Vampyres

Plot synopsis:
It is getting dark. John [Brian Deacon] and Harriet [Ally Faulkner] have not yet found a place to park their camper. They pass two mysterious women in the road and pull up beside a deserted castle where they intend to pass the night. For days they camp there, not knowing that during the days the two women, Fran [Marianne Morris] and Miriam [Anulka], lie asleep in the cemetery while at night they pick up men and take him to their castle. There, they feed them wine, have passionate sex, and then stab them to death while drinking their blood. The only exception is Ted [Murray Brown], who manages to survive for three nights in a row. One evening Ted escapes. He runs to the camper to enlist John and Harriet's help. When John goes to start the car, Fran and Miriam get him. When Harriet goes to check on John, the girls get her. Ted apparently gets away.

Tags: pornographic, gothic, murder, violence, cult, sadist

Review:
This film is pretty much alone in the Lesbian Vampire genre in that it has real zeal - the girls really seem to get into their roles and the result is the most erotic non-porn feature I've ever seen.
Jose Ramon Larraz's "Vampyres" is easily one of the best erotic horror movies ever made.This is surely a cult classic and should be treated with respect.A pair of sexy bisexual vampires played by Marianne Morris and Anulka live in an abandoned castle.Both stunning beauties lure passing motorists to their lair."Vampyres" is a very remarkable horror film that perfectly mixes creepy atmosphere with delicious sleaze.There is also a nice amount of blood and gore,so I was pleased.The acting is great and the sex scenes are truly arousing.There is nothing overtly supernatural about the 'vampyres' for example they lack fangs and go about freely in daylight.So if you are a fan of erotic horror you can't miss this masterpiece.10 out of 10..
VAMPYRES Aspect ratio: 1.85:1Sound format: MonoA motorist (Murray Brown) is lured to an isolated country house inhabited by two beautiful young women (Marianne Morris and Anulka) and becomes enmeshed in their free-spirited sexual lifestyle, but his hosts turn out to be vampires with a frenzied lust for human blood...Taking its cue from the lesbian vampire cycle initiated by maverick director Jean Rollin in France, and consolidated by the success of Hammer's "Carmilla" series in the UK, Jose Ramon Larraz' daring shocker VAMPYRES pushed the concept of Adult Horror much further than British censors were prepared to tolerate in 1974, and his film was cut by almost three minutes on its original British release.
Daubeney') uses these commercial elements as mere backdrop to a languid meditation on life, death and the impulses - sexual and otherwise - which affirm the human condition.Shot on location at a picturesque country house during the Autumn of 1973, Harry Waxman's haunting cinematography conjures an atmosphere of grim foreboding, in which the desolate countryside - bleak and beautiful in equal measure - seems to foreshadow a whirlwind of impending horror (Larraz pulled a similar trick earlier the same year with SYMPTOMS, a low-key thriller which erupts into a frenzy of violence during the final reel).
However, despite its pretensions, VAMPYRES' wafer-thin plot and rough-hewn production values will divide audiences from the outset, and while the two female protagonists are as charismatic and appealing as could be wished, the male lead (Brown, past his prime at the time of filming) is woefully miscast in a role that should have gone to some beautiful twentysomething stud.
If you like 1970s erotic vampire movies then you will LOVE Jose Larraz's 'Vampyres'!
The gorgeous Marianne Morris (brunette) and Anulka (blonde) play a couple of very hot vampires who between seducing men and draining their blood, share a passionate relationship.
In 1974 director José Ramón Larraz released this blood-soaked erotic film called Vampyres , which told the story of a lesbian vampire couple who would waylay and kidnap various passers-by, both male and female, to take them captive at their luxurious rural manor .
This horror as well as semi-exploitation movie deals with a lesbian vampire couple (Marianne Morris , Anulka) abducts motorists and drivers , (Murray Brown , Brian Deacon , Michael Byrne) , to hold them at their large mansion in the English countryside in order to kill and feed on them to satisfy their insatiable thirst for chew their blood .
