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International shade idol Delphine Seyrig (of LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD fame) stars as Elizabeth Bathory, an time-honoured Countess with a pleasing immature 'companion' (Goth enchantress Andrea Rau) and a mythological bequest of perversion. But when a dual women charm a uneasy newlywed integrate (French beauty Danielle Ouimet and John Karlen of DARK SHADOWS and CAGNEY & LACEY), they unleash a frenzy of remarkable assault and outrageous enterprise that repelled both art residence audiences and grindhouse crowds worldwide.
Co-written and destined by Harry Kumel, DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS stays one of a many masterfully hypnotizing adult fear films ever made. Blue Underground is unapproachable to benefaction a Director's Cut of this classical psychosexual shocker newly remastered in High Definition and packaged with Extras, including code new interviews with Harry Kumel, Danielle Ouimet, and Co-Writer/Co-Producer Pierre Drouot. Also enclosed is a Bonus Disc featuring THE BLOOD SPATTERED BRIDE, a vivid shocker of reincarnation, lesbianism and aroused murder from Writer/Director Vicente Aranda (LOVERS).
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #49395 in DVD
- Brand: WEA DES Moines Video
- Released on: 2006-10-31
- Rating: Unrated
- Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
- Number of discs: 2
- Formats: Color, DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .34 pounds
- Running time: 87 minutes
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- International shade idol Delphine Seyrig (of LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD fame) stars as Elizabeth Bathory, an time-honoured Countess with a pleasing immature messenger (Goth enchantress Andrea Rau) and a mythological bequest of perversion. But when a dual women charm a uneasy newlywed integrate (French beauty Danielle Ouimet and John Karlen of DARK SHADOWS and CAGNEY & LACEY), they unleash a frenzy of remarkable violenc
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Art-movie enchantress Delphine Seyrig (
Last Year during Marienbad) slinks by a plush Eurotrash settings as a eternal Elizabeth Bathory, Vampire Countess, in Harry Kümel's teenager Dutch classical of lesbian erotic-gothic. Blood mingles with H2O during a languorous showering scenes. Set during an upper-crust strand resort, a 1971 film recounts Bathory's tract to reinstate her stream join (Andrea Rau) with a fresher specimen, an abused newlywed whose heartless immature father is an nuisance watchful to be eliminated. Although both a bi-sex and a neck-biting assault are tame by today's standards, a film has a graceful, gliding clarity of gait that gets underneath your skin; something unspeakably eccentric always seems to be only about to happen. It never utterly does, though a mood lingers. See it with someone we love--or would like to.
--David Chute Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"A STYLISH ADULT VAMPIRE MOVIE!"
The New York Times
"Far And Away The Most Artistic Vampire Shocker In 10 Years!"
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57 of 59 people found a following examination helpful.
Brilliant vampire flick
By Jeffrey Leach
Since I've been examination a ton of Eurohorror classics lately, now is as good as a time as any to contend a few difference about "Daughters of Darkness." we finished a vouch some time ago to omit vampire films as a ubiquitous rule. It's not that we strongly dislike all vampire films, mind you, yet we usually feel like a genre has been finished to genocide over a years. How many versions of Dracula can we watch before your eyes start rolling over a predictability of it all? The plots are all radically a same, right? You've got a requisite virgin, a hastily immature lad, a wizened vampire hunter, and good aged Drac himself ambling around in a dim harassing a others. A garland of people tumble chase to a vampire, a hunter teams adult with a immature masculine in an bid to save a immature girl, and a seductiveness by a aged ticker flattering many wraps a whole thing up. Well, a bit of knowledge reveals utterly a few films that play around with this attempted and loyal formula. One approach to accomplish something different, if these European flicks are any indication, is to punch adult a record with a inexhaustible assisting of unclothed flesh. There's zero like a garland of gals trooping around in divulgence outfits, or no outfits during all, to perk adult a dull aged Stoker legend. And if we can make a conduct vampire a woman, that positively can't harm either. Welcome to "Daughters of Darkness."
