Vampire Lesbos 1970
An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood. Dir. Jesus Franco’s 1970 VAMPYROS LESBOS (inexplicably titled above “El Signo del vampiro”) is the masterpiece of all Euro-exploitation genres. You can swoon over the Greenaway lighting in SUSPIRIA; you can thrill to the comic-book metaphysics of THE BEYOND; a few solitary freaks might smack their chops over CANNIBAL FEROX. But Franco’s fever-dreamy Z movie, a dusted-out collage of St. Tropez glamour, poisonous softcore sex, platter-party lounge music gone Satanic, and more crazy zooms than the entire body of martial-arts movies combined.
