The Velvet Vampire (1971)
AKA: Cemetery Girls
Film details
View on IMDb ↗CastMichael Blodgett, Sherry Miles, Celeste Yarnall, Gene Shane, Jerry Daniels, Sandy Ward, Paul Prokop, Chris Woodley, Robert Tessier
Review
"Given the genre (horror) and the budget (extremely low), it may seem perverse to say that Stephanie Rothman's 1971 film is among the best women's films ever made, but so it is—a highly intelligent, deftly poetic reimagining of the vampire myth, with the theme of fatal sexuality transferred to a female character. The vampire is neither an aggressor nor a seductress, but an abstract figure of polymorphous sensuality: her "victims" choose her, and they range from a would-be rapist to a liberated (and wittily parodied) southern California couple." - Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Ranking history
The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films
EDITIONS IN TOP 1,0000
HIGHEST#1,2422019
LOWEST#2,4032021
Top 1,000Outside Top 1,000Missing ranking data
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Hidden Horrors
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