Something uncanny and smashing is going on in this movie, yet we have to wait awhile to see it. The design starts out by display us dual creatively married lovebirds, Valerie (Danielle Ouimet) and Stefan (John Karlen), streamer to a European seashore on a train. Ostensibly, a dual married in tip and are now going to conduct over to England to accommodate Stefan's determined mother. Valerie worries possibly a lady (ha!) will accept her given Stefan creates it extravagantly transparent that his dear mom is utterly picky about her son's girlfriends. Stefan assures Valerie all will go well, yet it shortly becomes apparent that he isn't hurrying to get to England. While watchful for a boat that will take them home, a dual check into a massively creepy hotel on a coast. No other guest are staying in a building given it's out of season, so Valerie and Stefan have a pleasing building all to themselves. That is until Countess Elizabeth Bathory (Delphine Seyrig) and her pleasing messenger Ilona (Andrea Rau) arrive on a stage in a selected automobile. Most of us are wakeful that Elizabeth Bathory was a scandalous sixteenth century Hungarian peeress who presumably kept herself evermore immature by showering in vats filled with a blood of immature maidens. Unfortunately, Valerie and Stefan don't make a connection.
Still, a newlyweds grow increasingly wakeful that something isn't right with a pleasing countess. First, it's rather peculiar that a hotel manager claims that he remembers Countess Elizabeth display adult during a hotel scarcely fifty years before looking accurately as she does now. Second, she's officious creepy. There's something dim behind her horrific laugh that creates we wish to scream. Second, a Countess Elizabeth takes an implausible seductiveness in a activities of a couple. She always seems to seem whenever Stefan and Valerie leave their room, grinning that terrible laugh and cooing like a cat over a dual newlyweds. Bathory seems to have an eye for a pleasing Valerie, too, that creates clarity when we learn accurately because Ilona follows her around like a puppy. It turns out story finished a mistake about a blood vats, not noticing or refusing to record that Bathory was unequivocally a vampire with a gusto for immature gals. She's roamed Europe for over 3 hundred years personification a same bloody game, a diversion that now threatens to slice detached perpetually this untimely couple. In no time during all, Elizabeth manages to expostulate a crowd between a Stefan and Valerie, partisan a latter to her parched cause, and wreak a whole heck of a lot of massacre in a hotel.
You usually gotta adore this film. "Daughters of Darkness" is one of a best vampire films we have ever seen for a crowd of reasons. The primary reason a design succeeds is due to a extraordinary talents of Delphine Seyrig. Who is this lively lady and where has she been all my life? we adore this lady! She manages to make her impression insanely beautiful and metaphysically scary during a same time. She slinks around in shimmering outfits dropping divulgence comments, tells horribly bloody stories, winks, and grins with a biggest of ease. And her predestine during a finish of a film is hideous and disturbing. Just as good as Seyrig is a rough atmosphere of a hotel and a barren surroundings. Characters pierce around outward underneath cloudy skies and by pouring rain. Forests circuitously are unenlightened and spooky. Every set square seems to telegram a clarity of imminent doom for a film's participants. Finally, we simply won't trust your eyes when Stefan calls his mom on a phone. What was executive Harry Kumel meditative here? What an impossibly weird stage to insert into a picture! Oh man, we usually won't clarity a stupidity of it!
"Daughters of Darkness" deserves 5 stars for a extraordinary performances and over a tip antics. we can't appreciate Blue Underground adequate for releasing this value on DVD. While a imitation send spasmodic suffers from some teenager blemishes and vanishing colors, many of a film looks great. Extras embody dual explanation tracks, radio spots, a trailer, stills, and an talk with Andrea Rau. Run, don't walk, to collect adult a duplicate of this underrated gem.
33 of 36 people found a following examination helpful.
