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    by Apronikoff


I loved this movie. Despite the now hackneyed topic of lesbian vampires, this movie never feels like exploitation. Somehow it seems to rise above its baser elements.

Beautiful location photography, the now-legendary score, and, of course, the haunting presence of the gorgeous Soledad Miranda make this movie I'm glad to have in my collection.

It's a little slow, and the plot ultimately doesn't do much, but I was captivated throughout.

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    by DR44438


Really dated film, left no lasting impressions.
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    by Amy Brown



Soledad Miranda's greatest legacy.

This eurohorror classic by Jess Franco stars Soledad Miranda as Countess Nadine Carody, a wealthy recluse who strips at a club in Istanbul. Ewa Strömberg plays a woman who is strangely drawn to the Countess. Nadine appears in Linda's dreams, beckoning her. Linda is then sent to the Nadine's island on a business assignment. The film follows the course of the strange romance between Linda and Nadine. Linda falls under Nadine's spell and a living nightmare soon begins. This film mixes dream and reality in a terrific way. Franco appears as Memmet, a sadistic killer. Soledad is absolutely fantastic in this movie. She's very low-key, yet totally captivating all the same. You'll wish you could be possessed by her! Franco's direction involves crazy zoom shots, interspersed footage of insects (with a scorpion that perhaps is meant to mirror the Countess), and a funky pop-art style. The psychedelic music used throughout the movie was written by Manfred Hübler and Siegfried Schwab. Despite its European success, Vampyros Lesbos never received distribution in the United States. It was long considered the Holy Grail of the European lesbian vampire genre. It was a renaissance in interest in Jess Franco, as well as the chart-topping success of the soundtrack in the '90s, that brought the film back into attention. A must-see for anyone into Soledad Miranda, Jess Franco, or vampire movies!

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    by Gerard Newham

Slow, plodding and dull.

Usually, what you're looking for in a horror movie is horror. _Vampyros Lesbos_ fails to deliver in a big way.

The soundtrack is intrusive and jarringly mismatched to the action, such as it is, and each character appears to have selected at the outset the expression that he or she is to wear for the remainder of the film.

In essence, there is very little here to recommend, or to salvage the film from interminable boredom and chronic confusion. Abrupt editing does nothing to aid comprehension; frequent recourse to gratuitous lesbian erotica, similarly, adds nothing to the film as a whole.

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    by Giovanni Natoli

Fascinate.

It is hard to resist for me to see a story of female vampires...I know that my edition is not the complete but this little, strange movie fascinate me the same. The beauty of the actress, the hot sun revealed on the high-saturated photography, the sensuality that every vampire story must have and the incredibly strange fashion of the '70 really made this pelicula very fascinate!!! don't miss

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    by DN11720

Not quite mediocre.

This should be a love-it-or-hate-it movie, but instead its just pretty lacklustre, tame and tacky. Franco is a hack who occasionally plucks some striking images out of the dusty areas of his brain. Still, he's a more interesting character than, say, Simon West or Michael Bay, but maybe you should read about his exploits rather than watching the mostly dull films he made out of them.

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    by Darth Sidious

Terrible film!

Being a fan of all genres, different languages etcetc. I was keen on watching this film, but my enthusiasm was quickly diminished. The films' plot is dull and tedious, I had no feelings for the film.

The direction is terrible, poorly framed, not artistic at all.

The acting was okay, but the material they had was poor.

The lesbian material was rather boring. Don't think the film spends a lot of time on this subject, it doesn't. I don't think the lesbian vampire was at all interesting.

Overall, a terrible film. I viewed it in wide-screen.

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