Why is Jean Rollin's "Le Viol du Vampire" Called this way? (The Rape of the Vampire)

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I have not seen the entire movie, but from the snippets I have seen and the Wikipedia and other plot summaries, the movie does contain eroticism and violence but doesn't seem to involve rape.

Why such a title then?



Best Answer

The Wikipedia synopsis for the film seems to indicate that the film is named for the events which allegedly lead up to the first short:

Four sisters living in an old château are convinced that they are vampires. One believes she was raped by the villagers years before, and is blind; another is afraid of sunlight, and they all react violently to crucifixes.

And in the end:

Thomas asks one of the sisters to bite him to prove her wrong and discovers she is, in fact, a vampire.

Which would indicate it's probably true.




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