Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

While this movie is 2 years older than I am, I still decided to sit down to watch it. Why? Well, because it is a zombie movie, and I am a huge zombie afficianado. Anything even remotely zombie, and I am there.It turns out that "A Virgin Among the Living Dead" (aka "La nuit des étoiles filantes") was a rather boring and uneventful movie. Who could have guessed?The story seemed pointless, to be bluntly honest, and it was really hard to immerse oneself into the movie and absorb it.The characters are one-dimensional and you don't really take a particular liking to any of them.I was unfortunate enough to watch an English dubbed version, which was just awful as dubbing usually is. Per default I try to avoid dubbed versions because a movie should always be enjoyed in its original language. And then when you have questionable dubbing, like it was here, it just worsens the movie experience."A Virgin Among the Living Dead" was hardly a memorable movie or an outstanding movie. I have now seen it once and can check it off my "watched movie" list, and I know that I will never return to watch it again.

This was certainly one strange movie: Carmencé (Britt Nichols) is doing her toenails during a funeral service, and a head as a flower vase is in her room. Christina (Christina von Blanc) even drops in unexpectedly while Carmencé is licking blood from a blind girl (Linda Hastreiter).Everyone keeps telling Christina that no one lives in the castle she is visiting. One has to wonder as they do not eat with her. Maybe they are ghosts. They certainly don't object when she inherits everything from her father.She not only sees her dead father (Paul Muller) several times, but he talks to her. Is she dreaming? Is she dead and just doesn't know it? Death runs though this film.I have to say for a low budget film, it was beautifully done; the scenery and music were very good, and it was strangely interesting.

Christina, Princesse de L'Erotism starts as a young woman named Christina Benson (Christina von Blanc) arrives at her late father's mansion for the reading of his will. Christina is greeted by by her Uncle Howard (Howard Vernon) & Aunt Abigail (Rosa Palomar), also there is a strange woman named Carmence (Britt Nichols) who Howard claims is 'part of the family' & a blind woman named Linda (Linda Hastreiter) who is there for the hell of it. Strange things begin to happen, Christina sees visions of her dead father &, well, that's it really.This French, Italian & Liechtenstein (!) co-production was actually shot in German language & is known more commonly under the exploitative title of Virgin Among the Living Dead among English speaking audiences despite the original version not containing any virgin's or living dead, written & directed by Jesus 'I have no talent' Franco who also has a fairly large role in the film as a retarded mute weirdo (insert your own joke here...) I thought Christina, Princesse de L'Erotisme was absolutely terrible in every single way. First thing to say is that this piece of crap is available in several different versions including one with zombie footage from Jean Rollin's Zombie Lake (1981) spliced in, people criticize distribution companies for messing around with director's work but in this case I feel they were just trying to make a decent film out of a utterly crap piece of s*it. I will be basing my comments on the 2003 so-called uncut 80 odd minute 'Euroshock' DVD cut but when all said & done a piece of s*it by any other name still smells as bad. For a start I don't want to sit down to watch a film & be bored out of my skull, unfortunately Christina, Princesse de L'Erotisme did just that. The plot is incomprehensible, it makes zero sense, the character's are awful & don't act like any normal person would, the dialogue sounds like it was written by five year old's & there isn't even any decent exploitation in it. I hate Franco films, I just don't understand why he has any fans at all & this piece of crap has done nothing to change my opinion.I don't normally launch personal attacks on director's but in the case of Jesus 'I have no talent' Franco I'll make an exception, I think he is quite simply the worst filmmaker of all time. His films look terrible, they are full of ugly zooms which are often out of focus, jerky & aren't framed properly. The rest of the photography is just point & shoot, there really isn't anything else to his work & those who accuse him of having style are obviously looking at something different than I am. Christina, Princesse de L'Erotisme also has virtually no exploitation elements, there are a few naked women, one woman sucks the blood from another's cut breast, there's a severed arm & that's it. It's not scary, there's no tension or atmosphere, I didn't care what happened to anyone & while some might be charitable & describe it as surreal I just describe it as an absolute boring mess.Technically the film is poor, hell this is a Jesus 'I have no talent' Franco film so what did you expect? The acting is awful as is the dubbing.Christina, Prinecesse de L'Erotisme is yet another terrible film from Franco, I hated it & it's as simple & straight forward as that. Some like Franco's films & if your one of them then you'll probably like this but if your looking for a good horror film, or just a good film for that matter then give this one a wide a berth as you possibly can.

Decent mix of sleaze and spookery. Howard Vernon heads a household of seemingly living but dead folk and there is a sense of decadence as well as of death throughout. Plenty of bare flesh helps fill in where there are the usual lapses in Franco's narrative (speaking of which, in this he features as a grunting mute and still manages to overact). Some good stuff including nude bathing among lily pads and the surreal dialogue with the ever retreating father as hanged man. Good photography (except for the zooms, unless they are towards young flesh, of course) and a fine score from Bruno Nicolai. All in all, likable and enjoyable. Disc includes alternative endings with Romero like zombies.