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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.
Movie Tagline:
An erotic nightmare of vampire lust [DVD]
Also Known As:
Daughters of Darkness
Title: Les Levres Rouges
Release Date: May 28, 1971
Runtime: 100 mins
Genre: Horror
All Genres: Horror
Languages: Dutch, English
Country: Belgium, France, West Germany
Colors: Color
Sound: Mono
IMDB Rating: 6.6
Brimstone Pit Rating: 7.6 - (Rate This Horror Movie)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With L
MPAA Rating: R
Director(s):
Harry Kumel
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
Remaining Cast:
Producer(s):
Paul Collet
Pierre Drouot
Alain C. Guilleaume
Henry Lange
Luggi Waldleitner
Writer(s):
Pierre Drouot
Harry Kumel
Jean Ferry
Manfred R. Kohler
Composer(s):
Francois de Roubaix
More Movie Taglines:
- An erotic nightmare of vampire lust [DVD]
- These are the Daughters of Darkness... They are waiting for you
- They thrive on BLOOD
Movie Quote(s):
- Countess Bathory: I feel it in my bones, the night is dying...
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Countess Bathory: It is since long that I have crossed the river Ocean!
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Countess Bathory: Love is stronger than death... even than life.
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Movie 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...
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Shot entirely in English, even though the majority of the cast was French, German and Flemish. As opposed to most European "genre" films from the 70s, here none of the actors were post-dubbed by others. They can all be heard with their own voices (resulting in some accents), notably Delphine Seyrig's deep, smoky voice or Andrea Rau's and Paul Messer's German accents.
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In 2007, Harry Kümel revealed in an Interview that initially, Delphine Seyrig, already being a well-renowned icon of sophisticated European cinema, wasn't too eager to take the part of the Countess Bathory when he sent her the script. Seyrig's Boyfriend, famous French Director Alain Resnais, was a big fan of graphic novels and when he imagined Kümel's material and idea of the film to be something of a graphic novel, he enthusiastically convinced Seyrig to take the offer. Kümel also said that, at that time, he and his co-writers thought Seyrig's consent was "too good to be true".
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Keywords:
Newlywed, Sexual Violence, Male Frontal Nudity, Seduction, Zither ...[more]
Keywords All:
Beautiful Woman, Honeymoon, Color In Title, Male Nudity, Serial Murder, Hypnosis, Female Frontal Nudity, Lesbianism, Manipulation, Surrealism, Vampire, Shower, Erotica, Revenge, Lesbian, Lesbian Vampire, Violence, Bisexual, Female Nudity, Cult Favorite, Impalement, Mind Control
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Rating: 7.6 out of 10.0 - 62 votes cast total
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