A group of vampires terrorizes a small village on the German North Sea Coast. The young Jonathan joins a group of fellow students and locals, who plan an uprising against the vampires.
Cinematography
Fog-drenched North Sea landscapes that breathe.
Direction
Geißendörfer's debut: controlled, chilly, provocative.
Director
Hans W. Geißendörfer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Marketed as 'the first adult vampire film' to distance from Hammer horror camp and Dracula clichés, positioning itself as serious European art cinema.
Geißendörfer later became a prolific TV director; this theatrical debut was his only real flirtation with horror.
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