Female Vampire
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Female Vampire or The Bare Breasted Countess is a 1973
French
erotic horror film
by Jesus Franco
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), a mute woman who needs sex
like a vampire
needs blood in order to stay alive forever. When new victims are found fatally drained of potency, forensic scientist Dr. Roberts consults his colleague, Dr. Orloff, who confirms that a vampire is responsible. Meanwhile, Irina is confronted by a poet who believes he is destined to become her lover and join her among the immortals.
aspect while some focus on the erotic aspect, some even including hardcore pornographic inserts.
Quentin Tarantino quoted the Countess in the title page of his script for From Dusk Till Dawn
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1973 in film
The year 1973 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. Blakely would later marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra....
French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
erotic horror film
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...
by Jesus Franco
Jesús Franco
Jesús "Jess" Franco is a Spanish film director, writer, cinematographer and actor. His career took off in 1961 with his cult classic The Awful Dr. Orloff, which received wide distribution in the United States and England...
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Plot
The plot revolves around Countess Irina von Karlstein (played by Lina RomayLina Romay
For Singer, See Lina Romay Lina Romay is a Spanish actress who often appears in films directed by her long-time companion Jesus Franco.-Movie career:...
), a mute woman who needs sex
Sexual intercourse
Sexual intercourse, also known as copulation or coitus, commonly refers to the act in which a male's penis enters a female's vagina for the purposes of sexual pleasure or reproduction. The entities may be of opposite sexes, or they may be hermaphroditic, as is the case with snails...
like a vampire
Vampire
Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person...
needs blood in order to stay alive forever. When new victims are found fatally drained of potency, forensic scientist Dr. Roberts consults his colleague, Dr. Orloff, who confirms that a vampire is responsible. Meanwhile, Irina is confronted by a poet who believes he is destined to become her lover and join her among the immortals.
Cast
- Lina RomayLina RomayFor Singer, See Lina Romay Lina Romay is a Spanish actress who often appears in films directed by her long-time companion Jesus Franco.-Movie career:...
... Countess Irina Karlstein - Jack TaylorJack Taylor (actor)Jack Taylor is an American actor. He first relocated to Mexico in the late 1950s/early 1960s, and later to Spain, where he has appeared in many films, mostly horror and cheesy exploitation pictures...
... Baron Von Rathony - Alice Arno ... Irina's servant
- Monica SwinnMonica SwinnMonica Swinn, is a Belgian actress, best known for her roles in French and European soft pornographic films of the 1970s, particularly those of the sexploitation and horror film genre...
... Princess de Rochefort (as Monica Swin) - Jesus FrancoJesús FrancoJesús "Jess" Franco is a Spanish film director, writer, cinematographer and actor. His career took off in 1961 with his cult classic The Awful Dr. Orloff, which received wide distribution in the United States and England...
... Dr. Roberts (as Jess Franck) - Luis Barboo ... Irina's Manservant
- Jean-Pierre BouyxouJean-Pierre BouyxouJean-Pierre Bouyxou is a French film critic, author, filmmaker and actor.-Career:He started his career as a writer in 1964 when his article was published in fanzines...
... Dr. Orloff - Andre Trottier ... The Count
- Raymond Hardy ... Hotel Masseur
- Anna Watican ... Anna, a journalist
Production
The movie's shooting title was La comtesse noire (The Dark Countess), but it has been released under several different titles, including Bare Breasted Countess, Erotikill, Female Vampire and Les Avaleuses ("The Swallowers") with running times ranging from just over 70 to over 100 minutes. Some versions focus on the horrorHorror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...
aspect while some focus on the erotic aspect, some even including hardcore pornographic inserts.
Quentin Tarantino quoted the Countess in the title page of his script for From Dusk Till Dawn
From Dusk Till Dawn
From Dusk till Dawn is a 1996 horror film directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino. The movie stars Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino and Juliette Lewis.-Plot:...
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