Vampyros Lesbos

Vampyros Lesbos
West German theatrical release poster
Directed byFranco Manera
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyManuel Merino[1]
Edited byClarissa Ambach[1]
Music by
Production
companies
Release dates
  • 15 July 1971 (1971-07-15) (Germany)
  • 1973 (1973) (Spain)
Running time
89 minutes[1]
Countries
  • West Germany
  • Spain[1]
LanguageGerman[1]

Vampyros Lesbos (Spanish: Las Vampiras) is a 1971 erotic horror film written and directed by Jesús Franco (credited as Franco Manera). 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 album Vampyros Lesbos: Sexadelic Dance Party, which reached the top ten on the British Alternative charts.[3]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Browning & Picart 2010, p. 183.
  2. ^ "Credits: Las Vampiras". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  3. ^ Robinson, Eugene S. (24 July 2014). "Jess Franco's Wonderful, Woeful 'Vampyros Lesbos'". Ozy Media. Archived from the original on 23 December 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.


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