Daughters of Darkness (in France, Les Lèvres rouges, and in Belgium, Le Rouge aux lèvres) is a 1971 Belgian horror film, (spoken in English), directed by Harry Kümel. It is a highly stylized erotic vampire film, based on Carmilla, the classical story of lesbian vampirism by Sheridan le Fanu.
A recently married young couple, Stefan (John Karlen) and Valerie (Daniele Ouimet), are spending their honeymoon at a grand hotel by the Belgian seashore. As...
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Daughters of Darkness (in France, Les Lèvres rouges, and in Belgium, Le Rouge aux lèvres) is a 1971 Belgian horror film, (spoken in English), directed by Harry Kümel. It is a highly stylized erotic vampire film, based on Carmilla, the classical story of lesbian vampirism by Sheridan le Fanu.
A recently married young couple, Stefan (John Karlen) and Valerie (Daniele Ouimet), are spending their honeymoon at a grand hotel by the Belgian seashore. As it is off-season, the couple are alone in the hotel. Alone, that is, until one evening when a mysterious Hungarian countess, Elizabeth Báthory (Delphine Seyrig, superbly channelling Marlene Dietrich), arrives with her 'secretary' Ilona (Andrea Rau). The countess quickly becomes obsessed with the newlyweds, and the resulting interaction of the four people succumbs to sadism, abandonment and murder.
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