Daughters of Darkness [SEP] director
Daughters of Darkness
Daughters of Darkness (in France, Les Lèvres Rouges, in Belgium, Le Rouge aux Lèvres (the former literally translated as "The Red Lips" and the latter as "The Red on the Lips") and in the Netherlands, Dorst Naar Bloed (meaning "Blood Thirst") is a 1971 Belgian horror film (with dialogue in English), directed by Harry Kümel. It is an erotic vampire film.
Plot summary.
A recently married young couple, Stefan (John Karlen
's short story "Ligeia", and Henry James's novella "The Turn of the Screw".
According to the critic Geoffrey O'Brien:
Lesbian vampires made frequent incursions in the early 1970’s—in movies ranging from hardcore pornographic to dreamily aesthetic — as the Gothic horror movie took to flaunting its psychosexual subtexts. "Daughters of Darkness" leans flamboyantly toward the artistic end of the spectrum, with Delphine Seyrig sporting "Marienbad"-like costumes and the Belgian director conjuring up images of luxurious decadence replete with feathers, mirrors, and