Vampyros Lesbos (1971)

Directed by

Jesús Franco

Genre

horror film, vampire film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Germany, Spain

Runtime

1h 29m

Rated

16

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 149 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An American woman working in Turkey has erotic dreams about a vampire who seduces her. When she travels to an island to handle an inheritance, she meets the woman from her dreams.

eroticdreamlikepsychedelicseductivehypnoticatmosphericslow-burnunsettling

What happens

Vampyros Lesbos (Spanish: Las Vampiras) is a 1971 erotic horror film written and directed by Jesús Franco (credited as Franco Manera). The film stars Ewa Strömberg as Linda Westinghouse, an American who works in a Turkish legal firm. Westinghouse has a series of erotic dreams that involve a mysterious vampire woman (played by Soledad Miranda, credited as Susann Korda) who seduces her before feeding on her blood. When she travels to an island to settle an inheritance, Linda recognizes a woman as the vampire from her dreams. The film was shot in 1970 in Turkey. It was a popular success in theaters in Europe on its release and was the first film to have a more psychedelic score for a Franco film and the first to have a prominent lesbian theme. The film's score became popular in the mid-1990s when it was included on the compilation album Vampyros Lesbos: Sexadelic Dance Party, which reached the top ten on the British Alternative charts. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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