Review of Vampyres

Vampyres (1974)
5/10
Great idea (partially) wasted
27 December 2008
Warning: Spoilers
A 1970's British film about two bisexual vampires (Marianne Morris and Anulka Dziubinska) who live in old mansion preying victims... Sounds great? Actually, it is uneven mix of attractive settings (good, good), siren-like female vampires (yai!), crude and laughable sex scenes (blah) and some less than elegant killing scenes (more blah). OK, it is better than VAMPIRES, John Carpenter's helming of Mark Jacoby's horrible script, but celebrated many for it's un-Hammer-like approach of blood-sucking lesbian nudity, my problem (as a vampire fan who does not like porn) is exactly that - it's vampire film with too little traditional vampire fun. Vampyres are not bad, but I will take elegant and atmospheric Hammer fun over this any day.
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