Vampyros Lesbos

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Taylor L There's no setting more accepting and supportive of a homoerotic relationship than Turkey, or so I'm told. Ok so imagine Dracula but it's on an exotic island and the main characters are both beautiful women who decide to swim naked together the first minute they meet. On the one hand, it is pretty low-budget and features a lot of softcore pornographic scenes that you're either going to think are unnecessarily long or brilliantly subversive; it's got the slow, dreamlike energy of a film that wants to be slightly delirious or simply has very little substance. Part of the reason it's difficult to interpret Vampyros Lesbos as some sort of subversion of traditional fears of feminine sexuality is because the film's director, Jesús Franco, is known almost exclusively for his exploitation and B-movies that have typically been considered not much more than pulp. The story is understandably weak, but it is also a pretty interesting take on the source material (at least as a premise), one that seems appropriate for the period in which is was released as the mainstream was embracing a new understanding of sexual desire. Now a cult film and probably the best known work from its prolific low-budget director, Vampyros Lesbos didn't really cast a spell on me in the way that it seems to have many other fans of exploitation films. It's got some experimental/amateurish cinematography but nice color and a particularly good psychedelic soundtrack, one that was groovy enough to take on a life of its own decades after the film was released. (2.5/5) Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 10/13/22 Full Review Audience Member Not that good, but whatever I wasn't expecting much. I did enjoy that it felt like a Time Capsule to the 70s weirdo Turkish life, but regardless, this is probably the only time I'll ever watch the movie. Meh concept, ok execution. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Somehow trashy and pretentious, all at the same time. A woman starts having strange, erotic dreams. Meanwhile she is resolving an inheritance issue on behalf of a Countess who inherited an estate from Count Dracula. Once she meets the Countess she starts to figure that this case and her dreams may be linked... Well, that's as much as I could figure out, plot-wise. It is all over the place and the plot is really quite token. The whole movie is a classic example of the 70s horror-exploitation genre: horror theme, basic, nonsensical plot, much gratuitous female nudity, all done in a faux arty sort of way. While this may have worked in the 70s, it is quite silly now. Quite tame now too. Not worth watching, for any reason. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Entertaining euro trash; high points being the trippy soundtrack and Soledad Miranda's intoxicating on screen presence. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review david f This stylish retro vampire lesbian horror film is a somewhat superior exploitation film owing to its good soundtrack and the mesmerizing acting of Soledad Miranda. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Tedious titillation improved by some gorgeous (and sometimes peculiarly decorated - even for the time) settings, occasionally interesting camerawork, and a really great score. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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