About the only thing to praise in Daughters is the way Seyrig looks: she is stunning in soft focus, chiffon, and egret. The dialogue and plot demands are unsurmountable burdens even for an actress as accomplished as she is. [01 Jul 1971, p.51]
Daughters of Darkness(Les lèvres rouges)
✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ Read critic reviews
Belgium, France, West Germany · 1971
Rated R · 1h 37m
Director Harry Kümel
Starring Delphine Seyrig, John Karlen, Danielle Ouimet, Andrea Rau
Genre Horror, Thriller
Add to Watchlist
Please login to add films to your watchlist.
In this mesmerizing thriller, international icon Delphine Seyrig stars as Elizabeth Bathory, an ageless countess with a beautiful young companion. But when the two women seduce a troubled newlywed couple, they unleash a frenzy of violence and depraved desire that shocked audiences worldwide.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
Slant Magazine by Eric Henderson
Kümel’s impulse to remain on the waning edge of eroticism turns what could’ve been another cheap thrill into a genuinely unsettling examination of the human race’s most happily sanctioned form of vampirism: man-woman couplings.
Strikingly shot and notable for Seyrig's monstrous, Dietrich-like character, Daughters is a psychosexual horror film that's gripping almost up to the very end.
Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
Although slowly paced, it is always stunning to look at -- decadent and perverse in that certain Eurotrashy way.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
A fairly stylish adult vampire movie, and Delphine Seyrig (last seen wandering about a resort hotel in Last Year at Marienbad) is a most satisfactory vampire.
This psychologically dense, genuinely erotic vampire thriller lacks fangs, but it has plenty of bite.
Users who liked this film also liked
Dead Alive
(Braindead)
A young man tries to contain a zombie outbreak caused by a Sumatran rat-monkey.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- New Zealand • 1992
- Director Peter Jackson
- Cast Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin, Brenda Kendall, Stuart Devenie
- Genre Comedy, Horror
- Available on Amazon Video
How to Irritate People
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1969
- Director Ian Fordyce
- Cast John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Connie Booth, Gillian Lind
- Genre Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Sappho
(Сафо)
Love has no rules.
- ✭ ✭
- Ukraine • 2008
- Director Robert Crombie
- Cast Avalon Barrie, Todd Soley, Lyudmila Shiryaeva, Bogdan Stupka, Elissaios Vlachos, Vassilis Psychogiopoulos
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Amazon Video
Hannie Caulder
The first lady gunfighter.
- ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1971
- Director Burt Kennedy
- Cast Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam, Strother Martin, Christopher Lee
- Genre Drama, Western, Crime
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Dracula A.D. 1972
The Count is back, with an eye for London's hotpants . . . and a taste for everything
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1972
- Director Alan Gibson
- Cast Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Christopher Neame, Michael Coles, Marsha Hunt
- Genre Horror
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Blue Spring
(青い春)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2001
- Director Toshiaki Toyoda
- Cast Ryuhei Matsuda, Hirofumi Arai, Sousuke Takaoka, Yusuke Oshiba, Yuta Yamazaki, Shugo Oshinari
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Chinese Roulette
(Chinesisches Roulette)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- West Germany, France • 1976
- Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Cast Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira, Ulli Lommel, Alexander Allerson, Volker Spengler
- Genre Thriller, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess
(ずべ公番長 ざんげの値打ちもない)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1971
- Director Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
- Cast Reiko Oshida, Junzaburō Ban, Nobuo Kaneko, Yumiko Katayama, Yukie Kagawa, Ichirô Nakatani
- Genre Action, Crime
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The 10th Victim
(La decima vittima)
It's the 21st century and they have a licence to kill.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1965
- Director Elio Petri
- Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli, Salvo Randone, Massimo Serato, Milo Quesada
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Night Flight Plus, FilmBox+, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Plex, Plex Channel
The Mongols
(مغولها)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 1973
- Director Parviz Kimiavi
- Cast Fahimeh Rastegar, Parviz Kimiavi, Agha Seyed ali Mirza Sajadi, Ali Mirza, Edris Chamani, Darvish Abbas
- Genre History, Drama, Adventure
- Available on No streaming locations found.