A couple that has not yet found a place to park their camper attempts to find out the rare events leading to an old mansion in bloody results which end in death .This frightening movie deliberately told contains thrills , chills , suspense , sleazy images and lots of violence and gore , including obnoxious killings .
Jose Ramon Larraz master of arty gore and soft-core , brings this ghastly and stylish story plagued with eerie intrigue , nudism and depraved gore murders executed in a luxury mansion ; in fact , the 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 resort hotel .
His most successful film is this ¨Vampyres¨ about bloodsuckers who get victims to pull over hitchhiking , played by Playboy young models with sexy bodies , blending arty house , horror and erotic situations .¨Vampyres¨ rating : Acceptable and passable terror movie .
The lesbian vampires are the sexy and gorgeous Anulka Dziubinska, who is the Playboy´s Playmate of the Month in May of 1973, and Marianne Morris, and they spend great part of the film naked.
The are quite a few things that don't make an awful lot of sense and there are some moments that the movie just drags on for far too long, such as all the erotic scene's, which only all felt totally pointless.I am also ashamed to admit that I actually rather liked the unusual musical score by James Kenelm Clarke.All in all it is a movie that is worth seeing but granted that you have to be a fan of the genre to be able to appreciate this movie.
Though filmed in England, high-spirited Spanish director Jose Ramon Larraz works hard not to bring a coy, prurient perspective to this joyous celebration of steamy eroticism, lesbianism and vampirism.
If he had failed (he doesn't), we would have been saddled with a sexless, potentially arousing work such as Jimmy Sangster's LUST FOR A VAMPIRE, a non-classic that wasted the carnal talents of the smoldering Yutte Stensgaard.Featuring some of the most delicious scenes of rampant, sexually-charged blood drinking ever, VAMPYRES (not to be confused with John Carpenter's raw but uneven vampire entry) is a minor classic hampered only by a half-baked, meandering script and static dialog.Negatives aside, it still manages to be poetic, sensual, dream-like and gloriously subversive.
Afterall, it is a film of genuine atmosphere.The vampire leads, exuberantly played by the beautiful Marianne Morris and Anulka Dziubinska, are extraordinary, a horror fan's wet dream made flesh.
Images of them haunting country roads in search of victims or dashing through a cemetery in the late afternoon tattoo themselves into your psyche.One sequence, where they brutally and bloodily ravage a "lucky" victim, is almost pornographic in its single-minded intensity and intention.Sometimes titled VAMPYRES: DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS, it has little in common with Harry Kumel's superb telling of the Elizabeth Bathory story and nothing in common with Hong Kong's gleefully vile sleazefest of the same name.Harry Waxman's stylish cinematography is a major asset, as is James Clark's subtle score.Stronger than any Hammer film.Recommended highly for exotic tastes..
It eschews traditional bloodsucker conventions in favor of atmosphere and eroticism, and the result, though English in origin, seems more like one of the Continental horror films being made at the same time--probably thanks to Spanish director Jose Larraz.Marianne Morris and Anulka are gorgeous and sadly sympathetic as the two undead lovers.
Now, after the title, we get the idea that it's years later, and for whatever reason, the hot ladies, Fran and Miriam, are now hot vampyres, hot vampyres who hitch rides on the side of the country road, only to lure their victims back to their lair, in the castle, to be loved on, and of course, to be drained of all blood.
Director Jose' Ramon Larraz brings a stylish and effective aura of Gothic horror to it, somewhat akin to that found in the Hammer films (the fact that it was actually partly shot at a stand-by set for that studio's vampire films may have contributed to this).
Due to its plot being rather thin, the film's editing style could not perhaps forego a certain sluggishness to the proceedings; yet, despite its occasional repetitiveness (like the lengthy passages where Murray Brown is seen inspecting the castle grounds  scenes which reminded me a lot of CASTLE OF BLOOD [1964]), I never found it to be boring as this was often countered by the number of effective shock cuts interspersed throughout.The two leading ladies  Marianne Morris and Anulka  were very well-cast in my opinion, proving themselves surprisingly compelling screen presences, and this was aided a great deal by their highly contrasting personalities.
