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Simply A Masterpiece

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

This vampire film from director Jesus Franco is an unarguable example of a cult movie if ever there was one. It sure isn't going to appeal to everyone that's for sure. This is no ordinary horror movie – like a lot of Franco's films the horror is pretty half-hearted to say the least – it's much more left-field arty erotica. Franco is often criticised for being a bad film-maker, one who put out lots of films too quickly and with little care. To some degree this is true as his movies do always look like they were made fast and their low budgets always compromise them to some extent. Vampyros Lesbos exhibits these faults as well – it does have cheap sets and it does look like it has been made in a hurry – but this is one of the films from Franco that clearly shows that he had something really interesting to offer. His mix of horror, eroticism and surrealism puts him alongside French director Jean Rollin. At their best, both men made highly personal films that look more and more interesting and unique as each year goes by.Vampyros Lesbos can maybe best be described as a hallucinatory fever-dream. It has a striking feel and atmosphere. A great deal of its success can be put down to two things – its soundtrack and its lead actress, Soledad Miranda. The score by Manfred Hubler and Sigfried Schwab is pretty mind-blowing. It can perhaps best be described as psychedelic lounge music. It's very effective and creates an unusual ambiance all of its own. And as for Soledad Miranda, well she's pretty extraordinary. She starred in several Franco films at the time and she was always fantastic but this is her most famous and iconic role. Her character is Princess Nadine Korody; a mysterious vampire woman appears to a female lawyer in the form of a series of erotic dreams. Miranda is a very beautiful woman and she had an incredible screen presence. Her performance here is one of the greatest in erotic cinema. And the nudity never feels gratuitous with Miranda, always entirely natural and, dare I say it, beautiful. Ewa Strömberg is very sexy too but it's difficult competing with someone like Soledad Miranda and this is undoubtedly her film. The male cast has a few familiar faces but they are pretty negligible and there more for plot exposition purposes rather than anything much more. Franco himself does deserve some credit too for having the vision to bring all of this psychotronic madness to the screen in such a committed way. He does photograph things really interestingly at times, even if he is a bit of a zoom merchant.This is hardly a film for everyone. It's not even going to appeal to most horror fans. In fact it'll no doubt appal a lot of them. Because it's mainly about erotic imagery, as opposed to horror. And, like most Franco, it isn't plot driven in the least. Its story is a variation on 'Dracula' but it's more a means to an end and there is no attempt at generating suspense or anything like that. You have to be able to get into its very specific groove to get into it. It's overall a very strange film but for 70's Euro cult enthusiasts I would say this is an absolute must.

A West German/Spanish co-production set in Turkey starring a cast from all over Europe and directed by sleazy exploitation legend Jess Franco: it's no wonder that Vampyros Lesbos is a bit all over the place at times, with a disjointed narrative and the director's haphazard visual trademarks—rapid zooms, out of focus close-ups and random imagery—very much in evidence.But whereas Franco's 'distinctive' style has frequently had me struggling to stay awake in the past, in this instance it proves surprisingly beguiling—an irresistibly bizarre, hypnotic, exotic, erotic slice of 70s psychedelia, its zonked-out art-house ambiance heightened by an incredibly trippy score, a remarkably effective fusion of prog rock, sitar, jazz flute, organ and incomprehensible Satanic vocals.Of course, it doesn't hurt much either that the film's two female stars—Soledad Miranda and Ewa Strömberg—are absolutely ravishing and frequently disrobe to indulge in a spot of soft-core Sapphic love-making. Should you tire of the bonkers surreal nature of the film, the quality T&A should see you comfortably though to the end.

One of Jess Franco's most famous works, "Vampyros Lesbos" is also one of the most distinctive and fresh low-budget horror films that sprung in Europe during the early 70's. While it is a flawed affair, particularly as far as substance is concerned, it's style is so unique and otherworldly, that it's guaranteed to haunt and entice you for a long time after you watched. Adopting a stream-of-consciousness narrative, the film takes you into a feverish daydream (literally, as there are no night scenes in this one), loosely adapted from Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula", exploring the world of fetishes and sexual fantasies, through breathtaking psychedelic imagery of eroticized violence and exotic locales, as well as one hell of a groovy, nostalgic score by Manfred Hubler and Siegfried Schwab. Of course, the film wouldn't been nearly as memorable without the casting of Soledad Miranda in the role of Countess Narody - quite possibly the sexiest vampiress to have ever graced the silver screen, with her unforgettable exotic beauty and bone-chilling screen presence. Overall, an excellent little psychedelic gem, that even if bothers some viewers with it's strange appeal, is a must see if only to be entranced by Miss Miranda.

Calling director Jesus Franco a pornographer after watching Vampiros Lesbos would be unfair, but not simply for the face that he's directed many, many films throughout a career of B to Z grade projects. It's also because it would be too easy. The man is, after all, an "artist", or whatever might pass for one in 1970. He was 40 at the time and made a film that, for better or worse, is a part of a legacy of sex-horror trash that must be mentioned in any conversation about sexy naked women and some blood and vampires and stuff. It's definitely not a very good movie, and point in fact it's probably too pretentious to see its own forest full of trees. But it does have some kind of power, some kind of very strange intuition that makes it never too boring - and, if you're *into* a very abstract love/mind-game story of vampire femme fatales then here you go.In Vampiros Lesbos or, you guessed it, Lesbian Vampires, Jesus Franco tells a story that is about as loosely based on Stoker's mythology as one of the dresses is on any given girl in a sultry scene. A lawyer, Linda Westinghouse (and yes, Ewa Stromberg so looks like Linda Westinghouse doesn't she... actually kind of), is on a beach away from her man and meets a carefree woman, Soledad Miranda, who draws her into her world: she's the sole heiress of Count Dracula's fortune, and has also been indoctrinated into the "coven" of other vampires, and by a slip of the "wine" she brings Linda in as well. Meanwhile, another sexy blonde is going nuts in a mental hospital where a doctor tries his hardest to figure on how to kill the darn beasts.So, in truth, there is some relation to the original book, much in the same way a hippie living in a sewer eating rats and tripping 40 year old acid is in relation to Jerry Garcia. This is such a work of its time that it might have actually been close to perfection for maybe one day in 1970 or 1971, while the sun was setting and everything was perfect for Franco and his production team and actresses all tanned and sultry, and then it was gone forever and locked into a time capsule. It's loaded with "crazy" imagery, hallucinatory passages of subjective viewpoints from its female characters- perhaps all an allusion to lesbianism and it keeping women trapped who normally wouldn't be under different circumstances(?)- and even an annoying recurring symbol of a scorpion in a pool (yeah, we get it, scorpion, Peckinpah, move on!) The acting also isn't good at all by a couple of the supporting players, like that guy who plays Morpho with the same stone-faced look or even Dr. Seward.But at the same time, as a time capsule, it holds some pleasures of some minor guilty measure. While its violence isn't directed with much care, Franco is a perverted master of a certain kind of seduction between women on screen, and here he does get some scenes and moments that are creepy and striking and even erotic. I also liked Stromberg and Miranda in their roles, no matter how at-best two-dimensional they were. And the music is both divinely awesome and totally ludicrous with it being funky and smooth and 'hey, Tarantino ripped that off and it is that great', as well as being like a putrid re-rendering of that Pink Floyd song from Zabriskie Point's finale played repeatedly to poor effect. Vampiros Lesbos is one of a kind, so one of a kind that it would take someone with daring and possibly dementia to remake it. I both applaud Franco's versatility in attempting something as maniacal and coolly grind-house-ish, while at the same time realizing I could never in good conscience recommend it wholly. It's one of those.