Alice Arno, Jack Taylor, Jean Pierre Bouyxou

Countess Irina (Lina Romay) lives on the island of Madeira, Portugal, where she must drain the "life force" of men and women for her own "survival." One of her lovers/victims is a poet (Jack Taylor) w...( read more  read more... )ho believes the undead countess is meant for him. Prolific exploitation director Jess Franco filmed this influential erotic chiller -- which established Romay (who Franco later married) as a sex and horror film icon -- on location on Madeira.

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Unrated, 82 min

Directed by: Jesus Franco

Release Date: December 31, 1973

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DVD Release Date: August 15, 2000

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  • September 4, 2009
    Lina Romay plays a mute countess who walks around naked most of the time and likes to suck blood from orgasming peni. No plot and hardly any dialogue. Oh yeah, there's a detective trying to figure out who the murderer is, but he's dumb so the movie lasts a lot longer than it should.
  • June 13, 2008
    I am not a huge Franco fan but I can say this his films contain such bizarre imagery, odd-ball stories and brazen disregard for the social status quo that the man is just fascinating. Female Vampire represents one of his most off-kilter efforts to date.

    The story is nearly imp...( read more)ossible to describe, but here goes; Countess Barthory (the lovely Lina Romay) is on vacation in Europe. She is mute sex maniac and a vampire/succubus. Her henchman (also mute) goes about collecting willing subjects for the Countess for her to feed her lusts.

    And that is about it. Most of the film is filled with slow, dreamy sequences interconnected with shots out a car window, which are the only scenes the Countess speaks. Lacking in plot on a grand scale, Franco fills the running time with as much full-frontal nudity as can be packed in a film. Wisely choosing not to go down the hardcore road (unless your watching the badly re-edited German X-rated version) the nudity and sex come off as genuinely erotic.

    Romay spends almost all of her screen time almost completely nude; either rolling about in some kind of horny-angst or fulfilling the same desires. A nice touch to the couplings is that while she must kill her companions to sustain her own life (she is a vampire after all), after each death she seems both deeply remorseful for having to take life and yet more aroused than before. Like a drug addict, the more she gets, the more she needs, the more she hates herself.

    The film exists is a wide range of cuts and editions, but three main versions seem prevalent. The Bare Breasted Countess aka the "R-rated" cut; Female Vampire aka the "NC-17" cut; and the re-edited porn version. Of them all the "NC-17" is by far the best; the weaker versions are to dry and the hardcore version features explicit footage obviously spliced in from a different film.

    Oddly watchable and one film Franco fans shouldn't miss anyone else should just check you brain at the door and enjoy.
  • March 20, 2008
    A bit of a disapointment for me. Female Vampire is Franco's sexually charged film starring Lina Romay in her first starring role.
    I had heard much about this. But after seeing it i cant figure out what all the hoopla is about. Franco spends most of the film zooming in on Romays...( read more) hairy chocha as she rolls around in a sexual frenzy. Now i love Franco, but this one bored me a bit.
    Now Romay did hold my interest for the most part. She is definatly doing her best Soledad Miranda impersination. She looks good even if that bush streches to he Culo.
    I can see myself revisiting this film in the future so its not a total loss. Just a disapointment.
  • March 13, 2008
    a last desending vampire, living it up at a resort, horny as hell, killing guys while giving them a know you what, and having lots lesbian sex, nice girl, very sexuall film, lots of sex scenes, bad acting, and lina romay as the vampire, really sexy

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