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Starring: Marianne Morris , Anulka Dziubinska , Murray Brown , Brian Deacon , and Sally Faulkner
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ASIN: B000092T69
Release Date: 2003-05-27 |
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"Naked girls and lots of blood, that's what Vampyres is about," says Joseph Larraz in the notes to the film. He rewrites the vampire myth to make his bloodsucking lovelies the restless ghosts of lesbian lovers murdered while making love in their shadowy castle. Reappearing nightly in the twilight forest, they lure men to their castle for blood feasts until the brunette vampire, Fran (Marianne Morris), falls for her latest victim (Murray Brown) and decides to keep him alive, a sex slave she slowly drains dry. "You're playing a dangerous game," warns blonde Miriam (Anulka), perhaps just a tad jealous. As the local cops watch a veritable wrecking yard of car crashes fill up the sleepy back roads (all with naked dead men behind the wheels), you have to wonder if anyone finds this a bit suspicious. It's a slim story filled with misty forests, candlelit castle interiors, and the above-mentioned blood and naked flesh. Larraz adds a few poetic flourishes--blood dripping down pale faces, clouds crawling past a castle--but, more important, gives the living dead girls a genuinely passionate relationship and a zest for nightlife. The DVD features commentary by Larraz and producer Brian Smedley-Ashton. --Sean Axmaker
Description
"They share the pleasures of the flesh, and unleashed the horrors of the grave!" screamed the ads. The beautiful Marianne Morris and stunning Playboy centerfold Anulka star as bisexual seductresses who roam the English countryside with an insatiable lust for the blood of mortals as well as the succulent bodies of each other. Director José Ramón Larraz packs this landmark adult hit with chilling atmosphere, shocking bloodshed and some of the most torrid sexuality of any vampire movie in horror history.
Also known as DAUGHTERS OF DRACULA, this controversial cult classic was butchered repeatedly by censors around the world. Blue Underground is proud to present VAMPYRES loaded with exclusive new Extras and featuring a stunning new transfer that restores all of the controversial gore footage missing from any previous version. This is the definitive edition of VAMPYRES!
Customer Reviews:
verrrrrry slooooow.......2007-06-13
I really liked the opening scene. but then i fell asleep.
im sure i missed all the good parts but its sooooo freakin slow. this film is the cure for insomnia.
"By This Sign I'll Recognize You".......2007-01-07
In the dark Romantic universe called "gothic" there are only a few things that matter: Love & Death, Sex & Death, Beauty & Death.
Fran (Marianne Morris) and Miriam (Anulka), the vamp protagonists of Larraz's "Vampyres," embody these essential qualities: they are dead, in love with each other, sexually active (and how!), and endowed with the sublime beauty characteristic of supernatural raptors. Of course their sanguinary habits provide an added enticement--a kind of icing on the macabre cake! Indeed nothing says Gothic Elegance like knife-wielding revenants ensconced in an English manor...
These unusual Heroines ask for more than acceptance: they require a viewer's admiration, adoration. Unimaginative twerps who can resist the girls' magic should certainly stick to the latest Hollywood extravaganzas, leaving "Vampyres" to the accursed Visionary Few (to whom the film rightly belongs).
Sexiest Vampires Ever!.......2006-08-22
One thing this & many other vampire films are faulted for is having vampires that move in the daylight. However, it should be noted that all the 19th century literature allowed for this as well, including Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. I believe it was not until the 1920's that this restriction was imposed on vampires, & it was an instrument of film, rather than literature.
That said, here's what i think works about it. #1, two very sexy women playing the vampires! No brainer on the lure here, but what is interesting is that they don't "look" like movie stars! They just look like 2 very attractive women you may, & have met in real life. This adds immensely to the largercredibility of the film IMO.
#2, Fearless portyayal of the vampiric union with blood, sex, & death. Call it exploitation, sexploitation, slasher, gore, pornography, trash... whatever you like. Ever since the early 19th century blood, sex, & death, have formed an inseperable, unholy trinity in vampirism. The candidness of this in "Vampyres" may appear over the top at a glance, but look again. This aspect of the vampire has been consistent through 200 years of literature. Lets take a deep breath, & try to be honest about what we have really been reading!
