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A Virgin Among the Living Dead is a espagnol film of genre Erotic directed by Jesús Franco with Howard Vernon

A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973)

Une virgen en casa de los muertos vivientes

A Virgin Among the Living Dead
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Length 1h18
Directed by ,    
OriginEspagne
Genres Erotic,    Fantastic,    Horror
Rating49% 2.453112.453112.453112.453112.45311

A Virgin Among the Living Dead is a 1972 Spanish-French Gothic horror film that was widely marketed as a zombie film.

It was released in France in 1973 as Christina, princesse de l'érotisme and in Italy in 1978 as I desideri erotici di Christine with new inserts featuring Alice Arno added to the film. Jesús Franco has said that the original shooting title of the film was The Night of the Shooting Stars / La nuit des étoiles filantes.

Producer Marius Lesoeur later had horror director Jean Rollin direct some newly filmed zombie footage that was added to Franco's film for its 1981 re-release. At this time, the English dub was also recorded.

Synopsis

A woman arrives from England to visit her estranged relatives in a small castle for the reading of her dead father's will, she eventually discovers that they are all undead and her decision to live with them turns into a nightmare. She learns that the Queen of the Night has claimed her father's eternal soul because he had committed suicide. Jess Franco himself played a co-starring role in this film as a mindless cretin named Basilio who walks the corridors talking in gibberish to a severed chicken's head.

Actors

Howard Vernon

(Uncle Howard)
Carmen Yazalde

(Carmencé)
Anne Libert

(The Queen of the Night)
Alice Arno

(Princess of Eroticism (added scene) (uncredited))
Jesús Franco

(Basilio)
Paul Müller

(Ernesto Pablo Reiner, Christina's father)
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