Uriah43 "John" (Brian Deacon) and "Harriet" (Sally Faulkner) are driving in the English countryside and happen to see a female hitchhiker on the side of the road. Hiding in the trees behind her is another woman. Harriet thinks this is strange and becomes highly suspicious when she sees these same two women in the forest near the camper where she and John are staying for a few days. Meanwhile, "Ted" (Murray Brown) is driving on a country road and picks up an attractive redhead by the name of "Fran" (Marianne Morris). They drive to her house in the country where he proceeds to have copious amounts of wine and sex. The next morning he wakes up alone and discovers a deep gash in his arm. Feeling extremely weak he manages to walk to the camper where John and Harriet are staying and receives some first aid for his wound. He then returns to the house to look for Fran. That evening she returns with a stunning blonde friend named "Miriam" (Anulka Dziubinska) and another man by the name of "Rupert" (Karl Lanchbury). Once again Ted and Fran drink lots of wine and spend the night in bed. And once again Ted wakes up alone and feeling very drained. At any rate, rather than detail the entire plot I will just say that this is an erotic vampire movie which has plenty of nudity and sex. Some of it quite lurid. There are also a couple of scenes which don't quite make sense. However, it's possible that having things shrouded in mystery works best anyway. Whatever the case may be this is a good film for the most part and I have rated it accordingly.

chaos-rampant If you're going to watch just one of these 'lesbian vampire' films, I recommend that you see Daughters of Darkness. But if you're going to see a few, you might stop here as well; just watch with one eye in Italian horror of the time - if the score doesn't clue you in - so you know what you're getting into.The novelty of these films, at least what was thought to be at the time, lies in swapping the formulaic traditions of the Hammer stage for feverish visions free to wander; often into sex. This is what we get here, a sensual dream about wanton desires, a bloodlust for sex and discovery. Like Jean Rollin used to do it, but with even less the touch of an adept surrealist.One strand of the plot is about beautiful women hitching rides from a countryside road to their secluded château in the woods nearby. The men all eagerly acquiesce to the seduction, to be part of the dream, because the promise of sex is implicit. Of course they are sooner or later drained by desire.The other part of the plot involves a couple who camp in the vicinity. The woman has seen the mysterious figures lurking in the woods, and again by nightfall, and so begins to imagine a story from these elements, a story involving the unspeakable horrors that from our end we get to see inside the house. But the man hasn't seen any of what she has. So he blithely goes fishing. She paints the ominous-looking house in an effort to represent, thus render finite, comprehensible.Of course by the end she ventures to investigate.

alistairc_2000 I watched this again as it is on the box of blood I bought a few years back. I bought the set mainly to get this movie and I am glad I did. I watched this once at Dead by dawn on the big screen about ten years back and thought it was beautifully shot but did not really like it. Then I watched it the next year at Harvey Fenton's ten years of Terror festival. I liked the nudity but could not really get into the movie.So I sat down to day after I had finished watching Die Screaming Marianne and Frightmare to get into this movie again. I am glad I did its superb. The location is fab and so British, the photography is stunning. Some of the early morning shots made me want to walk through those gardens.Sally Faulkner, what a babe, I was thinking looking at her. I just wish I could meet someone as pretty as her. She is a superb actress and really brings the movie together with the great busy body nature. Also she is so sexy through out. So much so I wish she had been one of the vampires if you know what I mean!The vampires themselves were great. Evil and beautiful all at the same time. It was wonderful to see the amount of gore in this movie. Also it is set in the period was titillation movies were taking the country by storm and it does this with avengance but still keeps the horror intact. Pity the makers of the rather plain virgin witch could not have followed suit.

ferbs54 1974's "Vampyres" is a British film directed by a Spaniard and is one of the best pictures in the lesbian vampire subgenre that I have ever seen. (Granted, I've always been a, um, sucker for this particular kind of film!) Here, sapphic lovers Fran (Marianne Morris) and Miriam (May '73 Playboy Playmate Anulka Dziubinska) are gunned down and murdered the first time we meet them. For some reason never explained, they return to the land of the living as atypical vampires, in that they first slice their victims with knives and glass slivers before chowing down. During the film, we see some typical days in their lives, posing as hitchhikers on lonely country roads and bringing men back to their crumbling manse for some sex play and bloodletting, whilst a young camping couple on their property observes them and grows increasingly suspicious. The film, all levity aside, strikes this viewer as a minor masterpiece of horror. It is genuinely erotic, disturbing, violent, often shocking, well acted down to the smallest parts, and quite merciless. The film is also deliberately paced, with not much in the way of story other than Fran and Miriam luring a series of men into their web, but director Jose Ramon Larraz has directed his picture for maximum atmosphere, and that creepy atmosphere is just delicious. Indeed, the sight of our two caped gals walking through a churchyard cemetery on a misty morning is a thing of great and morbid beauty. And these gals may be the most voracious vampires ever shown on film, sucking their drink of choice from whatever lacerated gash is most convenient; they are like sharks or some other wild beast in their frenzy; truly a horror to behold, even though they are fangless. Kudos also to Murray Brown, playing a dude who stays at the gals' house a few days too long (to the point of total anemia, I'd say!), as well as to James Clarke for his unmelodic, unobtrusive yet highly effective score. This DVD, by the way, from Blue Underground, looks just gorgeous, as do Marianne and Anulka 30+ years later in their very informative, modern-day interview extra. Wonder how they stayed so well preserved....