#3, a spectacularly thematic setting! It was a great rural spot, old run-down manor/castle in the early fall. Few vampire movies, or any other horror movies have matched the mood setting location this one enjoys.
#4 an unusual ending for vampire films. While certain sequences were removed inexplicably, it still provides a refreshingly different conclusions than the huge majority of vampire films.
What didn't work? I wish we would have had a chance to hear the actors real voices. Voice dubbs are almost always the most irritating part of any foreign film. There are certain holes in the story. Pieces in the script & shooting did not recieve a proper introduction from viewer perspective, while others did not recieve a proper resolution. Though these were small pieces, i believe they could have added a lot for suspense in the movie, which was somewhat lacking i felt. This problem is rampant in horror movies from this period. Why the brevity, i don't understand? The finished movie is 89 minutes. Just another 10 minutes could have changed the story from skeletal into truly memorable. Thus 4 stars & not 5. Still, a great movie though, and imo, one of the very best vampire flicks.
This film could of been better if the Director took his time...........2006-03-26
I had read some the reviews before I seen this film regardless of some of the bad reviews. I eventually wanted to see it for myself and you know what some of these reviews stands correct.
While, there might not be much in the way of plot and some scenes don't entirely tie together, but gladly clichés or predictably don't have a big say in where this film heads. Yep that's right, it steers clear away from traditional vampire customs you see in other horror tales. Vampires are seen as sexual predators with the seductive suggestiveness and allegories usually associated with these mythological creatures, but here that's replaced with a relentlessly raw pleasure within the girls' raunchy acts of desire, flesh and lust. Where the ghastly violence and steamy sex become one ultimate fulfillment. When they dine on their victims it isn't graceful, but rather messy and immensely rough in nature. Those moments really take you by force on how unsparingly, intense these blood feasts really are. When they're in that mindset their sexual intentions becomes unstably feral and film's climax provides that terrifyingly unpleasant manner superbly. Larraz's isn't particularly trying to scare you or clutter the film with action, but to sprinkle an unnerving anxiety that's sustained by its underlying eeriness and sexually charged tension of the situation these innocent victims have got themselves into. Since the dialogue was rather sparse too there were many silent moments that helped create such increasing alienation with its sweepingly, strained sound effects.
The production might've been cheap, but the well-mounted cinematography was professionally crafted in capturing the booming surroundings with such memorable images and the tantalizing (if sometimes funky) score builds an alarming cloud of mystery where you can sense something is not right. The film's pacing is laid-back with many slow stretches and repetitive occurrences breaking through, but I never found it a dull viewing because of it. The performances were good all round, though nothing hugely spectacular because the characters aren't reasonably well defined and therefore there's a lack of emotional involvement towards them. Marianne Morris and Anulka Dziubinska play the two bombshell vampires Fran and Miriam who are voluptuously and mysterious in this story. Then you got the victims, which were played by Murray Brown, Brian Deacon and Sally Faulkner. The latter two play the young couple that sometimes feel like after-thought within the story.
Maybe the plot ponders about and the cheap foundation shows, but they worked around it neatly enough to create a compellingly, sort of stunning erotica that will probably feed your hunger. If your wondering if I had purchase this DVD not a chance........Netflix...
Fun & Sexy Romp.......2005-09-28
I rate vampire/horror movies as great, bad and terrible. "Bad" horror films can be a lot of fun with their unintentional goofs and silly occurrences. Great movies are rarely the low budget Hammer-type films, and terrible is simply that...terrible.
Vampyres falls somewhere in between great and bad to my surprise. The chemistry of the actors was superb, the vampyres always seemed to have a good time and there were some great sex scenes. The violence was pitched just right, and there was some creativity such as eschewing the traditional neck-biting for sliced bloodletting, the vampyres enjoying sex, wine and even a cigarette.
