Female Vampire (1973)

That was an excellent one.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

A beautiful female vampire (Lina Romay) lures men to their doom.Depending on which version you watch, you might get a more or less pornographic film with horror themes or a horror film with some sexual themes. I watched the Netflix version, which seems to be somewhere in the middle, or perhaps leaning towards porn (there were naked men and women within the first ten minutes, and a simulated sexual encounter). Not at all what I expected, and frankly it disappoints me that this version is not more horror.Concerning the sexual scenes, Franco has said, "There was a need to show it, like you must show how Dracula sucks his blood, you need to show how this Countess sucks the semen." I am not sure if I buy that.

A vampire countess and her various sexual conquests, drains the life force from her victims of passion. Countess Irina Karlstein(Lina Romay)often feeds from her male suitors as they are ejaculating! The film opens the possibility of the vampire countess and a proposed rendezvous with a poet named Baron Von Rathony(Jack Taylor)..Franco seems to be building to this meeting(..perhaps a love affair is in the future for these two)as Rathony often hears the fluttering of bat wings in the sky from the patio of his palatial cottage overlooking a sea.Despite what the title says, this flick doesn't follow the usual vampire traits..there isn't bloodletting(..in the typical sense, although there's a scene of whipping that sheds little cuts of blood)and Lina certainly doesn't look like your usual member of the undead.Lina dives in no-holds-barred, willing to bend over backwards for director Franco as she is pretty much naked the entire film having graphic sexual sequences with men and women often rather explicitly. To be honest, the film is less a horror film than a porno flick. Franco's camera ravishes Lina's body, even closing in on Romay's vagina as she spreads her legs teasingly. Whether writhing in passion on her bed(..making good use of her bed post)or bathing with erotic bliss in a bathtub of bloody water, Lina certainly is uninhibited and willing to go the distance. Not shy either is Taylor and other male actors unafraid to show their naughty bits as well. Not for the easily offended. As expected, the film often features jazz as background music often removing the slightest bit of tension(..although, I feel his films often are so coldly presented one feels little tension to begin with). The procedural with detective Franco on the case to prove Lina's involvement with the vampire-type homicides seems uninspired. My favorite scene has Lina's car driving around curves with this silver bat ornament adorning her car hood with bat wings that flap with the wind.My rating is more towards it as a horror film. I think it merely uses the idea of a vampire using lust as her way of surviving. I do think it'll work for those seeking other forms of entertainment.

What an excellent film! Try not to dig too deep but this is classic eurotrash and when you've been away from eurotrash for a while you'll need a stunner like this to remind you how fantastic it can be. Jess Franco has let us down occasionally in the past, but this must surely be his masterpiece. Trust no American issues as they prefer violence to sex and edit accordingly. Don't analyse the plot because you'll miss the point. Beautifully shot by Joan Vincent, this is serious erect-nipple vampirism, with all the longing and the loneliness that goes with belonging to the undead...although there are not many people who look as alive as Lina Romay does in this movie. Absolutely excellent and for a change coherent. Wistful, sexy, hypereal. Genuinely an extraordinary movie.

A meandering dull-fest directed by the notorious Jess Franco, and "starring" Lina Romay as a mostly nude vampiress who sucks the life out of men and women "orally," if you get what I'm driving at. Other than this, there isn't much in the way of a story. It's typically botched by Franco's lazy direction and bad camera-work... shots are often out of focus and Madame Romay bumps into the camera at one point! Lina is attractive enough physically, but here she presents no sensuality, no sex appeal, no magnetism beyond her looks. This functions more as a porn film and that's about the only reason worth looking - and even that gets boring real fast. 0 out of ****