Blood of the Tribades (2016)
A vampire named Bathor turned an entire village to vampires, stuck around long enough to teach them to survive, and then promised to return in 2000 years after conquering the rest of the continent. The only problem with this plan is that the vampires, although immortal, have only a limited capacity for memory. As time passes, they forget their utopian society and led by the totalitarian zealot Grando, become paranoid, superstitious fundamentalists, splitting their society by race and gender lines, seeking to destroy those who are deemed sinful. Long-forgotten lovers Élisabeth and Fantine find that, with the help of those who were banished in the past, it is their fate to piece together the past and help preserve the little that remains before Bathor’s impending return.
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Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
See it. See it soon. A wonderful piece of connoisseur-trash-art-core. It is hard to capture the feeling of an era and a specific style of filmmaking, but the team behind "Blood of the Tribades" manages to re-create and expand the genre of 1970s lesbian vampire film. Hooray! Blood! Sex! History! Gender theory!
The movie begins decent enough with a summary of the backstory through an interesting monologue and moves directly into a scene full of nudity and some mild gore. Sounds like what an independent horror movie should be, right?Soon after, they try to develop the story and it gets muddled and lost and loses focus. The movie focuses too much on the poorly- written script and begins to lose anyone who watches for the action, gore, or odd nature of indie horror. The blu ray transfer looks nice, and the movie is well made, but the positive aspects end there. For much of the movie, we have to sit through long, drawn-out scenes of people walking slowly in cloaks from point A to B and delivering painful, biblical dialogue. I know they tried to mimic older Euro vampire films, but this does not have the gritty, evil feel those movies had. Overall, a very poor effort all around after a few promising scenes at the beginning. I had tot urn it off about an hour and I rarely ever have to do that.
This is no doubt, a very weird movie that pays homage to Rollin, Franco, Vadim, and other Euro outcast cinema. I love how it mixes a little of the melodrama of Hammer in as well. The story without spoilers...not that it matters a whole lot for a movie like this is that these women vampires have forgotten everything and they are being hunted by men for plaguing them, except they aren't actually doing it. The leader of the men is a demagogue using religion and political pressure to blame everyone he can. Sound familiar? This movie is basically like Hitler fights the vampires and they rise up against him. Except it is not Hitler, it's Grando. And wow is Seth Chatfield's over- the-top performance as Hitler, I mean Grando, really fun and solid! The two lead women are exceptional as well. Also, so many penises. 9/10 because I wanted it to be longer. Not the penises. The movie.
The overall tone of the film is set within the first few minutes. What you see is what you get. It's a throwback film in many ways to the 70s Euro art-house lesbian vampire genre. The setting is colorful and captivating - and coupled with the terrific score, they work to really set the mood and atmosphere. It's obvious the cast and crew worked hard to create a fully-realized world that would resonate with fans of the genre. So, if you're a fan of indie films, vampires, lesbians, Hammer Films horror, 70s era films - or just looking for something competent, refreshing, and containing scenes of blood and sensual sexiness - go ahead and settle in, sit back, and give it a whirl.