Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 6
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 0
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Release Date: Sep 30, 1972 Wide
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Vicente Aranda directed this erotic horror film, continuing themes which he had explored in the previous year's Exquisite Cadaver. Alexandra Bastedo stars as a lesbian vampire who woos frigid newlywed Maribel Martin away from her husband Simon Andreu on their honeymoon. Aranda fills the film with haunting imagery, gorgeously photographed by veteran cinematographer Fernando Arribas, and the story's sometimes illogical twists are compensated for with heavy, skillfully-crafted atmosphere. The
Sep 30, 1972 Wide
Apr 26, 1999
Anchor Bay Entertainment
All Critics (6) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (0) | DVD (5)
When it comes to florid and fevered 70s horror and sexploitation, it doesn't get much better than this haunted, gothic - and yes, a bit cheesy - fantasy.
Just don't expect it to be all that intelligent.
Was excited about this Tarantino pick. Stylish enough, good use of color and shadows; and the beginning has sympathy for the wife (Maribel Martin, beautiful and sexy with only mid-level cheek bones ) and a queasy fear about the husband, a macho aristocrat with a Bluebeard-like psychology. Around the middle, the
July 10, 2010Super Reviewer
This is the weakest version of "Carmilla" ever filmed. It's very slow and lacks any real similarity to Sheridan Le Fanu's story (which only seems to have inspired the names of the characters).There isn't much in the way of gore and, although there is as much nudity as you would expect in an early 70s Euro-horror, it's
August 19, 2007Super Reviewer
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