Tits Out.
We transitioned from Pride Month discussions of Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later (listen) and ’90s nostalgia in Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: The Movie (listen) into summer blockbuster territory with Jaws (listen) last week. Now we’re inching the dial up a few years to discuss French director Jean Rollin‘s “lesbian vampire film” Fascination (1979).
The quotes are there because these characters, particularly the women, are much more sexually fluid, and there’s no actual vampires present (if anything this is a film about a cult!).
In case you’re unaware, Fascination is the story of a duplicitous thief named Marc (Jean-Marie Lemaire) who seeks refuge in a French castle with his stolen loot. He mistakenly believes the place is empty until he happens upon Eva (Brigitte Lahaie) and Elizabeth (Franca Maï), female lovers who allow him to hide but also tease that he must be gone by nightfall.
Marc, cocky and confident, takes no stock in the women’s words and quickly finds himself confronted by a group of women. The group does not seem threatened by him, and even appear to an ulterior motive. Has Marc found true love with Elizabeth or is this all a ruse to sacrifice him? Does Elizabeth actually care about her relationship with Eva? And how will the scythe that features prominently in the cover art come into play?!
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Episode 342: Fascination (1979)
Show your tits and grab that scythe because we’re talking our very first Jean Rollin text: 1979’s Fascination.
The lesbian vampire film is gorgeous and dreamy with several subversive twists, including the fact that this is not actually a vampire movie.
Plus: women in control, a truly shitty man, sheer veils, connections to porn and struggling with the feminist/class readings.
Cross out Fascination!
Coming Up Next: We’re hankering for pizza and a sleepover, so let’s check out the female written and directed franchise starter, The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)!
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