Frederick sees a photograph of a ruined seaside castle, which triggers a strange childhood memory. He then goes on a strange quest, aided by four female vampires, to find the castle and the beautiful woman who lives there.
Letterboxd review by Paul E. ★★★½:
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Drenched with an assertive colour palette which director Jean Rollin purposefully channels to formulate a precise mood of surrealism, Lips of Blood is an unexpectedly poignant horror story with themes of misplaced affection and the unrealistic pursuit of idealism. It tells the tale of Frédéric, portrayed by Jean-Lou Philippe, as he becomes plagued by a constant nightmarish vision of a historical estate and a glamorous woman in a white garment who seems to reside within the property.
Vampirism is used to symbolise the concepts of independence and sentimentality, and the traditional recurring ideas of alluring female vampires are presented with some unusual decorative features and otherworldly landscapes. While it doesn’t entirely achieve its aims in being the teenage counterculture fable that it aspires to be, there’s a plethora of metaphysical mystique where the personal dispassion towards contemporaneity is represented with urgent confliction.
Lips.of.Blood.1975.BDRIP.4K.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv General Container: Matroska Runtime: 1 h 26 min Size: 2.06 GiB Video Codec: x264 Resolution: 956x576 Aspect ratio: 5:3 Frame rate: 23.976 fps Bit rate: 3 000 kb/s BPP: 0.227 Audio #1: French 1.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Main Audio) #2: English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Commentary with horror experts Kim Newman & Stephen Jones)
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Language(s):French, English (commentary)
Subtitles:English