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A pair of women lure passers-by to their countryside mansion to feed on them to satisfy their need for blood.A pair of women lure passers-by to their countryside mansion to feed on them to satisfy their need for blood.A pair of women lure passers-by to their countryside mansion to feed on them to satisfy their need for blood.
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- Writers
- Diana Daubeney
- José Ramón Larraz(uncredited)
- Thomas Owen(uncredited)
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- TriviaThe house is Oakley Court, used for exteriors in several Hammer films, and for The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). It was later turned into a luxury hotel.
- GoofsIn the opening sequence, before the audience knows any character names, actor Murray Brown is seen murdering 2 naked women, actresses Marianne Morris and Anulka, in bed together. The real estate agent in the final sequence refers to this as having occurred 40 years before the present action of the film. but vampires cannot be killed by bullets, and Brown doesn't appear to have aged at all in that time.
- Alternate versionsThe original UK cinema version was heavily cut by around 3 minutes by the BBFC and the 1989 video was pre-cut but lost a further 26 secs with edits to a lesbian shower scene, sexual thrusting during the sex scene between Fran & John, the stabbing of Rupert, blood being licked from John's arm wound, closeups of Fran & Miriam's naked bloody bodies in the pre-credit scene, and the stripping and stabbing of Harriet in the cellar. The cuts were fully waived for the 2003 UK Anchor Bay DVD.
- ConnectionsEdited into FrightMare Theater: Vampyres (2018)
- SoundtracksVampyres (Main Title)
Written by James Kenelm Clarke (as James Clarke)
Performed by James Clarke Orchestra
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One of the more underrated (and under-SEEN) vampire pics
The American Cinemateque gave a hundred or so lucky viewers the opportunity to watch what is likely to be the only surviving 35MM print of this film. Having seen dozens and dozens of Vampire-themed pictures, VAMPYRES certainly rates as one of the better little-seen titles in the sub-genre. Erotic, atmospheric and genuinely creepy, this film deserves fuller treatment in genre cinema studies. It is certainly the most 'oral' of all vampire pictures (you'll fully comprehend what I mean when you see it). A perfect double bill with the similarly themed (and even better) DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS.
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- gortx
- Aug 27, 2000
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