Catherine Day

Director Jean Rollin proves he's the master of the lesbian vampire movie genre with this cinematic version of his novel of the same name. Louise and Henrietta are two orphans who can't see; unbeknownst to everyone else, though, their sight does return ... but only at night, when they roam the streets on the lookout for someone on which to feast.

A deformed Quasimodo type in a tattered military uniform stalks the French countryside, slaughtering any poor soul who gets in his way. A young couple's car breaks down dangerously close to the mutant and, after an inexplicable hallucinatory experience, the wife convinces her husband that it would be in there best interest to vacate the premises. By nightfall they find shelter from a raging storm in a suspicious gothic manor.