Distributor:
AV Channel - Umbrella Entertainment Certificate: R18+
Director: Jess Franco
Cast: Soledad Miranda, Ewa
Stroemberg, Dennis Price, Paul Muller, Jess Franco
As soon as the opening scene of a kind of performance art
show kicks in featuring a woman
slowly slipping off all her
clothes and then dressing an
already naked lady accompanied
by one of the funkiest organ
tracks you’ll ever hear you
know you are in for one strange
movie.
We quickly learn that the “performance artist” is
Countess Nadine Carody (Soledad Miranda); Linda Westinghouse (Ewa
Stroemberg) and her fiancée Omar (Andres Morales) soon come under the
spell of the sinister countess.
Very loosely based on Bram Stokers sort story Dracula’s
Guest, Vampyros Lesbos is part art house movie, part tacky seventies
sex-horror flick, director Franco was certainly prolific, making 8 films
in 1970 alone, even acting in some of them (here he takes on the role of
a husband whose wife has already succumbed to the Countess); There is
sex and nudity unlimited and arthouse leanings with seemingly
unconnected shots of scorpions and balloons and sets dripping with
vibrant reds, best of all though is the uber funky soundtrack, all
Hammond organ and Wah Wah guitar, absolutely priceless.
Not everyone will get this movie but for those who do its
certainly more than worth a look also watch out for the great Dennis
Price in a small role as the head Doctor at a Sanitorium.
No Extras.
Strange But True: Star Soledad Miranda died in a car crash
just two weeks after the movie opened.
