Vampyres
Vampyres is a 1974 film from the UK, directed by José Ramón Larraz, running 87 minutes. reelscum files it under euro-gothic.
- Year
- 1974 · 1970s films
- Country
- UK
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Director
- José Ramón Larraz
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (44/100)
- Also known as
- Vampyres: Daughters of Darkness · Blood Hunger · Vampyres, Daughters of Dracula
Defined in the glossary: Euro-gothic
Two women lure travellers to a country house and drain them. British, bloody, erotic.
A British lesbian-vampire film with more atmosphere and genuine eroticism than most of the Euro-gothic cycle. Two women haunt a lonely English country estate, seducing passing men and draining their blood, in a hazy, blood-soaked reverie that blurs sex and death throughout.
Jose Ramon Larraz directs it with real style, and it is franker and more intense than the Hammer vampire films it sits alongside. It became notorious in Britain for its content. One of the better films of its very specific subgenre.
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