Beyond being Jess Franco's masterpiece, Vampyros Lesbos is a highpoint of the lesbian vampire film genre. Like Daughters of Darkness, The Vampire Lovers, and the New Wave vampire film, The Hunger, Vampyros features an extremely hot vampire, Countess Nadina Carody (Soledad Miranda), who dances at strip clubs in her spare time. In a brutally sexy opening scene, Miranda hypnotically seduces audience member Linda Westinghouse (Ewa Strömberg), calling her to her castle in Anatolia, on business from which Westinghouse never returns. Linda's boyfriend, Omar (Andrés Monales),... eventually finds Linda institutionalized, cared for by one Dr. Seward. The characters in Vampyros Lesbos are foils for the cast of Bram Stoker's Dracula, in radical opposition to the traditional, clichéd horror film stereotypes. Psychedelic moments, like when Linda is seduced by the Queen of the Night, recall the grainy, erotic scenes of Jean Rollin's Requiem Pour Un Vampire, and Le Frisson Des Vampires. To dwell on the convoluted plot is clearly missing the point. With arguably the best horror movie soundtrack every released, Vampyros Lesbos revels in the sultry aspects of vampirism, resulting in long, romantic sequences of nude women playing in ocean waves, lying on chaise lounges, and making out in bed. Franco's other films, like She Killed in Ecstasy and Venus in Furs, serve as sequels, so see this first. In fact, see this film period. --Trinie Dalton [show more]
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Jess Franco co-writes and directs this German horror. When Linda Westinghouse (Ewa Stroemberg) visits an exotic nightclub, she finds herself entranced by the sight of a beautiful young woman performing an erotic dance with an animated mannequin. Over the following days, she becomes increasingly troubled by the powerful pull she felt towards this young woman, and jumps at the chance to take a business trip to the island of Countess Nadine Carody (Soledad Miranda), hoping that it will keep her mind occupied. But as chance would have it, the Countess and the dancer are one and the same woman, and she has a whole store of vampiric delights ready and waiting for the innocent Linda...
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. From Jess Franco, the filmmaker The Vatican called "the most dangerous director in the world", comes the most celebrated movie of his legendary career: Stunning Soledad Miranda stars as a vixen vampire who lures women to a Mediterranean island to satisfy her insatiable lust for female flesh and blood. It's a mind-bending odyssey of surreal erotica and '70s EuroHorror, featuring the psycho-sexadelic soundtrack that remains a global phenomenon. Ewa Strömberg [SHE KILLED IN ECSTASY], Dennis Price [VENUS IN FURS], Paul Muller [NIGHTMARE CASTLE] and Franco himself co-star in this landmark cult classic, now remastered in HD and featuring all-new extras filmed with the director shortly before his death. Experience Franco's masterpiece like you've never seen or heard it before! Extras: Vampyros Jesus: Interview with writer/director Jess Franco; Sublime Soledad: Interview with Soledad Miranda Historian Amy Brown; Stephen Thrower on Vampyros Lesbos: Interview with author of Murderous Passions The Delirious Cinema of Jess Franco; Jess is Yoda clip; Alternate German Opening Title Sequence Dracula's Heiress; German Trailer; English subtitles.
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