Vampire Lesbos

Ewa Stromberg, Soledad Miranda

Spain 89 mins Color 1970

An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood. Dir. Jesus Franco's 1970 VAMPYROS LESBOS (inexplicably titled above ^El Signo del vampiro^) is the masterpiece of all Euro-exploitation genres. You can swoon over the Greenaway lighting in SUSPIRIA; you can thrill to the comic-book metaphysics of THE BEYOND; a few solitary freaks might smack their chops over CANNIBAL FEROX. But Franco's fever-dreamy Z movie, a dusted-out collage of St. Tropez glamour, poisonous softcore sex, platter-party lounge music gone Satanic, and more crazy zooms than the entire body of martial-arts movies combined.