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We're taking a trip to Belle Epoque-era France for an erotic, bloodsucking horror film with first-time guest host, Sam Lenz, one half of the team from the Screams from the Basement Podcast! We take a look at French auteur, Jean Rollin and his 1980 classic film, Fascination, about a criminal on the run taking refuge in a not-so-abandoned chateau where two strange and sinister chambermaids are waiting for the arrival of their mistress and her followers for a mysterious midnight ritual, all while a gang waits outside the walls to take back what the criminal stole from them. It's bizarre, it's sensual, it's poetic, it's...French! Made by a filmmaker who was sadly under-appreciated during his lifetime and is now starting to see the recognition that eluded him, this atmospheric and tense thriller plays with the viewers expectations, presenting haunting ...