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8 November 2008 4:26 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Ever since Gloria Holden first made ghoulish goo-goo eyes at her girl victims in 1936's Dracula's Daughter, horror films have been fascinated by the lesbian vampire. Blame J. Sheridan LeFanu, the French writer whose risqué short story Carmilla broke the boundaries of homo-erotic bloodsucking and whose taboo allure helped eventually launch this evolving spate of increasingly explicit dark fantasy pictures, many of which reared their horny heads in the considerably more liberal 1970's. UK horror studio Hammer were the first ones to really make their muff munching mark with Roy Ward Baker's LeFanu adaptation The Vampire Lovers and other films, like Jose Laraz's almost hardcore 1974 epic Vampyres and Vincente Aranda's The Blood Spattered Bride (whose title I happily cribbed for this tome) continued to push the envelope, mixing fangwork with female nudity to grand effect.

But there's one incredible film that always gets lumped in with those lower brow sex-soaked exploitation pictures. »

1 article from 2008