Top-notch Euro Horror
By Timothy Ramzyk
The idea of "vampirism" has always had ties to dim and banned sides of tellurian sexuality, and has served as embellishment for homosexuality, nymphomania, and maochism. The passionate series of late 60's and early 70's constructed a brood of erotic, "lesbian" vampire films, in that their creators were means to graphically feat all demeanour of passionate taboos that had usually been hinted during previously. DVDs have given us a smashing cross-section of these banned fruits from Jess Franco's unusual Vampiros Lesbos to a surreal-dreamy accoutrements of Jean Rollin's Shiver Of The Vampires, yet Daughter's of Darkness is for many (myself included) is a cream of a crop.
Daughter's is kind of a hybrid between Sheridan Fornau's often-filmed vampire story, Carmilla, and a many legends and exploits of real-life "vampire" Elizabeth Bathory. Brought into a present, a film starts with a attainment of dual newlyweds, Stephan & Valerie (John Karlen & Danielle Quimet), to a murky and mostly forlorn beachfront hotel in Belgium. From a conflict we observe all is not right with this union, Stephan refuses to tell his "mother" of their matrimony and is divulgence an detached and sadistic temperament, that Valerie mournfully tolerates. Out of a night arrives a Countess Elizabeth Bathory (Delphine Seyrig) and her moist companion/accomplice Ilona (Andrea Rau). The Countess takes an immediate, carnal seductiveness in a immature newlyweds, and generally in Valerie. Meanwhile there seems to be a unreasonable of murders in a circuitously villages in that a immature womanlike victims have been emptied of all their blood. Before prolonged a countess and her demure messenger have seduced a uneasy newlyweds, and this is where a fun begins.
Though many amorous vampire films of a time exaggerate delicious visuals & thriving nudity, executive Harry Kummel clearly meant Daughters of Darkness to be some-more than a thinly potential soft-core "art film". Not that it's reduction these elements, Daughters' is utterly explicit, yet it's also a worldly and rarely styled fear film laced with bewildering moments of black-comedy. In short, it's delightfully European.
As a time-honoured and decadent Elizabeth Bathory, Euro-star Delphine Seryig is yet peer. More mostly than not, womanlike erotic-vampires are portrayed as baleful, reluctant victims of their possess desires, yet not Elisabeth. The Countess takes good honour in her wickedness, and done-up like a thirties Marline Dietrich, Seyrig is plausible and amusing, yet never trite as she gleefully corrupts all that she touches.
Blue Underground's anamorphic send of Daughters is a immeasurable alleviation over a early Anchor Bay edition. Though utilizing a same source, Blue Undergrounds mastering is sharper, a colors are some-more fast and it's giveaway of a draining and artifacts that disease a prior release. It still contains a explanation lane with masculine lead John Karlen, yet raises a stakes severely with an additional explanation lane with executive Harry Kumel, an onscreen talk with singer Andrea Rau, an glorious melodramatic trailer, radio spots, and a print and still gallery. Priced during $20 (or less) this is an essential up-grade for Euro-horror fans and an glorious entrance for a Euro-curious.
16 of 17 people found a following examination helpful.
A MUST for a film library of any critical fear film fan
By Dean Sliger
This is one of those cinema from a days when internal stations ran fear cinema on Saturday afternoons, stations that -- alas! -- have given aligned with pretender networks and now run infomercials all day. Mostly they'd run a good films from Hammer Studios, a Japanese beast cinema like "Godzilla," and, of course, a '50s B-movies like "Them." Every now and then, though, they'd uncover this truly creepy small gem. Now, of course, as an adult we commend this as an 'Art Film' yet afterwards it was usually eerie, creepy, and totally opposite -- generally when compared to a standard vampire and other beast cinema where a favourite gets a lady and a beast gets killed/destroyed. A fear film finished as an art film, there's a lot going on that a spectator possibly has to guess, assume, or be left wondering about. In that sense, "Daughters of Darkness" foreshadows a complicated Japanese fear films like "Ringu" or "Uzumaki" where you're left with unanswered questions, a kind that make we check to make certain a doors are locked. Blue Underground did a illusory pursuit with this DVD transfer, and it's good to be means to see this film in a entirety instead of edited for TV. The usually thing blank is Delphine Seyrig singing a pretension thesis during a commencement of a film ("...Don't let a object find you, or we might blur and die."). Where'd that go?
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