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A pair of women lure passers-by to their countryside mansion to feed on them to satisfy their need for blood.A pair of women lure passers-by to their countryside mansion to feed on them to satisfy their need for blood.A pair of women lure passers-by to their countryside mansion to feed on them to satisfy their need for blood.
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- TriviaThe house is Oakley Court, used for exteriors in several Hammer films, and for The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). It was later turned into a luxury hotel.
- GoofsIn the opening sequence, before the audience knows any character names, actor Murray Brown is seen murdering 2 naked women, actresses Marianne Morris and Anulka, in bed together. The real estate agent in the final sequence refers to this as having occurred 40 years before the present action of the film. but vampires cannot be killed by bullets, and Brown doesn't appear to have aged at all in that time.
- Alternate versionsThe original UK cinema version was heavily cut by around 3 minutes by the BBFC and the 1989 video was pre-cut but lost a further 26 secs with edits to a lesbian shower scene, sexual thrusting during the sex scene between Fran & John, the stabbing of Rupert, blood being licked from John's arm wound, closeups of Fran & Miriam's naked bloody bodies in the pre-credit scene, and the stripping and stabbing of Harriet in the cellar. The cuts were fully waived for the 2003 UK Anchor Bay DVD.
- ConnectionsEdited into FrightMare Theater: Vampyres (2018)
- SoundtracksVampyres (Main Title)
Written by James Kenelm Clarke (as James Clarke)
Performed by James Clarke Orchestra
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Okay...this film's not for everyone. It's filled with 70's-style Euro-trash lesbian and hetero sex, loads of gore, and was shot in three weeks on a rather, ahem...modest budget, by a director who could barely speak English. The script was probably 30 pages long. But there's something afoot here. It's not un-artful, it has flashes of real chills, and it's dripping in subtext, something today's Jason/Freddy/et.al. films sorely lack. The relationship between the male protagonist, who suspects the woman making love to him is a vampire, and the vampire herself, who chooses to slowly drain him of blood rather than kill him outright like her other victims, is bizarrely moving (and kinky) on a few levels. This film won't make you forget, say, the Christopher Lee Hammer films...but it will be hard to forget in and of itself and for its own hard-earned merits.
- boolamoola
- Jul 4, 2004
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