Noir; M. Albert Kuszelewic; Peter Blumenstock; Eric Maché; Cari Morano; Le Pickwick Arms Hotel
For Eric Pierre

CAST
Alexandra Pic (Louise)
Isabelle Teboul (Henriette)
Nathalie Perrey (Soeur Marthe)
Anne Duguël (Mère Supèerieure)
Bernard Charnacé (Dr Dennary)
Nathalie Karsenty (La louve)
Anissa Berkani-Rohmer (Nicole)
Nada Le Hoangan (Virginie)
Véronique Djaouti (la femme chauve-souris)
Brigitte Lahaie (la femme au fouet)
Tina Aumont (la goule)
Martin Snaric (la peintre á New York)
Raymond Audemard (L'épicier)
Sandrine Thoquet (Odile)
Mélanie Karalli (Geneviève)
Sylvie Candau (une souer)
Michel Franck (le bigot au fusil)
Paulette Jauffre (la femme de Bigot)
Frédérique Heymann-Gony (la jeune fille)
Camille Delamarre (la jeune homme)
Myriam Zaza, Lucie Jamot (pensionnaire)
Marie Laurence, Catherine Day, Karolina Wolflahn (les bigottes)
Iona (le chien)

PLOT SUMMARY

Two young blind women are sent to the religious orphanage of Les Glycines where they are tended by by the nuns and Dr Dennary who hopes to discover the reason for their blindness. But the girls regain their sight at nights when they become vampires...

AVAILABILITY

France
Theatrical Distributors: Avia Films
Video Distributors: Film Office

USA
Video Distributors: Shriek Show
DVD Distributors: Shriek Show

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

UK
Rating: 15

TIMELINE

1997
July
9: France - theatrical release

2006
January
5: UK - television broadcast (on The Horror Channel)

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Two Orphan Vampires - US title

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

European Trash Cinema no.13 (December 1995) pp.14-17 (USA)
illustrated article (The genesis of Jean Rollin's Les deux orphelines vampires)

Fangoria no.149 (January 1996) pp.13-18; 68, 69 (USA)
illustrated article (Orphans of gore by Peter Blumenstock); illustrated interview with Brigitte Lahaie (Brigitte Lahaie: Once bitten by Peter Blumenstock)

Fangoria no.218 (November 2002) p.66 (USA)
DVD review (DVD Dungeon by Michael Gingold)

Positif no.440 (October 1997) pp.50-51 (France)
credits, review (by A.G.)

Premiere no.245 (August 1997) p.29 (France)
interview with Jean Rollin (Z-Files: Jean Rollin est notre Ed Wood à nous by Christopher Carrière)

Télérama no.2481 (30 July 1997) p.29 (France)
credits, review (by P.P. (real name: Philippe Piazzo))

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

book into film, teenagers, vampires

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009