Daughters of Darkness
 | Directed by Harry Kümel Starring: John Karlen, Delphine Seyrig, Danielle Ouimet, Andrea Rau, Paul Esser Starz / Anchor Bay, 1971, DVD Customer Rating: 36 reviews Recommend This product is currently not available and cannot be purchased. It means that we have no merchant offers for this product at the moment or it was discontinued by the manufacturer. |
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Art-movie goddess Delphine Seyrig (Last Year at Marienbad) slinks through the plush Eurotrash settings as the deathless Elizabeth Bathory, Vampire Countess, in Harry Kümel's minor Dutch classic of lesbian erotic-gothic. Blood mingles with water during the languorous shower scenes. Set at an upper-crust seaside resort, the 1971 film recounts Bathory's plot to replace her current consort (Andrea Rau) with a fresher specimen, an abused newlywed whose brutal young husband is an inconvenience waiting to be eliminated. Although both the bi-sex and the neck-biting violence are tame by today's standards, the film has a graceful, gliding sense of pace that gets under your skin; something unspeakably kinky always seems to be just about to happen. It never quite does, but the mood lingers. See it with someone you love — or would like to. — David Chute
Title: Daughters of Darkness
Sales Rank: 100684 in DVD
Actor: John Karlen, Delphine Seyrig, Danielle Ouimet, Andrea Rau, Paul Esser
Director: Harry Kümel
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay, 1998-08-25, Theatrical Release: 1971
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC, Acpect Ratio 1.66:1
Languages: English (Original Language)
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Running Time: 100 minutes
Package Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches, 0.18 pounds
- Genuinely Good Movie
- I struggled a bit with how many stars to give this. The quality, both technical and plot, were surprisingly good. The sound and music were super.
That said, and this will seem a bit coarse, I like my trash to be trashier than this. When I think "lesbian vampire," I don't think about it being implied. I think about it being a bit… More reviews
- Gotta Love It
- Okay, I am going to make this review short and sweet.
I never thought I would be a fan of movies like this
but after my curiosity drove me to watch Daughters of Darkness
I would not have it any other way. Delphine Seyrig is perfect
for the part of the Countess Elizabeth Bathory.
Her attitude is excellent and you… More reviews
- zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
- this film is really really slow and boring. i cant tell you what happened becasue i kept falling asleep. i wasnt feeling much horror or eroticism or anything just weird borish people and slow boring dialogue. the only darkness i was feeling was the back of my eyelids.… More reviews
- Big Hype
- I really wanted to like this film. I'm a big fan of Euro-trash, exploitation, low-budget horror, and "psychotronic" video in general, and all sources agreed that this was a "must see." So, I was understandably excited when this arrived -- I immediately popped it in the player, and sat wide-eyed, prepped for maximum enjoyment. Slowly (but not as slow as the plot of this… More reviews
- Stylish and Artistic
- "Daughters of Darkness" crackles with repressed sexual energy and barely suppressed libidinous desire in a way uncommon for an early 1970's horror film. Eschewing the somewhat vulgar and obvious treatment of the same story by Hammer, made as "Countess Dracula", Belgian director Harry Kumel opts for an overly symbolic aesthetic that self consciously emulates European art cinema. The… More reviews
