"Directed by the unheralded John Hancock in 1971, this is a hippie-era curiosity – a film once so obscure the few who'd seen it thought it might have been a dream, which is now gaining in reputation. It's at once an anatomy-of-a-crack-up film constructed around Zohra Lampert's extraordinary, fragile performance as a woman who can't distinguish reality from fantasy, and a vampire movie about a flower child (Mariclare Costello) who drains the blood from an entire town of unfriendly, scarred folks. The last reels manage a symphony of shudders and a succession of beautiful, creepy images. The dead girl walking out of the lake is perhaps the single scariest image I retain from horror film-viewing in my teens. It's still unsettling." - Kim Newman, Focus Features