Laura S
I loved this! Pretty good and crazy!
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
03/17/25
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Wayne K
The list of films you should never watch with your parents is very long, and Vampyres definitely has a place on it. Released in the mid 70s, it’s a film with much more graphical sexual and violent content than you would imagine, and it would of course be pilloried at the time for this fact. With the easy availability of adult content in the modern world, repeated sex scenes in a film can become dull, monotonous and even unnecessary, but the film is smart enough to keep them relatively short. It’s a film that you could look at as ahead of its time in regards to sexual politics, as the females are the ones in charge, and the men are largely relegated to the role of playthings, easily seduced and manipulated. It has an old school horror vibe, with a grand estate house, creepy forests and dark, dank basements. Elements of it, such as the dialogue and some of the acting, feels very soap opera-ish, and parts of it are just confusing. Why do John and Harriet decide to camp outside an estate house rather than at a campsite for example, and why doesn’t Ted escape the house when he has a chance? The film drags at times, and often skirts the line between creating a haunting atmosphere and just being slow for the sake of it. I can’t say I loved it, or would recommend it to friends, but it’s always fascinating to take a look at a film that you would never normally watch, and see how it reflects the world in which it was made.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
03/12/25
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I loved this movie! Very spooky! Very hot!
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/14/25
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Abro A
Great little Vampire horror movie! Highly enjoyed it!
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
02/14/25
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Vampyers is an creepy erotic bisexual queer horror film I've ever seen, is really bloody campy shocking atmosphere vampire film and I really love it.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
09/28/22
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José Ramón Larraz went to school for philosophy, became a comic book writer and then made some wild movies, like Whirlpool, which Roger Ebert negatively reviewed — I mean, it sounds great to me — by saying that it was genuinely sickening film. It has to do with various varieties of sex, yes, but its main appeal seems to be its violence… The violence is not, however, the cathartic sort to be found in The Wild Bunch or the comic strip spaghetti Westerns. It's a particularly grisly sort of violence, photographed for its own sake and deliberately relishing in its ugliness. It made me awfully uneasy." He also directed the Spanish Western Watch Out Gringo! Sabata Will Return, The House That Vanished (which had so many titles, including Scream…And Die! and Please! Don't Go in the Bedroom, as well as a campaign that made it look like Last House on the Left), Symptoms, Stigma, Black Candles (AKA Sex Rites of the Devil) and three American co-productions before the end of his career, the underrated Edge of the Axe, Rest in Pieces and Deadly Manor.
The film starts with its leads, Fran (Marianne Morris) and Miriam (Anulka Dziubinska, billed here as Anulka; a former Page 3 girl who was the Playboy Playmate of the Month for May 1973, she was once married to Soupy Sales' son Tony, who was in Tin Machine with David Bowie, Reeves Gabriels and his brother Hunt Sales) in bed together, which was probably quite shocking in 1974, but perhaps even more shocking is when they're machine gunned before the credits.
They're brought back as vampires that roam the British countryside and take in wayward male motorists, draining them of more than blood before disposing of these conquests. They have a different form of vampirism than you may have seen before, making grisly arm wounds that they continually feed from, closer to cannibals than bloodsuckers.
Beyond the gorgeous leads, the scenery is just as inviting, as this was not around Oakley Court, which Hammer used for The Man in Black, The Lady Craved Excitement, The Brides of Dracula, The Reptile and The Plague of the Zombies. William Castle shot The Old Dark House there and you'll also see it in films like Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny, and Girly; And Now the Screaming Starts! and perhaps most famously, it was the home of Dr. Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. While it had no heat or running water when that movie was filmed, it's now a luxury hotel.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/06/23
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