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1974
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Where to begin..... This movie came out in 1974 and had to be edited by the censors for release in most countries. The footage that had been cut has been put back in for this excellent dvd release from Anchor Bay. It was directed by Spanish director Joseph Larraz and filmed in England on Hammer Studios sets. The story goes like this: Two women are making love in a bed and someone walks in on them and shoots them. Next thing we know a man named Ted (Murray Brown) is driving through the countryside and picks up a woman (Marianne Morris) along the road. They go to her place which just happens to be a huge manor home in the middle of nowhere. They end up having sex and the next thing Ted knows it is next morning. Ted wakes up feeling weak and notices a nasty cut on his arm. The girl is nowhere to be found so he gets dressed and goes out to his car and and drives a little ways along the dirt road leading out of the estate. He runs across a couple who have picked this site to park their trailer and go camping. They help the man bandage his cut and after a little while he leaves. While driving away, Ted comes across the strange woman he picked up the night before and they go back to the estate. Her friend (Anulka Dziubinska) has picked up another man and before too long the two couples have made their way to the bedrooms. Ted makes love to the woman again but this time we see her sucking blood out of the cut on his arm. Her friend walks in and they go to the other bedroom where he lover is lying face up up on the bed covered in blood. They both start an orgiastic feast on the man that is a pretty long and violent scene. When they are done they drag him out of the room and down to the basement. The next morning Ted wakes up and and makes his way to the highway in his car and slows down for a car wreck along the road. The bloody body behind the wheel is the man he had seen at the house the prior evening! He drives back to the estate and starts wandering around and winds up accidentily locking himself in the cellar. The girls return, find and release him, and he goes back up to the bedroom. Meanwhile, while all of this has been going on, the woman on vacation in the trailer has become terribly interested in the goings on at the estate and keeps trying to get her husband interested. He feels it is none of their business and is content to go fishing and wishes his wife would just be happy with her paintings that she has been working on. That night, the girls at the estate bring home yet another man they picked up. They are drinking wines and he ends up getting them to take him to the wine cellar to sample more of their wines. Before too long he is very drunk and while in this state, the girls attack. This is another bloody and violent scene of the type Hammer always shied away from. The girls turn him into a bloody mess and feed revenously on his body. While the women are feeding on the man down in the cellar, Ted makes his way out of the house and wanders over to the trailer where the young couple are staying. The couple is horrified to see the condition that Ted is in so the husband goes out to the car to go get help. Before he can take off, the two women appear out of the dark night and attack him before he can drive away. After a minute his wife goes out to check on him and starts screaming when she sees his bloody body in the car. The two women then attack the wife and she is dragged, kicking and screaming, back to the cellar where they strip her naked (of course) and then feast on her. I have probably given away too much, but I won't give away the ending. I have read that some people thought the end was stupid and some people liked it. I happened to have liked it a lot. This is a pretty unique vampire movie and it is too bad it didn't do better at the box office, maybe then we would have had a sequel! The dvd is presented in widescreen 1:85.1 and except for a little graininess, looks quite good. There is a full lenght commentary by director Joseph Larraz and producer Brian Smedley-Aston. Larraz was 70 when the commentary was recorded a few years ago and he is at times quite funny. At one point he yells "Eh, I can see Anulka's pussy. That's not on my video copy!" There are also a couple trailers, film bios and a stills gallery. The movie is on the expensive side at around $25-28, but it is easily worth the money and I heartily recommend it for anyone who likes a gory, lesbian vampire movie. |
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7 Oct 02 (rev 23 Jan 03) |