Unfortunately, the "moldering" castle looked like new to me, and the camping couple nearby was a bit annoying. Who would go camping in a tiny trailer near the castle, then sit and polish the silver?
However, another refreshing detail of this film was the lovely nude actresses had genuine breasts! Not something you see much of anymore. Get it guys? [...]
I very much enjoyed this film, it is now one of my favorites. I'm not sure if I'll let my husband see it though, he might really like it!
Average customer rating:
- verrrrrry slooooow
- "By This Sign I'll Recognize You"
- Sexiest Vampires Ever!
- This film could of been better if the Director took his time....
- Fun & Sexy Romp
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Vampyres
Starring: Marianne Morris , Anulka Dziubinska , Murray Brown , Brian Deacon , and Sally Faulkner
Director: José Ramón Larraz
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ASIN: 6305808066
Release Date: 2000-05-09 |
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"Naked girls and lots of blood, that's what Vampyres is about," says Joseph Larraz in the notes to the film. He rewrites the vampire myth to make his bloodsucking lovelies the restless ghosts of lesbian lovers murdered while making love in their shadowy castle. Reappearing nightly in the twilight forest, they lure men to their castle for blood feasts until the brunette vampire, Fran (Marianne Morris), falls for her latest victim (Murray Brown) and decides to keep him alive, a sex slave she slowly drains dry. "You're playing a dangerous game," warns blonde Miriam (Anulka), perhaps just a tad jealous. As the local cops watch a veritable wrecking yard of car crashes fill up the sleepy back roads (all with naked dead men behind the wheels), you have to wonder if anyone finds this a bit suspicious. It's a slim story filled with misty forests, candlelit castle interiors, and the above-mentioned blood and naked flesh. Larraz adds a few poetic flourishes--blood dripping down pale faces, clouds crawling past a castle--but, more important, gives the living dead girls a genuinely passionate relationship and a zest for nightlife. The DVD features commentary by Larraz and producer Brian Smedley-Ashton. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews:
verrrrrry slooooow.......2007-06-13
I really liked the opening scene. but then i fell asleep.
im sure i missed all the good parts but its sooooo freakin slow. this film is the cure for insomnia.
"By This Sign I'll Recognize You".......2007-01-07
In the dark Romantic universe called "gothic" there are only a few things that matter: Love & Death, Sex & Death, Beauty & Death.
Fran (Marianne Morris) and Miriam (Anulka), the vamp protagonists of Larraz's "Vampyres," embody these essential qualities: they are dead, in love with each other, sexually active (and how!), and endowed with the sublime beauty characteristic of supernatural raptors. Of course their sanguinary habits provide an added enticement--a kind of icing on the macabre cake! Indeed nothing says Gothic Elegance like knife-wielding revenants ensconced in an English manor...
These unusual Heroines ask for more than acceptance: they require a viewer's admiration, adoration. Unimaginative twerps who can resist the girls' magic should certainly stick to the latest Hollywood extravaganzas, leaving "Vampyres" to the accursed Visionary Few (to whom the film rightly belongs).
Sexiest Vampires Ever!.......2006-08-22
One thing this & many other vampire films are faulted for is having vampires that move in the daylight. However, it should be noted that all the 19th century literature allowed for this as well, including Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. I believe it was not until the 1920's that this restriction was imposed on vampires, & it was an instrument of film, rather than literature.
That said, here's what i think works about it. #1, two very sexy women playing the vampires! No brainer on the lure here, but what is interesting is that they don't "look" like movie stars! They just look like 2 very attractive women you may, & have met in real life. This adds immensely to the largercredibility of the film IMO.
#2, Fearless portyayal of the vampiric union with blood, sex, & death. Call it exploitation, sexploitation, slasher, gore, pornography, trash... whatever you like. Ever since the early 19th century blood, sex, & death, have formed an inseperable, unholy trinity in vampirism. The candidness of this in "Vampyres" may appear over the top at a glance, but look again. This aspect of the vampire has been consistent through 200 years of literature. Lets take a deep breath, & try to be honest about what we have really been reading!
