Fascination (1979 film)

Fascination
Original poster
Directed byJean Rollin
Written byJean Rollin
Produced byChristine Renaud
Starring
CinematographyGeorgie Fromentin
Edited byDominique Saint-Cyr
Music byPhilippe D'Aram
Production
companies
Distributed byConsortium Européen Cinématographique[2]
Release dates
  • November 1979 (1979-11) (Germany)
  • [3] ([3])
  • 2 January 1980 (1980-01-02) (France)[2]
Running time
82 minutes[2]
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Fascination is a 1979 French horror film written and directed by Jean Rollin, and starring Franca Maï and Brigitte Lahaie. It focuses on a thief who seeks refuge in a remote château where two mysterious women with potentially sinister intentions are residing.

Plot

In April 1905, a group of fashionable Parisian women arrive at an abattoir to drink the blood of an ox as a way to cure anemia, and find the result successful.

Nearby a man named Marc, a thief, escapes from four other thieves. He is planning on heading to London with a bag of gold coins, but must take refuge from his pursuers. He discovers a château isolated in the mountains looked after by two chambermaids, Elizabeth and Eva, who are awaiting the arrival of the Marchioness and her servants. The women, who appear to be bisexual and in a romantic relationship, are not scared that Marc is possibly taking them hostage; rather, they find it, and him, attractive.

Eva sleeps with Marc, spurring jealousy from Elizabeth. The group of thieves discover where Marc is hiding, and begin shooting at the château. Eva goes outside to hand over the gold, but while two of them count it, the wife of one of the thieves takes Eva's dress. Eva seeks revenge by seducing her husband inside the stables before stabbing him to death; she also kills the woman and the two other men with a scythe.

The Marchioness later arrives with her servants, and they hold a party in which Marc is the only male, so he gets all the attention. When midnight comes, it is revealed that the women habitually lure people into the castle and drink their blood. Elizabeth helps Marc escape, so they hide out in the stables. Eva discovers them and Elizabeth shoots her out of jealousy. Elizabeth and Marc flee and Eva stumbles back to the château where the servants drain her blood. Marc confesses that he loves Elizabeth, whereas she admits that she never loved him and kills him. Elizabeth and the Marchioness go into the sunrise together.

Cast

  • Franca Maï as Elizabeth (credited as Franka Mai)
  • Brigitte Lahaie as Eva
  • Jean-Marie Lemaire as Marc
  • Fanny Magier as Hélène
  • Muriel Montosse as Anita
  • Sophie Noël as Sylvie (credited as Sophie Noel)
  • Evelyne Thomas as Dominique
  • Agnès Bert as herself (credited as Agnes Bert)
  • Cyril Val as Un Apache (credited as Alain Plumey)
  • Myriam Watteau as La Femme Apache
  • Joe De Palmer as Un Apache (credited as Joe De Lara)
  • Jacquel Sansoul

Release

Fascination was released theatrically in France by the Consortium Européen Cinématographique on 2 January 1980.[2]

Critical response

Reviewing the film on Blu-ray, Charlie Hobbs of Twitch Film wrote, "Upon my first viewing of this film, I found myself struggling a little bit to remain engaged at first, however, around the halfway point, the film picks up significantly and the third act is a thing of beauty".[4] Budd Wilkins of Slant Magazine, who reviewed the film as part of the five-disc set, wrote, "In Fascination, more than any other film in the set, the sexuality is staged in a manner befitting French erotica".[5]

Steven Jay Schneider, writing in the British Film Institute's Screen Classics book 100 European Horror Films (2019), likens Fascination to the silent films of Louis Feuillade, citing is sparing use of dialogue, adding: "The movie has a delirious dreamlike aura that is hard to shake off afterwards."[6]

Home media

Image Entertainment released Fascination on DVD in the US in 1999.[7]

Redemption Films released it on DVD in the UK on 28 October 2008 in its original aspect ratio, with special features including a trailer and stills gallery,[8] and again in 2012.[9]

In 2011, Kino Lorber acquired the Redemption Films catalogue,[10] and released Fascination on Blu-ray in 2012 as part of a five-disc Blu-ray collection, along with La Rose de Fer, La Vampire Nue, Le Frisson des Vampires and Lèvres de Sang.[11] A standalone Blu-ray and DVD were also released by Kino the same year.[12][13] Wicked-Vision Media released a limited mediabook Blu-ray edition in Germany with three alternate covers in 2019.[14]

References

  1. ^ a b Hobbs 2018, p. 210.
  2. ^ a b c d "Fascination de Jean Rollin (1979)". Unifrance. Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée. Archived from the original on 4 July 2022.
  3. ^ Fascination (1979) - Release info - IMDb. Retrieved 2025-01-17 – via www.imdb.com.
  4. ^ Hobbs, Charlie (23 January 2012). "Jean Rollin on Blu-ray: FASCINATION Review". Twitch Film. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015.
  5. ^ Wilkins, Budd (27 January 2012). "Flesh and Blood: The Cinema of Jean Rollin". Slant Magazine.
  6. ^ Schneider 2019, p. 85.
  7. ^ Fagan, Gregory P. (1 November 1999). "DISC ALERT.(video recording news includes seven boxed 'Nightmare on Elm Street' films)(Brief Article)". Playboy. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
  8. ^ Spurlin, Thomas (28 October 2010). "Fascination". DVD Talk. Archived from the original on 26 June 2023.
  9. ^ Dahlke, Kurt (15 January 2012). "Fascination". DVD Talk. Archived from the original on 26 June 2023.
  10. ^ Hurtado, J. (20 October 2011). "Kino Lorber Acquires Redemption Films Library Including Jean Rollin Classics". Twitch Film. Archived from the original on 9 August 2012.
  11. ^ Barrett, Michael (16 February 2012). "The Films of Jean Rollin". PopMatters. Archived from the original on 26 June 2023.
  12. ^ Hobbs, Charlie (23 January 2012). "Jean Rollin on Blu-ray: FASCINATION Review". Screen Anarchy. Archived from the original on 13 November 2016.
  13. ^ "Fascination DVD". Kino Lorber. Archived from the original on 26 June 2023.
  14. ^ "Fascination Blu-ray Germany (DigiBook / Limitiert auf 500 Stück)". Blu-ray.com. Archived from the original on 27 June 2023.

Sources

  • Hobbs, Simon (2018). Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema: Text, Paratext and Home Video Culture. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-474-42739-5.
  • Schneider, Steven Jay, ed. (2019). 100 European Horror Films. London, England: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-838-71403-1.

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