I got a bit of a mixed feeling about this vampire flick. The vampires itself doesn't have fangs and the script itself is a bit weak surely concerning the plot. But still it is one that you must have seen.The two vampires are played by Marianne Morris (Fran) and Anulka Dziubinska (Miriam). The latter is the most famous one because she used to be a page 3 girl and appeared in playboy in 1972. Both have a lesbian relation and do go a lot in their nudies, Marianna goes more than Anulka did but it's also clearly to see that the director avoided to show pubic hair. On that part he succeeded mostly, here and there you can see a fraction of a second some pubic hair but he couldn't avoid it with the most famous name in this flick, Sally Faulkner (Harriet). She goes naked all the way and goes full frontal in one love scene towards the end of the flick. She's also the only actor here who really made it into the British scene and appeared in a lot of series. The other actors only acted for a few years around the seventies and early eighties. Karl Lanchbury (Rupert) maybe recognized by some due earlier attempts to be in horror flicks like Scream...And Die (1974) also from the same director.The director itself, José Ramon Larraz, does ring a bell with exploitation and drive-in geeks. But this is his most famous flick for the usual viewer but Los Ritos Sexuales Del Diablo (Black Candles) (1982) was also a hard to get flick, it is now available on region 1 DVD on a grindhouse compilation together with Evil Eye.Be sure to catch the full uncut version on Anchor Bay. There isn't that much of red stuff in it but the atmosphere and acting made this flick still worth watching. Not an usual way to tell a vampire story but it do offers something towards the scene. Gore 0/5 Nudity 2,5/5 Effects 0/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

I watched this again as it is on the box of blood I bought a few years back. I bought the set mainly to get this movie and I am glad I did. I watched this once at Dead by dawn on the big screen about ten years back and thought it was beautifully shot but did not really like it. Then I watched it the next year at Harvey Fenton's ten years of Terror festival. I liked the nudity but could not really get into the movie.So I sat down to day after I had finished watching Die Screaming Marianne and Frightmare to get into this movie again. I am glad I did its superb. The location is fab and so British, the photography is stunning. Some of the early morning shots made me want to walk through those gardens.Sally Faulkner, what a babe, I was thinking looking at her. I just wish I could meet someone as pretty as her. She is a superb actress and really brings the movie together with the great busy body nature. Also she is so sexy through out. So much so I wish she had been one of the vampires if you know what I mean!The vampires themselves were great. Evil and beautiful all at the same time. It was wonderful to see the amount of gore in this movie. Also it is set in the period was titillation movies were taking the country by storm and it does this with avengance but still keeps the horror intact. Pity the makers of the rather plain virgin witch could not have followed suit.

finally got down to watching this film after seeing the interesting cover shot at a video shop and to say the least i enjoyed it. a rather intriguing take on vampires this time involving two women who are lovers and seem to inhabit a seemingly abandoned castle or estate along the desert English countryside. while the storyline and plot is rather slow paced, i did however, enjoy the lovely scenery. the two lead actresses anulka and marianne morris are attractive and easy on the eyes throughout the film and it is easy to see how they can lure and seduce their victims. however,the extremely gory and graphic death scenes were quite shocking even for me and i thought were un-necessary. over-all it was a well shot and played out film and i'd recommend it to anyone interested in the genre.

1974's "Vampyres" is a British film directed by a Spaniard and is one of the best pictures in the lesbian vampire subgenre that I have ever seen. (Granted, I've always been a, um, sucker for this particular kind of film!) Here, sapphic lovers Fran (Marianne Morris) and Miriam (May '73 Playboy Playmate Anulka Dziubinska) are gunned down and murdered the first time we meet them. For some reason never explained, they return to the land of the living as atypical vampires, in that they first slice their victims with knives and glass slivers before chowing down. During the film, we see some typical days in their lives, posing as hitchhikers on lonely country roads and bringing men back to their crumbling manse for some sex play and bloodletting, whilst a young camping couple on their property observes them and grows increasingly suspicious. The film, all levity aside, strikes this viewer as a minor masterpiece of horror. It is genuinely erotic, disturbing, violent, often shocking, well acted down to the smallest parts, and quite merciless. The film is also deliberately paced, with not much in the way of story other than Fran and Miriam luring a series of men into their web, but director Jose Ramon Larraz has directed his picture for maximum atmosphere, and that creepy atmosphere is just delicious. Indeed, the sight of our two caped gals walking through a churchyard cemetery on a misty morning is a thing of great and morbid beauty. And these gals may be the most voracious vampires ever shown on film, sucking their drink of choice from whatever lacerated gash is most convenient; they are like sharks or some other wild beast in their frenzy; truly a horror to behold, even though they are fangless. Kudos also to Murray Brown, playing a dude who stays at the gals' house a few days too long (to the point of total anemia, I'd say!), as well as to James Clarke for his unmelodic, unobtrusive yet highly effective score. This DVD, by the way, from Blue Underground, looks just gorgeous, as do Marianne and Anulka 30+ years later in their very informative, modern-day interview extra. Wonder how they stayed so well preserved....