A Virgin Among the Living Dead

A Virgin Among the Living Dead

She's going down.

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Release Date

11/15/1973

Runtime

79 mins

Genres

Overview

A girl arrives from London to visit her estranged relatives in a remote castle for the reading of her father's will. After a while she discovers that they are all in fact dead and her decision to live with them turns into a nightmare. Unable to leave she's drawn into a macabre underworld through visions of nude satanic rituals and her own impending sacrifice.

Status

Released

Original Language

French

Budget

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Revenue

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A hallucinogenic descent into a decadent family's dark secrets, where Gothic atmosphere and surreal sexuality blur the line between reality and nightmare. The film moves through fever-dream logic, trapping its heroine in an increasingly perverted underworld of the dead.

Mood

Dread-soakedUnsettling

Themes

FamilyObsessionCorruption

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

Stylized genrePainterlyDesaturated

Structure

Nonlinear

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Sexual contentSexual violence

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