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Directed by | Jesús Franco |
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Cinematography | Manuel Merino[1] |
Edited by | Clarissa Ambach[1] |
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Running time | 89 minutes[1] |
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Language | German[1] |
Vampyros Lesbos (Spanish: Las Vampiras) is a 1971 erotic horror film co-written and directed by Jesús Franco. The film stars Ewa Strömberg as Linda Westinghouse, an American who works in a Turkish legal firm. Westinghouse has a series of erotic dreams that involve a mysterious vampire woman who seduces her before feeding on her blood. When she travels to an island to settle an inheritance, Linda recognizes a woman as the vampire from her dreams.
The film was shot in 1970 in Turkey. It was a popular success in theaters in Europe on its release and was the first film to have a more psychedelic score for a Franco film and the first to have a prominent lesbian theme. The film's score became popular in the mid-1990s when it was included on the compilation Vampyros Lesbos: Sexadelic Dance Party, an album that became a top ten hit on the British Alternative charts.[4]