Still, while it is perfectly understandable that Miss Morris had more screen time than Miss Dziubinska given her dominant personality and her ongoing relationship with Murray Brown, I must say that I preferred Anulka (an opinion with which, I'm happy to say, even director Larraz concurs) and I would have liked her to be in a couple more scenes.
However, I have yet to check out the lengthy essay 'VAMPYRES: A Tribute to the Ultimate in Erotic Horror Cinema' accessible only via DVD-ROM which, in turn, promises to be quite interesting.The film compares favorably with Blue Underground's other 'lesbian vampires' release  Harry Kumel's DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS (1971)  though it does not have that film's thematic density, sophisticated artistry or its lingering dramatic power, but then I didn't expect it to!
But, as those familiar with grindhouse movies will be fully aware, that doesn't mean it's particularly good.In an old mansion isolated in the woods, lesbian vampire couple Fran (Marianne Morris) and Miriam (Anulka Dziubinska) stalk the surrounding area in search of men to prey upon.
Harriet notices strange behaviour from the vampire couple and witnesses the physical deterioration of Ted (Murray Brown), a young man taken in by Fran.Shot at Oakley Court, location of many a Hammer horror and Dr. Frank N.
Vampyres is a film about two vampire women luring men into their house, killing them and drinking their blood.
For those looking for a horror movie with nice atmosphere, blood and sex - Vampyres has it.
But if they all turned out like this, that is not a bad thing.The movie basically consists of the two lovely vampires picking up "johns" along a country road, taking them home to their castle, having crazy sex with them, and then eating them (except the first victim, who they keep around for no particular reason).
The references to other movies and filmmakers isn't place in here because the year of this film, in 1974, nobody had made anything similar; this genuine and naïve masterpiece of the horror recent history of the macabre is in essence a tragical love story, a male fantasy as "The phantom of the Paradise", in the same year  -by Brian De Palma-  did it too.We have to recognise the abilities in Joseph Larraz's movies to create a unique and very personal vision of the spiral of terror that never appeared before: "Vampyres" is the part of a trilogy that emerges with "Scream...and die!
"Vampyres" features a lot of sexual footage and nudity, naturally, but the difference with similar contemporary movies (mainly from the hands of the two aforementioned directors) is that this film also has an intriguing plot, a tense Gothic atmosphere, amiable characters, professional cast & crew members and a stunningly beautiful photography.
Vampyres is one of the movies from the early '70s sex-horror female vampire sub-genre.
Two female vampires lure unsuspecting men back to their remote mansion, where the unfortunate chaps meet with a bloody climax (no pun intended).While the dialogue and acting is, at times, not too great the movie does conjure up some effective sequences.
After so many Vampires movies aimed for men, this new kind has another target to reachs under lesbianism aproaching, for a new generation of vast range of the sexual orientation, the news signs of the times, exploitation more endless sexual appealing than vampirism,this picture is some sort of soft porn production, not bad but a lack of a specific plot drift to nowhere, the vampires don't bit, they are a blood sucked, implying a subjetive assessment, the sexy's scenes is quite hot for a horror movie, so to speak that it fit in this new genre, a soft porn horror!!Resume:First watch: 2019 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 6.25.
Factory, they pick out some real winners.In 2019, Arrow Video took the film and added even more to it than Blue, packaging it with other Larraz-directed works such as "Whirlpool." Perhaps the man will finally get his due; as Kim Newman has said, both the horror folks and "sex movie" folks have tried to disown him..
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.
The nudity and sex are as omnipresent (and essential) as the eeriness and haunting atmosphere, which makes "Vampyres" a mesmerizing gem of 70s erotic Horror.The film is about a couple of female vampires, Fran (Marianne Morris) and Mirjam (Anulka), who hitchhike in order to satisfy both their sexual desires and their thirst for blood...
