Requiem for a Vampire (1971)
Requiem for a Vampire, also known as Caged Virgins and Vierges et Vampires, is a French film by Jean Rollin. It stars Marie-Pierre Castel and Mireille Dargent as two schoolgirls who start out dressed as clowns riding in a getaway car while firing pistols at a pursuing car. They lose the following car, but the guy driving their car is shot and killed, so they burn the dead guy and the car and make their getaway on a motorbike. The motorbike runs out of gas and they continue on foot. We follow them on their seemingly interminable wandering escape until they happen onto a castle inhabited by an aging vampire and his followers. There's a very brief fully nude lesbian interlude between the two girls in the castle before the vampires show up, which is an unexpected treat.
The story is a confused mess, both convoluted and illogical in the extreme. It is possible it is an existential statement addressing our seemingly confused and pointless (one might even say "clown-like") journey through life viewed as an escape from a reality to which we must ultimately submit. Or it is simply a pretentious 70s-era French film.
I will just focus on the GIMP bits.
At the 32:20 minute mark, we get a welcome respite from a long and dreary chase scene during which the three male henchmen briefly capture and hold the two girls down onto a stone table and sort of ravish them, but it's not a big deal if you miss it. Instead, fast-forward to the 39:00 minute mark, which is when the girls are finally captured and taken into the castle. Upon arrival, we are treated to three helpless women chained AOH to the castle walls. The three male henchmen each have their way with these women. There is clothes tearing, overwrought groping, overwrought nuzzling, manhandling, breast biting, threatened breast burning with a flaming torch, and dry humping which I'm sure is intended to portray rape except none of the guys undressed and there was never even a hint that any of the guys opened their pants. But still, it is a decent AOH assault on three helpless and eventually naked women, all with copious 70s bush (although technically I guess this would be Euro-bush).
The climax scene features a bat fucking, eating out, or sucking blood from the hairy bush of one of the women. I suspect it is fucking her since she appears to climax herself. I kid you not.
I shamelessly stole the preceding vidcaps from Movie-Censorship.com showing some highlights of the dungeon assault scene, specifically the bits trimmed out of the censored version. (There are several more at the website if you would like to view them.) All in all, the dungeon naked AOH ravish-and-rape scene runs 10 minutes(!), with a brief pause in the middle while the girls get bitten.
There is some exposition revealing the vampires' story, then the two girls are sent out to procure fresh victims for the vampire master. The next day each of the two girls dutifully seduce a guy. The really cute blond (Marie-Pierre Castel) gets her cherry popped by her guy in an outdoor sex scene that is kind of hot since she's obviously being penetrated for the first time.
The other brown-haired girl (Mireielle Dargent) undresses and lets her guy chase her around the castle until she bonks him on the head with a rock. So there's a fair amount of nudity from both girls.
The cute blond doesn't want to surrender her guy to the vampire gang. Her brown-haired friend, however, is concerned that they will be punished or killed if she doesn't, so the next thing we know (at the 1 hour and 18:00 minute mark), the cute blond is chained AOH and naked while the other girl whips her. (The first two sets of pictures below are also lifted from Movie-Censorship.com, by the way.) It lasts for 2 minutes and 30 seconds (with about 20 seconds in the middle when the camera pans outside the castle walls as you hear the impact of the whip and the girl's scream) and finishes with one of the female vampires threatening to poke the girl's eye out with a stiletto. It is a pretty decent AOH naked whipping and torture scene.
The movie winds down pretty quickly after this point. The henchmen get shot. The old vampire lets the girls go free. They run off in the end.
I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. It is painfully slow getting started, but the chained women being ravished and raped was a nice, lengthy scene and the AOH whipping scene was exceptionally nice. Of course, both scenes were shot in dungeon lighting, which was dark with a yellow-orange cast and dark with a bluish cast, respectively. The chained women's responses to being ravished and raped were lackluster, but the hot blond being whipped let out some great screams.
I will give this a solid B for the GIMP bits.
This is currently running on Netflix Streaming (the uncut version, as far as I can tell). It is also available as a recent Redemption re-issue on Amazon.com for $14.99. The image from the cover is straight out of the AOH whipping scene.
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