Vampyros Lesbos
by Jesus Franco
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Actor: Dennis Price, Jesus Franco, Soledad MirandaDirector: Jesus Franco
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); English (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
Published: 2004-10-01
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-05
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Image Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Vampyros Lesbos
DVD Review: It's Jess Franco, how good can it be?
Summary: 2 Stars
Vampyros [censored for Amazon consumption] (Jess Franco, 1971)
Why oh why do I keep watching Jess Franco films? Well, I do know the answer in this single case: Soledad Miranda. A stunningly beautiful woman, easily on a par with any of today's "supermodels", cut short in her prime. While she made quite a few movies, you can't find too many of them in domestic release on DVD, so you take what you can get, and you're thankful for it. Unfortunately, most of them are Jess Franco films. Ah, well.
Miranda here plays Nadine Carody, a Transylvianian countess who has inherited everything owned by the last of the Dracula family. She, too, is a vampire (though it would be tough to recognize this by the general conventions of the genre; she has, among other things, quite a passion for [censored for Amazon consumption] sunbathing). Unlike most female vampires (at least, those about whom movies have been made), she hates men thanks to a childhood traumatic event, thus the title of the movie. Pretty obvious, huh? Ewa Stromberg, another of Franco's regulars (she and Miranda had previously teamed up in The Devil Came from Akasava) plays a lawyer who is tasked to execute Count Dracula's will. While on her way to the island where the reclusive (when she's not dancing in a strip club, anyway) Nadine lives, she is accosted by an odd little man at her hotel (played by Franco himself-- who looks for all the world like my father-in-law, which didn't help matters much) who warns her to stay away from the Island, for "death reigns there." Ah, wonderful horror movie foreshadowing! She gets to the island, finds out that Nadine is the woman she's been seeing in her dreams, and that Nadine has a lot more to discuss with her than some musty old artifacts that have been left to her-- and that much of the discussion must be [censored for Amazon consumption]...
Yeah, the plot is thin as paper, as is the case with many of Franco's movies, and is only there to provide a framework for all the really attractive [censored for Amazon consumption] people slithering around all over one another. And maybe I'm not a typical male, but you know, really attractive [censored for Amazon consumption] people slithering around all over one another can only take a movie so far. Franco's a competent enough director when he puts his mind to it, and his mind was to it here, but the awful script, the pathetic attempts at symbolism (oh, the poor scorpion!), the terrible pacing, the garish set design... it's a tough movie to watch when Soledad Miranda's not on the screen. Still, to get a Soledad Miranda fix, I'm sure many, many people have done much, much worse. **
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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 Str??mberg), calling her to her castle in Anatolia, on business from which Westinghouse never returns. Linda's boyfriend, Omar (Andr?©s 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, clich?©d 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"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
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