Originally filmed as La nuit des étoiles filantes (The Night of the Shooting Stars), Jess Franco felt that this movie was one of his favorites and he even appears as Basilio, a man who wanders the movie speaking to a chicken's head, and his wife Nicole Guettard is also on hand as a nurse.
But then, remixes started happening that had nothing to do with the original work Franco created.
It was released twice - as Christina, Princess of Eroticism in 1973 and in Italy in 1978 as The Erotic Dreams of Christine, both versions cwith porn inserts directed by Pierre Querut - before Jean Rollin was hired to shoot zombie footage, the porn inserts removed and a new title A Virgin Among the Living Dead.
Christina von Blanc (The Dead Are Alive) is Christina Benson, who has come to Europe for the reading of her father's (Paul Muller, a Franco regular) will. Soon learning that her relatives - like Howard Vernon as Uncle Howard - are all the living dead, she sees them as a way to avoid her loneliness and invites them to stay. But her father committed suicide, so the Queen of the Night (Anne Libert, The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein) owns his soul forever unless she can save him.
You know how Lisa and the Devil has another world that takes over our own? Franco does that here but, being Franco, it's filled with zooms, nudity and a gigantic phallus that all live in their own world, a place where things like logic, pace and common sense are cast aside much like the clothing of his actresses.
We should all commit to the joys of walking into the ghostly swamp.
But then, remixes started happening that had nothing to do with the original work Franco created.
It was released twice - as Christina, Princess of Eroticism in 1973 and in Italy in 1978 as The Erotic Dreams of Christine, both versions cwith porn inserts directed by Pierre Querut - before Jean Rollin was hired to shoot zombie footage, the porn inserts removed and a new title A Virgin Among the Living Dead.
Christina von Blanc (The Dead Are Alive) is Christina Benson, who has come to Europe for the reading of her father's (Paul Muller, a Franco regular) will. Soon learning that her relatives - like Howard Vernon as Uncle Howard - are all the living dead, she sees them as a way to avoid her loneliness and invites them to stay. But her father committed suicide, so the Queen of the Night (Anne Libert, The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein) owns his soul forever unless she can save him.
You know how Lisa and the Devil has another world that takes over our own? Franco does that here but, being Franco, it's filled with zooms, nudity and a gigantic phallus that all live in their own world, a place where things like logic, pace and common sense are cast aside much like the clothing of his actresses.
We should all commit to the joys of walking into the ghostly swamp.