Blood of the Tribades

See it. See it soon. A wonderful piece of connoisseur-trash-art-core. It is hard to capture the feeling of an era and a specific style of filmmaking, but the team behind "Blood of the Tribades" manages to re-create and expand the genre of 1970s lesbian vampire film. Hooray! Blood! Sex! History! Gender theory!

This is no doubt, a very weird movie that pays homage to Rollin, Franco, Vadim, and other Euro outcast cinema. I love how it mixes a little of the melodrama of Hammer in as well. The story without spoilers...not that it matters a whole lot for a movie like this is that these women vampires have forgotten everything and they are being hunted by men for plaguing them, except they aren't actually doing it. The leader of the men is a demagogue using religion and political pressure to blame everyone he can. Sound familiar? This movie is basically like Hitler fights the vampires and they rise up against him. Except it is not Hitler, it's Grando. And wow is Seth Chatfield's over- the-top performance as Hitler, I mean Grando, really fun and solid! The two lead women are exceptional as well. Also, so many penises. 9/10 because I wanted it to be longer. Not the penises. The movie.

Very slow, rather boring sentence movie that tries to be artistic but fails miserably.

Some reviews here say this is a throwback to Hammer films. It's not. It sucks and not like a vampire.

The acting is horrible. Like below summer stock quality. More like middle school. Also the vampire story rips apart vampire lore with vampires running around in bright sunrise. Really? When did that happen?

The haunting string music is OK, but it doesn't help to mitigate how badly made this movie is. It drones on and on, boring the heck out of the viewer.

I had a hard time getting beyond the poor direction, the dumb story-line and the abysmal acting. But being that loofah in the beginning would be fun.

Seemingly a homage to older vampire historical period piece films. As a stand-alone film there isn't much interest to be had. It is quite slow moving and relatively confusing at times. Featuring many bland characters that seemingly come into the screen with nothing telling.

The visuals are solid and there is nice shots of the scenery. Overall the story just isn't as interesting as expected and is quite boring majority of time.

Directed by Sophia Cacciola, whom directed other art house horror film Ten (2014). There are vast differences here with that film. With Ten being more intriguing. Featuring more skin show especially a rather lengthy bloody scene towards the end.

Male vamps turn on female vamps. It's certainly quite cheap looking, but there's a real 70s/Rollin vibe to it. Unfortunately, it's got none of the style or craziness of Rollin and is really badly acted. Tits and social commentary do not a good film make - especially when it's all just a bit crap.