Rollin's Bride: Shiver of the Vampires

While I was thinking about it, I haven't read articles or seen interviews of Rollin to verify one way or another, but the bride within the castle of stone, its greenery peekabooing thereabouts, steps and stairs peppering the grounds, and large-mouth iron gates creaking open irritatingly (yes, on occasion, I can get all detail-heavy in describing where Rollin had the privilege of shooting his movie) seemed to be a dream brought to film by the director. Not many of us get to do that, right? The beautiful bride ascending or descending the steps of a castle ruins towards the cemetery with its cross gravestones as far as the eye can see. There are plenty of creaky iron gates and steel bar mausoleums. And the quiet of the dead, a cemetery which has a surprise or two: the undead. Isobele. I can just imagine now that Rollin had awaken from this dream where he saw this bride, her dress dragging across the stone, saying goodbye to her cousins, walking quietly among the dead, a cemetery holding a secret she'd soon discover. Isolde, emerging from the grandfather clock (I also had to wonder if this came from a dream of Rollin's as well), to "greet" the bride (having shed her dress, her naked flesh reaching for the gown, startled by this woman with quite the quirky introduction). It seemed to me to be Rollin offering his dreams to us.