Sultry brunette Marianne Morris and sexy blonde Anulka Dziubinska play Fran and Miriam, hitch-hiking vampiresses who lure motorists to their remote country house where they seduce them and then drain them of blood.Opening with a lesbian sex scene in which the two naked stars are shot dead mid-fumble, the film starts as it means to go on, mixing sex and death to great effect.
Both babes indulge in sexy romps at regular intervals, either with each other or with the men that they cadge a lift from.The story is quite mundane, and revolves around one of the bloodsucker's victims (who is inexplicably kept alive so that Fran can shag him and drink his blood) and a couple who have parked their caravan in the grounds of the house, and who eventually come under attack from the undead lesbian duo.
But who cares, when there is so much T&A on display and quite a few steamy scenes of carnal lust.The violence is limited to a few frenzied scenes in which the vampires sate their blood-lust; they are brief but bloody, and the last couple of killings are particularly unsettling.Vampyres is definitely one of the better 70s lesbian vampire movies, and fans of the genre should find enough to enjoy to warrant giving this one a go.N.B. The Blue Underground DVD release has a great interview with the actresses who played the movie's two undead loveliesand they still look pretty good 30+ years after the film was made!.
The two female vampires don't have fangs, don't turn into bats, don't seem to have any major supernatural powers, and don't turn to dust in the sunlight.Instead, these two women seem to mainly be a couple of women who don't like sunlight and like to bring hitchhikers home to their manor house for a little wine a blood letting.There are some gruesome sequences and some moments of absolute horror, but overall the film is more of a mood piece.
To the pantheon of erotic 1970s horror flicks we can add "Vampyres", about hot lesbian vampires Fran (Marianne Morris) and Miriam (Anulka Dziubinska) who thumb rides from unsuspecting travelers, take the travelers to the English estate where they dwell, and go into full orgy mode.
The film isn't a world away from Jean Rollin's efforts, but its shot with far more conviction, and despite the thin plot and equally thin characters, with Vampyres it does actually feel you're watching a movie as opposed to simply witnessing a load of random events.
They need these people to feed from in order to satisfy their thirst for blood; but, naturally, there's also room for a lot of bloody murders and over the top, yet erotic, sex scenes.The title is made inspiring by the alternative spelling of the word 'vampires', and that really fits the film as despite the fact that their are others like it; Vampyres seems to occupy a niche of it's own.
The woman in the caravan (Sally Faulkner) notices the two 'vampyres' running around outside, heading to the road at strange hours of the morning, and she mentions it to her husband who is oblivious to the whole thing and doesn't think it's a big deal.In the meantime the vampire ladies hitchhike in order to lure businessmen back to the castle so they can drink their blood.
Of course the couple wind up getting killed in the end for harboring a man the vampyres have held in captivity and drank most of his blood.Nice atmospherics, spooky fall English countryside, this has to be one of the most erotic (non X-rated) vampire moves ever made.
When I rented this movie, the synopsis on the back of the DVD read: In this controversial cult classic (also known as Daughters of Dracula), two beautiful bisexual women -- played by Marianne Morris and Anulka -- roam the English countryside, luring unsuspecting men to their estate for orgies of sex and blood.
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 something like this: Two women are making love in a bed and someone walks in on them and shoots them.
A 1970's British film about two bisexual vampires (Marianne Morris and Anulka Dziubinska) who live in old mansion preying victims...
In that aspect, the movie delivers expectations because the sex scenes are steamy and very well done.Marianne Morris and Anulka Dziubinska are impressive beauties.
The castle is the very definition of secluded, and an ideal place for a vampire couple's lair..particularly when they look as gorgeous as Fran(Marianne Morris) and Miriam(Anulka Dziubinska).
An attractive young lesbian couple are gunned down in the mansion where they live and, for some reason, then become vampiric creatures who seduce passers-by from the nearby road.Husky, busty Marianne Morris and blond Anulka Dziubinska (billed as Anulka) as Fran and Miriam seem very at ease with the plentiful nude/sex scenes – even though the DVD extras refute this.
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.