Arguably one of the most prolific genre filmmakers maestro, Jesús Franco's prodigious output didn't always allow for conspicuous visual quality. The inimitable Grindhouse god's luridly girl-stuffed Gothic concoctions always held a powerful fascination, Franco's innate facility to fervidly fuse sex and horror remains unrivalled. While 'Vampyres Lesbos' & 'Female Vampire' are quite rightly cherished, 'Dracula's Daughter' is rarely mentioned without pronounced sarcasm. Flawed, but still fitfully fabulous, Dracula's Daughter's headier ingredients do much to successfully distract one from the narrative incongruities! Ostensibly a scintillating admixture of, Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker and the more outre qualities of Italian Horror comics (Fumetti), the very breast of 'Dracula's Daughter' is 100% unfiltered, Jesús Franco genius!
The ravishingly beautiful, Luisa Karlstein(Carmen Yazalde) returns to her lavish ancestral home at the behest of her dying mother, only to eerily discover that the Karlstein family are vampires, and that his bloody nibs himself, Count Dracula (Howard Vernon) remains dankly ensconced in the family crypt! Deftly melding garish Giallo tropes and fleshly Gothic exotica, Jesús Franco wastes little time getting buxom, Luisa sensually entwined with her exquisite beau, the no less delectable, Karine (Anne Libert). An uncommonly vivid beauty, Libert's sublime slender figure, luxuriously plentiful dark tresses and hypnotic, deep-almond eyes prove wholly irresistible. A beguilingly strange, splendidly salacious symphony of sapphic saturnalia, Franco's hot-blooded 'Dracula's Daughter' remains one of the Spanish sensualist's most satisfyingly voyeuristic vampire treats!
The ravishingly beautiful, Luisa Karlstein(Carmen Yazalde) returns to her lavish ancestral home at the behest of her dying mother, only to eerily discover that the Karlstein family are vampires, and that his bloody nibs himself, Count Dracula (Howard Vernon) remains dankly ensconced in the family crypt! Deftly melding garish Giallo tropes and fleshly Gothic exotica, Jesús Franco wastes little time getting buxom, Luisa sensually entwined with her exquisite beau, the no less delectable, Karine (Anne Libert). An uncommonly vivid beauty, Libert's sublime slender figure, luxuriously plentiful dark tresses and hypnotic, deep-almond eyes prove wholly irresistible. A beguilingly strange, splendidly salacious symphony of sapphic saturnalia, Franco's hot-blooded 'Dracula's Daughter' remains one of the Spanish sensualist's most satisfyingly voyeuristic vampire treats!