Daughters of Darkness (1971) ( Les Lèvres rouges ) ( Blood on the Lips )

Daughters of Darkness (1971) (Blu-Ray) (*)

$22.99

Original Title: Les Lèvres rouges
Alternate Title: Blood on the Lips
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
87 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1971 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Harry Kümel

Written By:
Pierre Drouot
Jean Ferry

Actors:
John Karlen ..... Stefan
Delphine Seyrig ..... Countess Bathory
Danielle Ouimet ..... Valerie
Andrea Rau ..... Ilona Harczy
Paul Esser ..... Hotel clerk
Georges Jamin ..... The Man
Joris Collet ..... Butler
Fons Rademakers ..... Mother

Synopsis:

A recently eloped, troubled young couple book into a luxurious but desolate hotel. Valerie is young, naïve and curious, where as Stefan's sadistic tendencies are slowly bubbling to the surface. When a mysterious, exotic countess arrives at the hotel with her voluptuous assistant, things take a turn for the bizarre. As the nights draw in, the newlyweds are slowly seduced into an erotically charged, supernatural world of uncontrollable lust and murder. Can they resist the lure of fevered temptation or must they submit to their darkest fantasies? Extremely bold and dripping with psychosexual tension, Daughters Of Darkness is one of the most unorthodox and visually stylish vampire movies ever made. An absolute classic of 70's underground horror, Daughters Of Darkness takes visceral pleasure in warping genre conventions at every mind-bending opportunity. An unforgettable cult movie that takes you beyond horror, beyond sexy and beyond the grave.

Two days after getting married in Switzerland, Valerie and Stefan Chilton travel by train to take a boat to England to visit Stefan's mother at the Chilton Manor. However, the train has to stop in Ostend and the couple lodges in the royal suite at a seaside hotel. The concierge Pierre advises that the place is empty since it is out of season and they become aware of three murders in Bruges. On the same night, the Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Báthory arrives in the hotel with her secretary Ilona Harczy and Pierre swears that she had been in the hotel forty years ago with the same appearance. When Valerie and Stefan cross the path with the mysterious countess, their lives are affected by the woman. Meanwhile a retired detective snoops at the hotel suspecting that the countess may be the serial-killer that drains the blood of the victims to use as elixir of youth.

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.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 12 March, 2023.