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DVD Vampyres
"Naked girls and lots of blood, that's what Vampyres is about," says Joseph Larraz in the notes to the film. He rewrites the vampire myth to make his bloodsucking lovelies the restless ghosts of lesbian lovers murdered while making love in their shadowy castle. Reappearing nightly in the twilight forest, they lure men to their castle for blood feasts until the brunette vampire, Fran (Marianne Morris), falls for her latest victim (Murray Brown) and decides to keep him alive, a sex slave she slowly drains dry. "You're playing a dangerous game," warns blonde Miriam (Anulka), perhaps just a tad jealous. As the local cops watch a veritable wrecking yard of car crashes fill up the sleepy back roads (all with naked dead men behind the wheels), you have to wonder if anyone finds this a bit suspicious. It's a slim story filled with misty forests, candlelit castle interiors, and the above-mentioned blood and naked flesh. Larraz adds a few poetic flourishes--blood dripping down pale faces, clouds crawling past a castle--but, more important, gives the living dead girls a genuinely passionate relationship and a zest for nightlife. The DVD features commentary by Larraz and producer Brian Smedley-Ashton. --Sean Axmaker
I rate vampire/horror movies as great, bad and terrible. "Bad" horror films can be a lot of fun with their unintentional goofs and silly occurrences. Great movies are rarely the low budget Hammer-type films, and terrible is simply that...terrible.
Vampyres falls somewhere in between great and bad to my surprise. The chemistry of the actors was superb, the vampyres always seemed to have a good time and there were some great sex scenes. The violence was pitched just right, and there was some creativity such as eschewing the traditional neck-biting for sliced bloodletting, the vampyres enjoying sex, wine and even a cigarette.
Unfortunately, the "moldering" castle looked like new to me, and the camping couple nearby was a bit annoying. Who would go camping in a tiny trailer near the castle, then sit and polish the silver?
However, another refreshing detail of this film was the lovely nude actresses had genuine breasts! Not something you see much of anymore. Get it guys? [...]
I very much enjoyed this film, it is now one of my favorites. I'm not sure if I'll let my husband see it though, he might really like it!
Corny but actually good
I am a big fan of vampire films. I love the idea of living for eternity yet be plagued by an insatiable lust for blood. I recently had the opportunity to view the 1974 cult classic "Vampyres" starring Marianne Morris (Fran) and Anulka (Miriam). The film opens up with a bang when the two lovers Fran and Miriam are gunned down by an unseen stranger. Fran and Miriam ends up as blood-drinking spirits who are able to walk into the sun light and live, eat and drink, and enjoy other pleasures that mortal humans enjoys. The two women lure unsuspecting men back to their home for a night of sex and blood. There really isn't much of a storyline in this film other than Fran seduces and falls for a driver named Ted. Miriam warns Fran that keeping Ted around would lead to their downfall and that she needs to dispose of him as soon as possible. In the film, there is a couple John (Brian Deacon) and Harriet (Sally Faulkner) who are camping and has a brief encounter with the women from afar. They are kind of a distraction and almost useless in the film. They are just there which I found rather annoying. I could have lived without them in the film. After seeing the 14 minute interview with Marianne Morris and Anulka, I learned that the film was dubbed. In Marianne's case, the dub over was awful but I would not have guessed that Anulka's voice was dubbed over. The voiceover for Anulka was more natural while Marianne's was over the top and just atrocious. The writing was thin and the dialogue was corny and unintentionally funny nevertheless I actually enjoyed this cult classic. Even though the film was made in the `70s, the acting in this film was far more convincing than what I see in most modern day vampire films.
Too boring and predictable
The pacing in this movie is very slow. The movie takes 87 minutes to tell a story that could have taken ten minutes or less. All of the elements that one would have expected in a film like this (violence, suspense, sex, gothic horror, etc.) are on the cheap side (both in quality and quantity). The sets were only mediocre, consisting of a mixture of the gothic and 70's kitsch. The film's saving grace was the acting and dialog, which for the most part were not too bad. Not deserving of its cult status. If female vampire movies are your thing might I suggest the Hammer productions "The Vampire Lovers" and "Lust for a Vampire", which are both much better than Vampyres.
Polish-born actress Ingrid Pitt's erotically supercharged presence is the highlight of this double bill of vampire chills from Hammer Films. In Countess Dracula, Pitt stars as an aging noblewoman (inspired by the real-life Erzebeth Bathory) who discovers the secret to eternal youth in the veins of young virgins, while in The Vampire Lovers (based on J. Sheridan LeFanu's "Carmilla"), Pitt's sensuous bloodsucker seduces Hammer starlets Madeleine Smith and Kate O'Mara and incurs the vengeful wrath of Peter Cushing. Countess is the more sober of the two films, with Jeremy Paul's script and Peter Sadsy's direction playing out more like an Old Dark House mystery than Hammer horror, while Lovers' aims for comic-book thrills with plenty of nudity and violence (much of... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Peter Sasdy DVD Release Date: Released the 26 August 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Art-movie goddess Delphine Seyrig (Last Year at Marienbad) slinks through the plush Eurotrash settings as the deathless Elizabeth Bathory, Vampire Countess, in Harry Kümel's minor Dutch classic of lesbian erotic-gothic. Blood mingles with water during the languorous shower scenes. Set at an upper-crust seaside resort, the 1971 film recounts Bathory's plot to replace her current consort (Andrea Rau) with a fresher specimen, an abused newlywed whose brutal young husband is an inconvenience waiting to be eliminated. Although both the bi-sex and the neck-biting violence are tame by today's standards, the film has a graceful, gliding sense of pace that gets under your skin; something unspeakably kinky always seems to be just about to happen. It never quite does, but the mood... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Delphine Seyrig Director(s): Harry Kümel DVD Release Date: Released the 27 May 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Lina Romay, just dressed in high boots and a cape, slowly walks around in the foggy woods. The wonderful titlemusic by Daniel White is playing. Director Jess Franco is zooming in on her genitals, then he zooms out again. She is now walking towards the camera... and hitting her face in the cameralense. This is the so-called poetic intro of this weird film. Romay plays the vampire who must suck... ,well it's not blood exactly, to survive. The real hard-core scenes are censored from most versions of this film. So here we have a porn, with most of the explicit scenes cut, and left is the weird story, if we could call it a story. This is just a strange mess set on a hotel. A female reporter is going to interview Romay, who can't talk so she just have to nod or shake her head to answer. It ends... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Jesus Franco DVD Release Date: Released the 08 August 2000 Usually ships within 11 to 13 days
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