Vampyros Lesbos

Vampyros Lesbos
West German theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jesús Franco
Written by	Jaime Chávarri Jesús Franco[1]
Produced by	Artur Brauner Karl Heinz Mannchen[1]
Starring	Soledad Miranda Ewa Strömberg Andrea Montchal Dennis Price Paul Müller
Cinematography	Manuel Merino[1]
Edited by	Clarissa Ambach[1]
Music by	Jesús Franco Manfred Hübler Siegfried Schwab
Production companies	Fénix Films CCC Telecine Film[2]
Release dates	July 15, 1971 (1971-07-15) (Germany) 1973 (1973) (Spain) [3]
Running time	89 minutes[1]
Countries	West Germany Spain[1]
Language	German[1]

Vampyros Lesbos (Spanish: Las Vampiras) is a 1971 West German-Spanish erotic horror film directed and co-written 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]