Daughter of Dracula (1972) [Blu-ray]

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In the early 1970s, cult filmmaker Jess Franco inspired by the Hammer horror films being made in the UK revisited the iconic monsters of yesteryear, placing them in the castles and crypts of the Spanish countryside, and bracketing the thrills with scenes of frank eroticism. Daughter of Dracula was inspired by Sheridan LeFanu s Carmilla (which was also the source of Hammer s lesbian vampire trilogy), but as one might expect, Franco s version was unlike any treatment the story had yet received. When the nude body of a murdered woman washes onto the beach, a police inspector (Alberto Dalbés) and a reporter (Fernando Bilbao) focus their attention on the castle of Count Max Karlstein (composer Daniel White) and his niece (Britt Nichols, The Demons), a beautiful woman who appears to be wrestling with an ancestral curse. Bonus Features: English Subtitles, Audio commentary by film historian Tim Lucas, Alternate safe footage (less sexually explicit), Original heatrical trailer Review: it won't work in west yorkshire - it doesn't work in west Yorkshire Review: Boring - Absolutely awful film, dull and boring. I am a fan of Jess Franco but not sure what he was thinking here! How can you go wrong with the gorgeous Britt Nichols and Anne Libert? Quite easily here! This was neither horror or erotic. Barely any blood is shown and it was by no means erotic; it wasn't even sexy. Very tame nudity and an absolutely annoying habit of blurring the focus every 5 minutes. And that ending? Who was in the second coffin that was set alight? We never see. I'd stick to the Hammer films this was trying to mimic badly or better still Jose Larraz's Vampyres. Far superior