#3, a spectacularly thematic setting! It was a great rural spot, old run-down manor/castle in the early fall. Few vampire movies, or any other horror movies have matched the mood setting location this one enjoys.
#4 an unusual ending for vampire films. While certain sequences were removed inexplicably, it still provides a refreshingly different conclusions than the huge majority of vampire films.
What didn't work? I wish we would have had a chance to hear the actors real voices. Voice dubbs are almost always the most irritating part of any foreign film. There are certain holes in the story. Pieces in the script & shooting did not recieve a proper introduction from viewer perspective, while others did not recieve a proper resolution. Though these were small pieces, i believe they could have added a lot for suspense in the movie, which was somewhat lacking i felt. This problem is rampant in horror movies from this period. Why the brevity, i don't understand? The finished movie is 89 minutes. Just another 10 minutes could have changed the story from skeletal into truly memorable. Thus 4 stars & not 5. Still, a great movie though, and imo, one of the very best vampire flicks.
This film could of been better if the Director took his time...........2006-03-26
I had read some the reviews before I seen this film regardless of some of the bad reviews. I eventually wanted to see it for myself and you know what some of these reviews stands correct.
While, there might not be much in the way of plot and some scenes don't entirely tie together, but gladly clichés or predictably don't have a big say in where this film heads. Yep that's right, it steers clear away from traditional vampire customs you see in other horror tales. Vampires are seen as sexual predators with the seductive suggestiveness and allegories usually associated with these mythological creatures, but here that's replaced with a relentlessly raw pleasure within the girls' raunchy acts of desire, flesh and lust. Where the ghastly violence and steamy sex become one ultimate fulfillment. When they dine on their victims it isn't graceful, but rather messy and immensely rough in nature. Those moments really take you by force on how unsparingly, intense these blood feasts really are. When they're in that mindset their sexual intentions becomes unstably feral and film's climax provides that terrifyingly unpleasant manner superbly. Larraz's isn't particularly trying to scare you or clutter the film with action, but to sprinkle an unnerving anxiety that's sustained by its underlying eeriness and sexually charged tension of the situation these innocent victims have got themselves into. Since the dialogue was rather sparse too there were many silent moments that helped create such increasing alienation with its sweepingly, strained sound effects.
The production might've been cheap, but the well-mounted cinematography was professionally crafted in capturing the booming surroundings with such memorable images and the tantalizing (if sometimes funky) score builds an alarming cloud of mystery where you can sense something is not right. The film's pacing is laid-back with many slow stretches and repetitive occurrences breaking through, but I never found it a dull viewing because of it. The performances were good all round, though nothing hugely spectacular because the characters aren't reasonably well defined and therefore there's a lack of emotional involvement towards them. Marianne Morris and Anulka Dziubinska play the two bombshell vampires Fran and Miriam who are voluptuously and mysterious in this story. Then you got the victims, which were played by Murray Brown, Brian Deacon and Sally Faulkner. The latter two play the young couple that sometimes feel like after-thought within the story.
Maybe the plot ponders about and the cheap foundation shows, but they worked around it neatly enough to create a compellingly, sort of stunning erotica that will probably feed your hunger. If your wondering if I had purchase this DVD not a chance........Netflix...
Fun & Sexy Romp.......2005-09-28
I rate vampire/horror movies as great, bad and terrible. "Bad" horror films can be a lot of fun with their unintentional goofs and silly occurrences. Great movies are rarely the low budget Hammer-type films, and terrible is simply that...terrible.
Vampyres falls somewhere in between great and bad to my surprise. The chemistry of the actors was superb, the vampyres always seemed to have a good time and there were some great sex scenes. The violence was pitched just right, and there was some creativity such as eschewing the traditional neck-biting for sliced bloodletting, the vampyres enjoying sex, wine and even a cigarette.
Unfortunately, the "moldering" castle looked like new to me, and the camping couple nearby was a bit annoying. Who would go camping in a tiny trailer near the castle, then sit and polish the silver?
