Female Vampire (1973)

A beautiful female vampire lures men to their doom.

Director:

Jesús Franco (as J.P. Johnson)

Writers:

Jesús Franco (as J.P. Johnson), Josyane Gibert (dialogue) (as P. Belair)

Stars:

Lina Romay, Jack Taylor, Alice Arno

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Lina Romay	...	Countess Irina Karlstein
Jack Taylor	...	Baron Von Rathony
Alice Arno	...	Princess de Rochefort's Servant
Monica Swinn	...	Princess de Rochefort (as Monica Swin)
Jesús Franco	...	Dr. Roberts (as Jess Franck)
Luis Barboo	...	Irina's Manservant
Jean-Pierre Bouyxou	...	Dr. Orloff
Raymond Hardy	...	Hotel Masseur
Anna Watican	...	Anna, a journalist

Storyline

In the Madeira Island, the mute Countess Irina Karlstein is the last descendant of the evil Karlstein vampire family. She lives with her also mute servant and seems to be nymphomaniac, seeking for sex most of the time without satisfaction. Irina likes oral sex with men and women to suck off not only semen, but apparently also blood, killing her male and female lovers.

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Plot Keywords:

female vampire | vampire | mute | sex | island | 

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Taglines:

Maailman Kuulu Shokki!

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Genres:

Horror

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

France Belgium

Language:

French

Release Date:

10 April 1973 (France)

Also Known As:

Erotic Kill

Filming Locations:

Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium

Company Credits

Production Co:

Eurociné,Général Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

82 min 104 min (unrated)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This film exists in many different versions, with different titles, additional and/or deleted footage and even with different credits, although the latter is largely due to variations of Jesús Franco's pseudonyms. The versions range from hardcore porn with little horror on the one extreme to plain horror with little sex on the other.

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Goofs

In the opening shot, Lina Romay literally walks into the camera, bumping her face on the lens.

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Quotes

Countess Irina Karlstein: [voiceover] I earnestly wish an end would come to this bloody race I am forced to run.

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Alternate Versions

The DVD released by Image Entertainment under the title "Female Vampire" runs for approx 101 minutes and is an explicit sex-oriented version, although is it missing some brief footage of the Countess performing fellatio that is present in some foreign prints.

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Connections

Featured in Eurotika!: Strange Behaviour (1999)

User Reviews

Wow!

What an excellent film! Try not to dig too deep but this is classic eurotrash and when you've been away from eurotrash for a while you'll need a stunner like this to remind you how fantastic it can be. Jess Franco has let us down occasionally in the past, but this must surely be his masterpiece. Trust no American issues as they prefer violence to sex and edit accordingly. Don't analyse the plot because you'll miss the point.

Beautifully shot by Joan Vincent, this is serious erect-nipple vampirism, with all the longing and the loneliness that goes with belonging to the undead...although there are not many people who look as alive as Lina Romay does in this movie. Absolutely excellent and for a change coherent. Wistful, sexy, hypereal. Genuinely an extraordinary movie.