Estella Blain

  • André Hunebelle – Les Collégiennes AKA The Twilight Girls (1957)

    1951-1960André HunebelleDramaFrance

    A beautiful and sophisticated teenager is placed in a regimented French girls’ boarding school after her father apparently commits suicide over a business scandal. She immediately gains admirers — a lustful middle-aged artist, a handsome young composer, a fellow female student — as well as a jealous rival. With the help of her schoolmates, she attempts to elope with the composer, but the adults catch on to the plot, and she is locked into her room at night.Read More »

  • Jesús Franco – Miss Muerte AKA The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966)

    1961-1970FranceHorrorJesus FrancoSci-Fi

    The film stars Mabel Karr as Irma Zimmer, a surgeon who creates a machine that turns people into zombified slaves. Ms. Zimmer is the daughter of a Professor Zimmer (a disciple of Dr. Orloff), who was hounded to his death several years earlier by four of his scientific associates. Zimmer uses the machine to control an erotic dancer named Miss Muerte (Estella Blain) who uses her long poison-tipped fingernails to murder the people Ms. Zimmer holds responsible for her father’s death.Read More »

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