- Year
- 1971
- Country
- France · West Germany · BE · USA
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Director
- Harry Kümel
- Updated
- 9 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (35/100)
- Also known as
- The Promise of Red Lips · Blood on the Lips · The Redness of the Lips
Daughters of Darkness
Delphine Seyrig as Bathory in an empty Ostend hotel. Genuinely elegant.
The most elegant vampire film on this shelf. Countess Bathory, played by Delphine Seyrig as pure old-world glamour, checks into a deserted grand hotel on the Belgian coast in the off-season and takes an interest in a honeymooning couple. Almost nothing happens quickly.
It is art-house horror, all cold light, empty corridors and menace by implication, closer to Last Year at Marienbad than to Hammer. The violence, when it comes, is almost an afterthought to the mood.
Slow, gorgeous and seductive.
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