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A Franco Gem That Requires Excessive Viewing
You know, the first few times I saw this film I said to myself "Damn, Soledad Miranda and Ewa Stroemberg are hot", but once I got past that poor male sentiment I began to realize that this is a great film. It really is. How many films hold up on repeated viewings? Not many for me. Even some of the classics don't have staying power. This gem does. It's the only film that I consider to be hypnotically erotic. Franco hit upon a goldmine with Miranda and his direction shows that he knew what he had. I have been lost in the film's sensuality many times. The strength in this film will reveal itself upon repeated viewings. Vampyros Lesbos is a culmination of all the great moments that pass by all to quickly in so many of Franco's lesser works. The DVD looks and sound very nice. Word is that it may be rereleased with better picture and sound quality. But that is most likely a long way off. Note: The "Stars" review above reflects my feelings towards the film and DVD presentation. Should a better looking disc be released it will surely get five stars from me.

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Alas, Soledad Miranda
Let yourself fall under the spell of this campy, corny and yet quite effective little '70s Eurotrash remake of DRACULA. I'd been wanting to see this film for well over a decade when I first heard of it in a book called THE SEAL OF DRACULA that contained some enticing photos from it. Finally, with the advent of DVD, movies previously difficult to obtain on VHS are now on sale down at Best Buy! Oh hooray for mass market American culture.

In VAMPYROS LESBOS, director Jess Franco inverts the story so that all the male characters are female and has all the action take place in broad daylight. Perhaps the best example of this is is when Linda Westinghouse (Ewa Stromberg as the Harker character) meets Countess Carody for the first time--it's Soledad Miranda, the mysterious, exotic and doomed Portugese beauty in all her resplendent glory: tanned, moist and clad in a white bikini, her depthless eyes shielded by huge sunglasses. A vampire sunbathing! How cool. Of course they promptly head to a secluded beach for some nude frolicking. Delightful!

Along with the well-known soundtrack, VAMPYROS LESBOS offers lots of funny arthouse satire, and a fairly efficient plotline. But the real reason to watch this film is for the one and only Soledad Miranda, who across thirty years still has the power to captivate viewers. With those surreal, dreamy sequences of her dancing with a mannequin, and her frequent nude scenes, you too will find her clouding your mind. Sadly, she was killed in a car accident not long after finishing this film. Alas, Soledad Miranda...

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Don't waste your money
This is boring rubbish. Not sexy, not scary, not artistic, not meaningful, not nothing. bad cinematography, worse script, even worse acting, lighting, costuming etc. BORING music. I bought it hoping for something with style and flare along the lines of Bava or Argento, and got a movie I could have filmed in four minutes even though it runs around 90 minutes and feels like it's six hours long when you watch it. Ed Wood was a better film maker than this guy. Save your money and buy a worthwhile film like Kurosawa's Ikiru, Renoir's Rules of the Game, or if you want horror, Mizoguchi's Ugetsu..now Ugetsu is a scary, erotic and fabulous film. if you must have lesbian vampires, even Tony Scott's The Hunger is 600 million times better. Cheers