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Calandrino said:
"Boobs!"

*roll credits*
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Speaking of which, this is an excellent time to discuss lesbian vampire movies. "How many are there?" you might ask? Far more than you'd think.

Firstly, there's Jess Franco's Vampyros Lesbos. Arguably his masterpiece but that's seen as a sort of "pleb" opinion by Francophiles who have seen the nearly 200 films Jess Franco has directed (and not all of them were porn, more like 20-30 of them could be considered porn).


This is the Dracula story but with lesbians. The soundtrack is probably more famous but the way to approach this -along with the majority of Jess Franco efforts- is to approach it like a mood piece. The story doesn't matter. Turn off the brain and just absorb. If nothing else then the soundtrack is legendary.

On the sleazier side of the Franco-spectrum you have Female Vampire:


I don't like this one but it does feature death by blowjob.

Vampyres (1974);


This is more of what you would expect: two vampire bitches in a castle luring men and killing them during their threesomes. Highly recommended.

The Blood Spattered Bride:


Another Tarantino favorite about a newly wedded wife having 2nd thoughts and meets the countess of her dreams. Very good and features a legendary double bill trailer (directed by Bob Clark, same guy behind Porky's, A Christmas Story and Black Christmas) that needs to be seen:


Then I could just spam the rest of this post with the filmography of Jean Rollin. French dude who loved lesbian vampire movies and made a dozen of them.

I've already sung the praise of Fascination but that is my favorite of his vamp films.


Lips of Blood is another good one:


Requiem for a Vampire is maybe the only vamp flick that has death by nipples.


Then there's The Rape of the Vampire, The Nude Vampire, and Shivers of the Vampire.

His most famous is probably Living Dead Girl because of the Rob Zombie song:


Even though the chick isn't a vampire but more of a zombie but there's a lot of vampire elements and the movie kicks fucking ass and is Rollin's most fast-paced film and goes right away for the sex and gore.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Quoting a BD article because I don't want to give them clicks.


This is fucking WILD that a movie like The Substance is even nominated for Golden Globes. And the Golden Globe nom is important because it's usually an indication of an upcoming Oscar nomination.
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Update: Demi Moore won the Golden Globe for this OTT genre film. Could nature be healing?
 
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BrunoMattei said:
Speaking of which, this is an excellent time to discuss lesbian vampire movies. "How many are there?" you might ask? Far more than you'd think.
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What are some movies with heterosexual female vampires? Even Dracula's Daughter is kinda sus

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Vampirella said:
It all started with the vampire story Carmilla, and that came out 25 years before Dracula. Yes, Lesbian Vampires are older then Dracula.
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So that's where Carmilla comes from. I had no idea. Thanks for sharing! :-)

Carmilla of the Castlevania-series is sourced from inspiration sprung from this earliest of work, then:

Carmilla from the original Castlevania series.
Carmilla from the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow series (I enjoy both the first and the second main instalments of the Lords of Shadow series — I have yet to play Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate.)
Carmilla from the Netflix-animated series (seeing as she's lesbian in this series, it seemingly plays into her original nature as per the work of Sheridan Le Fanu, but regardless, I can't help but to smell the nauseating stench of Current Year in this iteration of the character.)

By looking into the Wikipedia-section of "Sources" for the article of Carmilla, one notices even the inspiration for the character of Carmilla stemming from Sabine Baring-Gould's account of Elizabeth Báthory.

It seems that Dracula surpassed all of these figures in notoriety, though.
 
Felis Meanis said:
So that's where Carmilla comes from. I had no idea. Thanks for sharing! :-)

Carmilla of the Castlevania-series is sourced from inspiration sprung from this earliest of work, then:

Carmilla from the original Castlevania series.
Carmilla from the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow series (I enjoy both the first and the second main instalments of the Lords of Shadow series — I have yet to play Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate.)
Carmilla from the Netflix-animated series (seeing as she's lesbian in this series, it seemingly plays into her original nature as per the work of Sheridan Le Fanu, but regardless, I can't help but to smell the nauseating stench of Current Year in this iteration of the character.)

By looking into the Wikipedia-section of "Sources" for the article of Carmilla, one notices even the inspiration for the character of Carmilla stemming from Sabine Baring-Gould's account of Elizabeth Báthory.

It seems that Dracula surpassed all of these figures in notoriety, though.
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Well, firstly, if you only know Carmilla from Castlevania, you should be checking out some of the lesbian vampire cinema listed above. And Vampyr. And read the story, naturally.

Also, Varney the Vampire goes back further than even Carmilla and they reused that name for Netflix Castlevania (and maybe a video game but I thought not).

I think the name Alucard for Dracula's son originally comes from Universal's Son of Dracula.
 
The novel Lifeforce is based on, The Space Vampires by Colin Wilson is an interesting read, incorporating cosmic horror and the power of sexual attraction. In the future, around 2100, a massive derelict spacecraft is discovered, and exploration reveals an interior filled with what seem to be some sort of stasis chambers. Most of these chambers are filled with bizarre squid-like alien forms, but several have what appear to be humans. Captain Carlsen, commander of the craft that made this discovery is ordered to bring back three of these humanoids to Earth, and they manage to extract them from their cocoons, seemingly somewhere between life and death. Turns out the aliens, who call themselves the Ubbo-Sathla (a blatant Clark Ashton Smith reference) feed on life force and Earth is a big pig trough for them. Soon they have escaped into the world and vanished seemingly without a trace. Captain Carlsen, working together with Dr. Hans Fallada, a scientist researching the concept of energy vampirism, attempts to track down these escapees, who can jump from host to host in their quest for more life energy. However, the Prime Minister of the UK has ordered the strange craft, with its hundreds of stasis chambers be brought closer to Earth orbit so it can be studied more easily...
 
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