However, another refreshing detail of this film was the lovely nude actresses had genuine breasts! Not something you see much of anymore. Get it guys? [...]
I very much enjoyed this film, it is now one of my favorites. I'm not sure if I'll let my husband see it though, he might really like it!
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- verrrrrry slooooow
- "By This Sign I'll Recognize You"
- Sexiest Vampires Ever!
- This film could of been better if the Director took his time....
- Fun & Sexy Romp
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Vampyres: Daughters of Darkness [Region 2]
Starring: Marianne Morris , Anulka Dziubinska , Murray Brown , Brian Deacon , and Sally Faulkner
Director: José Ramón Larraz
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ASIN: B00009KP16 |
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"Naked girls and lots of blood, that's what Vampyres is about," says Joseph Larraz in the notes to the film. He rewrites the vampire myth to make his bloodsucking lovelies the restless ghosts of lesbian lovers murdered while making love in their shadowy castle. Reappearing nightly in the twilight forest, they lure men to their castle for blood feasts until the brunette vampire, Fran (Marianne Morris), falls for her latest victim (Murray Brown) and decides to keep him alive, a sex slave she slowly drains dry. "You're playing a dangerous game," warns blonde Miriam (Anulka), perhaps just a tad jealous. As the local cops watch a veritable wrecking yard of car crashes fill up the sleepy back roads (all with naked dead men behind the wheels), you have to wonder if anyone finds this a bit suspicious. It's a slim story filled with misty forests, candlelit castle interiors, and the above-mentioned blood and naked flesh. Larraz adds a few poetic flourishes--blood dripping down pale faces, clouds crawling past a castle--but, more important, gives the living dead girls a genuinely passionate relationship and a zest for nightlife. The DVD features commentary by Larraz and producer Brian Smedley-Ashton. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews:
verrrrrry slooooow.......2007-06-13
I really liked the opening scene. but then i fell asleep.
im sure i missed all the good parts but its sooooo freakin slow. this film is the cure for insomnia.
"By This Sign I'll Recognize You".......2007-01-07
In the dark Romantic universe called "gothic" there are only a few things that matter: Love & Death, Sex & Death, Beauty & Death.
Fran (Marianne Morris) and Miriam (Anulka), the vamp protagonists of Larraz's "Vampyres," embody these essential qualities: they are dead, in love with each other, sexually active (and how!), and endowed with the sublime beauty characteristic of supernatural raptors. Of course their sanguinary habits provide an added enticement--a kind of icing on the macabre cake! Indeed nothing says Gothic Elegance like knife-wielding revenants ensconced in an English manor...
These unusual Heroines ask for more than acceptance: they require a viewer's admiration, adoration. Unimaginative twerps who can resist the girls' magic should certainly stick to the latest Hollywood extravaganzas, leaving "Vampyres" to the accursed Visionary Few (to whom the film rightly belongs).
Sexiest Vampires Ever!.......2006-08-22
One thing this & many other vampire films are faulted for is having vampires that move in the daylight. However, it should be noted that all the 19th century literature allowed for this as well, including Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. I believe it was not until the 1920's that this restriction was imposed on vampires, & it was an instrument of film, rather than literature.
That said, here's what i think works about it. #1, two very sexy women playing the vampires! No brainer on the lure here, but what is interesting is that they don't "look" like movie stars! They just look like 2 very attractive women you may, & have met in real life. This adds immensely to the largercredibility of the film IMO.
#2, Fearless portyayal of the vampiric union with blood, sex, & death. Call it exploitation, sexploitation, slasher, gore, pornography, trash... whatever you like. Ever since the early 19th century blood, sex, & death, have formed an inseperable, unholy trinity in vampirism. The candidness of this in "Vampyres" may appear over the top at a glance, but look again. This aspect of the vampire has been consistent through 200 years of literature. Lets take a deep breath, & try to be honest about what we have really been reading!
#3, a spectacularly thematic setting! It was a great rural spot, old run-down manor/castle in the early fall. Few vampire movies, or any other horror movies have matched the mood setting location this one enjoys.
