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Lèvres de sang (1975)

Country of Origin: France
Year of Production: 1975
Running Times: 88 mins
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Off Production / Scorpion V / Nordia Films
Producer: Jean-Marc Ghanassia

SCRIPT
Script: Jean Rollin
Adaptation: Jean-Loup Philippe, Jean Rollin
Dialogue: Jean-Loup Philippe

DIRECTION
Director: Jean Rollin
1st Assistant Director: Robert Bozzi
2nd Assistant Director: Jean-Jacques Birgé

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Jean-François Robin
Assistant Director of Photography: Gille Pollet
Chief Electrician: Jean de Vits
Electricians: Louis Coucke, Jean-Pierre Merel
Stills: Maxime Wong, Pierre Gautard

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Olivier Gregoire

MUSIC
Music: Didier William Lepauw

SOUND
Sound Engineer: Gérard Tilly
Sound Re-Recorded At: Studio Marcadet
Sound Effects: Imbert
Post Synchronisation: Records Films

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Éric Pierre

VISUAL EFFECTS
Titles: Eurocitel

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Decorator: Alain Pitrel

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Girl: Nathalie Perrey
Production Assistant: Dominique Desarthe

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks To: Anne de Solène; La maison bleue; CDC; Renault

CAST
Jean Lou Philippe (young man)
Annie Brilland (young woman)
Natalie Perrey
Martine Grimaud
Catherine Castel, Marie-Pierre Castel (twin vampires)
Hélène Maguin
Anita Berglund
Claudine Beccarie
Béatrice Harnois
Sylvia Bourdon
Mireille Dargent
Paul Biscaglia (psychiatrist)
Willy Braque
Julien Etchevery
Serge Rollin

PLOT SUMMARY

A young man become fascinated with a castle he sees on a poster, convinced that he can remember it from his childhood. He sets out to find it with the help of a mysterious woman in white and finds that his family have always been vampires without him realising it...

AVAILABILITY

France
Video Distributors: Colletorror; American/ Angoisse / Blacke; DIA; Iris; Cinetheque

Greece
Video Distributors: Sunset

Spain
Video Distributors: Apple

UK
Video Distributors: Salvation

USA
DVD Distributors: Image Entertainment Inc / Redemption

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

France
Rating: -16

UK
Rating: 15

TIMELINE

1975
May

18: France - theatrical release

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Lips of Blood - US title
Suce moi vampire - hardcore porn version

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Eurocinéma vol.26 (1975) pp.76-79 - France title
review (La terrible passion d'un frère et d'une soeur vampire...)

European Trash Cinema vol.2 no.8 p.27 (USA)
review

BOOKS

Aurum Encyclopedia of Film: Horror (2nd edition) pp.304?305
credits, review

The Illustrated Vampire Movie Guide by Stephen Jones p.81
credits, review

Necronomicon no.1 p.21
review

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

castles, cemeteries, coffins, curses, gothic, the occult, sex, the supernatural, vampires

 


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