This year's Horrorfest started with
Frankenstein, now let's continue with vampires! DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS is a
Belgian/French/West German co-production from 1971. Everyone knows the
murderous virgin killer, Countess Elizabeth Bathory, died in 1614. What this
movie presupposes is… maybe she didn't?
Delphine Seyrig stars as the infamous
Countess, who has lived to contemporary times thanks to the fact that – you
guessed it – she's a vampire. When she arrives at a deserted hotel with her
super hot companion (Andrea Rau), she finds that the only other guests are a
newly married couple (John Karlen and Danielle Ouimet). She immediately becomes
fascinated with them, particularly the female half, and gets to work with a
prolonged seduction.
This is the kind of story where most movies
would get a ton of mileage out of casting a huge star as the Countess. After
all, she needs to have immediate presence and a bit of royalty about her.
Delphine Seyrig is not exactly a household name, though. That's why it's super
awesome that she totally pulls all this stuff off – she has a magnetic
presence, and you can totally see why she'd be able to dominate the other
couple at the hotel.
What's less understandable is what the
Countess sees in the couple in the first place. They're way less interesting than
the Countess and her companion. Speaking of her companion, the afore mentioned
beautiful Andrea Rau also has that star presence. The camera loves her. In
fact, the DVD box even called her the most beautiful woman to ever appear in a
film, or something along those lines. I don't know if that's true, strictly
speaking, but you have to admire the box art writers' enthusiasm.
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