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 Daughters of Darkness DVD Uncensored Widescreen Director's Cut (DVD)
Description: Theatrical Release: 1971 / Director: Harry Kumel / Actors: Danielle Ouimet, Andrea Rau ... / Features of the DVD: PAL Newest Review: ... Countess is played by Delphine Seyrig, who gives an iconic performance as the ageing lesbian vampire, desperate for love and ... more  ... not quite as in control as she likes to pretend. She looks fantastic with her immaculate hairstyle and wonderful gowns. The rest of the cast are adequate, nothing more or less. The two younger women are both very pretty, and happily we get to see both of them naked. In spite of its subject matter, though, there's not really much sex in the film. There's one fairly raunchy scene right at the beginning, but it's disappointingly light on the lesbianics. There's also precious little blood on display. I think this one h...more |
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Daughters of Darkness DVD Uncensored Widescreen Director's Cut (DVD): 'An erotic nightmare of vampire lust' (743 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 08.04.08 (Very useful, 77 readings)
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A review of just the film. This is a semi-arthouse vampire movie from 1971, one of the few horror films I can think of to have come from Belgium. It's a very odd blend of lurid nudity and wannabe high art and I suspect it might be partly responsible for the terrible degradation of the vampire film that came about in the 80s and 90s. Newlyweds Stefan and Valerie are staying in a deserted hotel in Ostend while Stefan overcomes his reluctance to contact his wealthy mother. They are soon joined by an older woman, Countess Bathory, and her pretty young companion, Ilona. But why does the hotel porter maintain that the Countess visited 40 years earlier and ...
