A Virgin Among The Living Dead (1973)
Feck me! This doesn't get any better with repeated viewings.
One of the least interesting Jess Franco films i've seen. The plot sounds okay - 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 - but it all feels really tired and listless, lacking the trademark sex and shocks usually associated with the great Franco. Franco excels himself with an acting performance that is downright bizarre. He never says a word just utters childlike gibberish that's unintelligible to my ears, meanwhile Howard Vernon spends the film singing songs at the castle piano.
Apparently it had a troubled production and was cut and re-cut , scenes added and then cut again. It really is a s bad as it sounds. Even the presence of the lovely Britt Nichols and Anne Libert from Franco's Daughter of Dracula and The Demons can't save this one.
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