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A Psycho-Sexadelic Horror Freakout!
An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.
Vampyros Lesbos
1971 Directed by Jesús Franco
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Las vampiras, Vampiros lesbos, Das Mal des Vampirs, Im Zeichen der Vampire, Schlechte Zeiten für Vampire, Vampiras Lésbicas, Vampyros Lesbos: Die Erbin des Dracula
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Horror, the undead and monster classics Intense violence and sexual transgression horror, creepy, eerie, blood or gothic vampires, blood, undead, horror or cool horror, creepy, frighten, eerie or chilling sex, sexuality, relationships, erotic or feelings cannibals, gory, gruesome, graphic or shock Show All…
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A woman in trouble.
Instantly and persistently disorienting and gorgeous. Transmutes Stoker's syphilitic fear of female desire into a complete rejection of the "rational" world of men. One of the great sex films of all time.
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Franco’s take on the classic vampire tale. A sizzling psychosexual abstract nightmare that feels like some weirdo erotic symphony of psychedelic blood poetry—going above and beyond to onslaught our full array of senses with style, beauty, and blood red hypnotism.
Perhaps my favorite Franco, the Severin disc is fantastic... perfectly representing this amazing period in his career—sex and blood may never look better.
Soledad Miranda is absolutely electric. -
I came across a factory sealed unopened remastered DVD for a great price on eBay that I couldn’t pass up! This is not a great movie by any means but is a B movie cult classic! When I originally saw this movie it was on VHS which the tape was in bad shape and many scenes where discolored. This remaster looked very beautiful. Many scenes are shot to look very artistic and to appreciate this movie the most it should be scene in the best quality version you can find. Many scenes are very striking! I did notice the color and texture of the blood used looked bad which it looked like they made their blood look like the blood…
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inevitable slide from mania to deprssn is a kind of vampiric desperation where you are sucking meaning ///not blddd/// from anything you can find &&& teetering on the brink cliche of loom of void where this is hands or claws grasping fr hold on smooth walls of a pit or no walls at all & even the sunlight is barren for drowning scorpions. the vampire was always imbedded with its on inversion / negative, which is vampyros lesbos, in jazz beaches & streaks of neon red. take alongside the argento canon where (old/masc) power is ceding (in this case inverted) and we're dealing with it & part of that disintegration of the old order is a celebration but then there are the reverberations of…
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"Men still disgust me; I hate them all!"
After our mutual disappointment with Tender Flesh, we resolved to make another foray into the voluminous Jess Franco filmography. This time we opted for a more prominent title, 1971's Vampyros Lesbos. Though technically a West German-Spanish co-production, the film was shot with an international cast (dubbed into German for the most part) in Istanbul, Turkey.
The scenario follows the erotic and paranormal exploits of Linda Westinghouse (Ewa Strömberg), an American lawyer working in Turkey. Linda's fixation on a recurrent sex dream about a beguiling lady vampire who lives on a remote island precipitates some precarious exploration when traveling for work. Linda meets the Countess Nadine Carody (Soledad Miranda)—the heiress to the Dracula…
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Dracula as told through the sexual nightmares of Renfield set to the greatest original rock score of all time. Insects, scarves, and the color red like Ariadne's thread through the zoom labyrinth. Sexual obsession is a vampire of sorts, Uncle Jess suggests as he stages his most bizarre floor show yet.
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SHOCKtober 20 of 31
In the spirit of the season and second chances, Richard and I decided to toe the Franco waters once more after we dove headfirst into the shallow cesspool that was his 1997 misadventure Tender Flesh. With Vampyros Lesbos, in a flurry of serial establishing shots and dizzying zooms, Jess Franco decoupages a faintly mesmeric vampire seduction plot onto the sunny shores of Istanbul’s Üküdar, featuring a modernization of Dracula’s castle, a psychedelic dance soundtrack and overt scorpion symbolism.
Linda Westinghouse (Ewa Strömberg) is a legal representative handling the inheritance of Countess Nadine Carody (Soledad Miranda) from the late Count Dracula. After attending Nadine’s erotic lesbian striptease at a local club, Linda is plagued by a series of…
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Jess Franco's masterpiece? An erotic lesbian psychosexual odyssey. Shades of Dracula build into a plot involving a seductive vixen vampire who bewitches a female lawyer that is sent to her island to resolve an inheritance. It's not the plot that is important here - it's all about the visuals and atmosphere. Franco made so many films that I have to wonder how much thought he actually put into each one - but whether on purpose or by accident, there's so much about this film that works well. The bold black and red colour scheme, the hazy dreamlike ambiance, the focus on blood and sex and of course Soledad Miranda who really carries much of the film in a breathtaking lead performance. There's plenty of lesbian vampire films, but Vampyros Lesbos is a real standout.
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There's a scorpion in this film who should get top billing - he makes about nine appearances in total, including a dramatic death scene (solid acting btw - at least I hope it was acting). We're introduced to Mr. Scorpion through a series of excellent unnecessary zoom shots, as JF makes sure we don't miss the subtle symbolism on offer.
This was only my second Jess Franco film, after The Diabolical Dr. Z, but I'm getting the distinct impression this guy was a fuckin dude. Deliriously trashy plots, wicked camera work and style to burn. Here, he takes the old Dracula story and gives it a delicious twist, in the form of Countess Nadine Carody, who lures women into her…
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Man there's a lot going on here. Most obviously, we've got a vampire story — featuring an actual female partner of the OG Dracula, we're told — about blood, seduction, and death. Beneath that surface, however, we've also got women desperate for something more than the life by which they're expected to be satisfied, as well as vampirism as a metaphor for lesbianism, and the institutionalization of women as a consequence of their desire for another woman.
While I doubt he had any particularly deep ideas in mind when he made Vampyros Lesbos, director Jess Franco nevertheless seems to take pains to illuminate the profoundly routine nature of Linda Westinghouse's (Ewa Strömberg) life. She gets sent to Turkey for work,…
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One of the sexiest horror films ever made, let alone one of the most invigorating experiences of that sort. Yet beyond that, there's so much more to Jess Franco's Vampyros Lesbos which makes everything all the more rewarding. This German-Spanish erotic horror film is the best sort of sleazy European horror: one that knows how to provide a feast for the eyes but at the same time there was so much more that made what could appear as trashy horror into something more meaningful. Provocative, seductive, and terrifying all in equal measure and in the best sense is only where the fun begins.
The film opens with what appears to be a dream that depicts the vampire Nadine performing a…
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