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Finals Week: 'Lips of Blood: Female sexuality and desire in the modern vampire film'
17 December 2009 3:24 PM, PST
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Lips of Blood: Female sexuality and desire in the modern vampire film By Brigid Cherry
The vampire in film has always been associated with elements of sexuality and morality. This association between vampirism and sexuality is related to the violation of taboos, but more importantly allows the identification of the other which is then repressed. Erotic and sexual characteristics are equated with vampirism, which for the female character - who is herself other and therefore subject to repression - means that to embrace the vampire is to embrace sexuality. For that, a forbidden act for the woman who is constrained by patriarchy to suppress her sexuality, she is punished - she is or becomes the vampire and dies, frequently staked through the heart. She is contrasted strongly and starkly with the heroine, the victim who remains coded as virginal, who is therefore pure and can be returned to normality
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Screen Queens: Hammer Horror
24 October 2009 12:21 PM, PDT
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Hi, Matt here with your weekly dose of Queer Cinema. With Halloween coming up, we turn our focus to horror.
Hammer Horror films are not truly part of the gay canon, and as a body of films they are conservative in their narrative arcs and messages. However, I've always been a huge fan. They are undeniably camp and always feature either subtle homoeroticism or full on Lesbian Vampires. For those unfamiliar with this horror subgenre, it is a collection of films produced by Hammer Film Studios from the late 50s to early 70s that mixed Gothic melodrama with exploitation horror. The studio was most famous for their vampire, mummy, Frankenstein, and cave girl pictures.
The vampire films stand head and shoulders above the rest. Hammer's Vampires went through two major cycles, the gothic Dracula films with Christopher Lee and the later sexploitation-y lesbian vampire films. The early Hammer films are the most respectable.
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Ingrid Pitt Pays Tribute To Boston Blackie
30 September 2009 7:13 AM, PDT
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Cinema Retro is very proud to welcome the lovely and talented actress Ingrid Pitt to our ranks of regular columnists. If you're a retro movie lover, Ingrid needs no introduction, thanks to her iconic appearances in films like The Wicker Man, The Vampire Lovers, Countess Dracula, Where Eagles Dare and The House That Dripped Blood. Ingrid will be sharing her stories about the making of her films, as well as essays about movies she loves. In her debut column, Ingrid puts the spotlight on the long-neglected Boston Blackie series.
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By Ingrid Pitt
“Enemy
to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend’
With a strap like that it is a
wonder that anyone turned out in the middle of World War 2 to watch the antics
of the leading man, Chester Morris, in the Boston Blackie series of
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Notes & Queeries: The Allure of the Lesbian Vampire
23 June 2009 9:02 PM, PDT
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Notes & Queeries is a monthly column that focuses on the personal side of pop culture for lesbians and bisexual women.
As any regular AfterEllen.com reader knows, the number of lesbian and bisexual female characters on scripted television in the United States tends to hover in the low single digits.
In movie theaters, we have even less to cheer for. Hollywood barely manages to make films with interesting women characters, much less lesbian or bisexual ones. Independent film, niche television programming and internet video are all doing their part to raise the visibility of lesbians/bisexual women in entertainment.
But the fact is, we also need mainstream visibility. And this year, for better or worse, our best hope for mainstream visibility may lie in the lesbian vampire.
This past spring, the dreadfully reviewed horror-comedy Lesbian Vampire Killers attempted to update the campy exploitation films of the 1970s such as Daughters
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Unjustly Forgotten Horror Movie of the Day: Hammer's 'Twins of Evil'
3 May 2009 11:48 AM, PDT
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With horror remakes the name of the game in the horror world these days, and original films becoming scarcer and scarcer at the box office, it seemed like a good time for ESplatter to look back in time at some of this memorable -- but sadly, unjustly forgotten -- splatter movies that remain unavailable in the U.S. after all these days. Today's title: "Twins of Evil."
Back in the 1970s, when Hammer Studios was struggling to compete with sex 'n death-filled grindhouse movies playing 42nd street theaters, they injected some nudity into their vampire offerings. The "Karnstein Trilogy" consisted of three films based on the Karnstein vampire story -- basically a lesbian vampire. The first of these was the Ingrid Pitt classic "The Vampire Lovers," still available on DVD today.
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