Vampyros Lesbos *** (1971, Soledad Miranda, Dennis Price, Ewa Stromberg, Paul Muller) – Classic Movie Review 3153

‘A Psycho-Sexadelic Horror Freakout!’

Dennis Price stars as Dr Alwin Seward in director Jesús Franco’s 1971 Spanish erotic horror movie about vixen vampiress Countess Nadine Carody (Soledad Miranda) seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.

Paul Muller plays Dr Steiner, Ewa Stromberg is Linda Westinghouse, Heidrun Kussin is Agra, José Martínez Blanco is Morpho and director Franco appears as Memmet.

It is now a minor Seventies cult movie icon, renowned for its flashy visuals and sexploitation ideas.

Jaime Chávarri wrote the Bram Stoker-based story and screenplay (with Jesús Franco and Anne Settimó). Dennis Price also played Doctor Frankenstein in both Drácula contra Frankenstein (1972) and The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1973) for Jesús Franco. In delicate health, Price died in 1973, aged 58 on 6 October 1973.

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