Daughters of Darkness (1971)

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100 min - Horror - 22 October 1971 (USA)

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Reviews: 40 user | 63 critic

A newlywed couple are passing through a vacation resort. Their paths cross with a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide.

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Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Delphine Seyrig	...	Countess Bathory
	John Karlen	...	Stefan
	Danielle Ouimet	...	Valerie
	Andrea Rau	...	Ilona Harczy
	Paul Esser	...	Hotel clerk
	Georges Jamin	...	Retired Policeman
	Joris Collet	...	Butler
	Fons Rademakers	...	Mother

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Storyline

A chic, good-looking and suitably 70's couple arrive at an extravagant and deserted seaside hotel after eloping. Stefan is wealthy and happily English, with a hidden streak of sadism, while Valarie is intelligent but of inferior (Swedish) blood. To keep her with him at the eerie hotel he lies consistantly about his relationship with his mother and his plans to tell her of their marriage. Meanwhile he has mysterious phone conversations with an older, dominant and pampered sissy. Two fresh guests arrive; the Hungarian countess, Elizabeth Bathory and her voluptuous protege, Ilona. Virgin corpses begin showing up about the city drained of their blood. A wary detective lurks around the hotel taunting his only suspect, the Countess. Written by kwedgwood@hotmail.com

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Horror

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Details

Country:

Belgium | France | West Germany

Language:

Dutch | English

Release Date:

22 October 1971 (USA) See more »

Also Known As:

Dzieci nocy See more »

Filming Locations:

Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium See more »

Company Credits

Production Co:

Showking Films, Maya Films, Ciné Vog Films See more »

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Technical Specs

Runtime:

USA: 100 min (uncut version) | USA: 87 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

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Trivia

The dining room of Palais des Thermes (Ostend) with the coloured glass wall representing the sea with seagulls, where Valerie and Stefan are eating the first evening and where countess Bathory sees them for the first time, still exists but the trinkhall (300 meters from the hotel) with the seduction scene between countess Bathory and Valerie ("little Edelweis") is no longer there. The entrance hall is at Hotel Astoria (with the conversation with Pierre and where countess Bathory is knitting), but the rooms and windows are shot at the Grand Hotel des Thermes. If countess Bathory has been there 40 years ago, this is not probable because the hotel is build only in 1932 and the action takes place in 1970... See more »

Daughters of Darkness (1971)
Les lèvres rouges (original title)

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