#4 an unusual ending for vampire films. While certain sequences were removed inexplicably, it still provides a refreshingly different conclusions than the huge majority of vampire films.
What didn't work? I wish we would have had a chance to hear the actors real voices. Voice dubbs are almost always the most irritating part of any foreign film. There are certain holes in the story. Pieces in the script & shooting did not recieve a proper introduction from viewer perspective, while others did not recieve a proper resolution. Though these were small pieces, i believe they could have added a lot for suspense in the movie, which was somewhat lacking i felt. This problem is rampant in horror movies from this period. Why the brevity, i don't understand? The finished movie is 89 minutes. Just another 10 minutes could have changed the story from skeletal into truly memorable. Thus 4 stars & not 5. Still, a great movie though, and imo, one of the very best vampire flicks.
This film could of been better if the Director took his time...........2006-03-26
I had read some the reviews before I seen this film regardless of some of the bad reviews. I eventually wanted to see it for myself and you know what some of these reviews stands correct.
While, there might not be much in the way of plot and some scenes don't entirely tie together, but gladly clichés or predictably don't have a big say in where this film heads. Yep that's right, it steers clear away from traditional vampire customs you see in other horror tales. Vampires are seen as sexual predators with the seductive suggestiveness and allegories usually associated with these mythological creatures, but here that's replaced with a relentlessly raw pleasure within the girls' raunchy acts of desire, flesh and lust. Where the ghastly violence and steamy sex become one ultimate fulfillment. When they dine on their victims it isn't graceful, but rather messy and immensely rough in nature. Those moments really take you by force on how unsparingly, intense these blood feasts really are. When they're in that mindset their sexual intentions becomes unstably feral and film's climax provides that terrifyingly unpleasant manner superbly. Larraz's isn't particularly trying to scare you or clutter the film with action, but to sprinkle an unnerving anxiety that's sustained by its underlying eeriness and sexually charged tension of the situation these innocent victims have got themselves into. Since the dialogue was rather sparse too there were many silent moments that helped create such increasing alienation with its sweepingly, strained sound effects.
The production might've been cheap, but the well-mounted cinematography was professionally crafted in capturing the booming surroundings with such memorable images and the tantalizing (if sometimes funky) score builds an alarming cloud of mystery where you can sense something is not right. The film's pacing is laid-back with many slow stretches and repetitive occurrences breaking through, but I never found it a dull viewing because of it. The performances were good all round, though nothing hugely spectacular because the characters aren't reasonably well defined and therefore there's a lack of emotional involvement towards them. Marianne Morris and Anulka Dziubinska play the two bombshell vampires Fran and Miriam who are voluptuously and mysterious in this story. Then you got the victims, which were played by Murray Brown, Brian Deacon and Sally Faulkner. The latter two play the young couple that sometimes feel like after-thought within the story.
Maybe the plot ponders about and the cheap foundation shows, but they worked around it neatly enough to create a compellingly, sort of stunning erotica that will probably feed your hunger. If your wondering if I had purchase this DVD not a chance........Netflix...
Fun & Sexy Romp.......2005-09-28
I rate vampire/horror movies as great, bad and terrible. "Bad" horror films can be a lot of fun with their unintentional goofs and silly occurrences. Great movies are rarely the low budget Hammer-type films, and terrible is simply that...terrible.
Vampyres falls somewhere in between great and bad to my surprise. The chemistry of the actors was superb, the vampyres always seemed to have a good time and there were some great sex scenes. The violence was pitched just right, and there was some creativity such as eschewing the traditional neck-biting for sliced bloodletting, the vampyres enjoying sex, wine and even a cigarette.
Unfortunately, the "moldering" castle looked like new to me, and the camping couple nearby was a bit annoying. Who would go camping in a tiny trailer near the castle, then sit and polish the silver?
However, another refreshing detail of this film was the lovely nude actresses had genuine breasts! Not something you see much of anymore. Get it guys? [...]
I very much enjoyed this film, it is now one of my favorites. I'm not sure if I'll let my husband see it though, he might really like it!
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