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Format: DVD
Nov 1999
Not Rated
Recording Mode: Mono
92 min.
Color
UPC: 654930300398 |
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Movie Description
Soledad Miranda stars as Countess Carody, a rich, hedonistic vampiress living in seclusion on an island off Turkey with her mute servant Morpho. At night she flies off to perform an erotic nightclub act in an Istanbul club. A tourist named Linda (Ewa Stroembnerg) is so transfixed by the performance she pursues the countess back to the island, where they get it on, and exchange blood. Meanwhile, Agra (Heidrun Kussin), the last victim/lover of Countess Carody is still recovering in Dr. Seward's (Dennis Price) sanitarium, and the doctor has plans to track the countess down and kill her. Surreal imagery and languid lesbian love scenes abound, captured in inspired zoom shots and enhanced with the famously psychedelic score by German composers Mannfred Hubler and Siegfried Schwab.
Director Jess Franco cemented his reputation as a genius of cinematic sex, drugs and death with this film, in which he also appears as a psychopathic killer. For aficionados of lesbian vampire movies, or just wild 1960s-1970s European cinema, this is an essential classic that begins to makes sense only with repeat viewings.
Film Notes
DVD Features:
Region 0
Keep Case
Widescreen
Tragically, actress Soledad Miranda was killed in a car accident shortly after this film's premiere.
Filmed in Istanbul, Turkey.
Franco directed under the pseudonym "Franco Manera."
This film is notorious for having several different names, running times, versions, language tracks, and subtitles.
Industry Reviews
"...Jess Franco's 1970 erotic horror has become a cult landmark in Eurotrash entertainment....This film still exerts a certain fascination..."
Total Film - Essi Berelian (03/01/2001)
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