Masters Of Midnight Erotic Tales Of The Vampire

Pandora is the first in a series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead. The novel opens in present day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is 2,000 years old, a child of the millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life through the ages…

The horror! The horror! The six films included in this 3-disc set represent some of the most legendary horror films from the early days of Hollywood. Each film boasts at least one huge star from this era: Bela Lugosi in "Mark of the Vampire" (1935), Boris Karloff and Myrna Loy in "Mask of Fu Manchu" (1932), Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray in "Doctor X" (1932), Humphrey Bogart in "Return of Doctor X" (1939), Peter Lorre in "Mad Love" (1935), and Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O'Sullivan in "The Devil Doll" (1936).

This low budget first film from director Jean Rollin is in reality two very loosely-connected, surreally erotic shorts about vampirism. In the first, three Parisians including a psychoanalyst try to convince four neurotic sisters living in a decaying country chateau that their belief that they are 200 year old vampires is false. The alluring young women are influenced and controlled by a enigmatic disembodied voice which turns out to be the an aging, aristocratic lord of the manor, whose motives are unclear but clearly perverse. Local rustics unite to hunt down and kill the sanguine siblings. In the second, the Queen of the Vampires and her acolytes arrive on the scene, resurrect the dead, and promulgate the cause of the Undead while a medical researcher works to find an antidote to vampirism.