Driving in their car through Auveregne one summer two young girls Anna and Francoise find themselves in the kingdom of the mythic Morgana Queen of the Fairies. Ever since Merlin taught her his skills centuries ago Morgana has gone on living by obtaining the souls of young women who pass through her kingdom. In exchange she gives her captives eternal youth and beauty. Those who refuse her grow old in the dungeons of her castle.
Cult director Jean Rollin's first feature mixes existentialism and vampirism with the added ingredient of chaos. Originally made as a short it was expanded to a feature length with the dead cast inexplicably returning to life half-way through (having been killed off at the end of the original). That said 'Le Viol du Vampire' is a masterpiece of the bizarre mixing blood a naked woman in a convertable coffins and some fencing semi-naked nymphs in a fragmented melee. When originally screened in Paris in 1968 the film caused a riot due to its' audacious imagery...
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