Women can do it too
Vampirism feat Feminism
Erzsebet Báthory steps into Vlad the Impaler's shoes
There is a century between them, and approximately 350 km, both proclaimed mass murderers, but he is a national treasure, and she is just a sadist.
  • Erzsebet Báthory
    Hungary, 1560 — 1614
  • Vlad the Impaler
    Romania, 1428 — 1476
  • Rumors declare 200 to 2000 women were slaughtered, with 80 victims confirmed during the trial.
  • Rumors declare 500 to 20,000 impaled persons, with only 10 confirmed.
  • Báthory has been labeled by Guinness World Records as the most prolific female murderer, though the number of her victims is debated.
  • Since the middle of the 19th century, Romanian historians have treated Vlad as one of the greatest Romanian rulers, emphasizing his fight for the independence of the Romanian lands. Even Vlad's acts of cruelty were often represented as rational acts serving national interest.
Illustration by D.H. Friston from Carmilla's first publication in The Dark Blue magazine in 1872.
Quod licet Jovi, non licet bovi
What is permissible for Jupiter is not permissible for a cow.
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The lesbian vampire is more than simply a negative stereotype. She is a complex and ambiguous figure, at once an image of death and an object of desire, drawing on profound subconscious fears that the living have toward the dead and that men have toward women, while serving as a focus for repressed fantasies. The generic vampire image both expresses and represses sexuality, but the lesbian vampire especially operates in the sexual rather than the supernatural realm.
— Andrea Weiss, american independent documentary filmmaker
Vampyr (1932)
The first adaptation of Carmilla and the first sound vampire film.
Marguerite Chopin
Delphine Seyrig in
Daughters of Darkness (1971)
Belgian adaptation of Carmilla. In English but with no native-speaking actors.
  • Countess Elizabeth
In 1971, Delphine Seyrig signed the Manifesto of the 343, publicly declaring she had had an illegal abortion.
Ladies first
Les Vampires
A 1915 French series Les Vampires, came to the public screen seven years before Nosferatu.
Irma Vep
Shooting French classics
  • Irma Vep
    1996
    Director Olivier Assayas
  • Irma Vep
    2022
    Creator Olivier Assayas
bram stocker's
Snake craves for snack
The Lair of The White Worm, 1911 and 1988
Experiment on fangs' length and visual effects, featuring Hugh Grant.
God shave the Queen
Like father, like Dracula's Daughter
The first vampire film with a female protagonist, 1939.
1980
Miriam & Sarah (Hunger)
Egyptian Carmilla moves to New York
Hunger 1983
More Noir
Vampira
Plan 9 from outer space, 1959
Ruth
The Last Man on Earth, 1964
1995
The Addiction
Existential LGBT drama
Kathleen
Casanova
sister of dracula
Nadja (1994)
Featuring David Lynch
— In Europe, it's hard to find food after ten o'clock, even in Paris or Berlin. Moscow, of course, it's impossible.
iran
The Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
skates, to be more specific
Feed on emotions
They need your life force, soul, and energy
Kind of the vampires, even the regular vampires hate!
Theda Bara the "Vamp"
A Fool There Was (1915)
Rose the Hat
Doctor Sleep
Evie Russel
What We Do in The Shadows
Sci-Fi
Suckers
from outer space
Queen of Blood
1966
1985
LIFEFORCE
Naked chick from space
Chupasangres
Santanico Pandemonium
(From Dusk Till Dawn, 1996)
Regine
(Fright Night II, 1988)
vampires of color
From blaxploitation to cult films & series.
Katrina
Vamp 1986
Vanessa
Blade 1998
Akasha
Queen Of Damned 2002
Tara
True Blood 2008
South Korean Vampiress
Tae-ju,
Thirst, 2009
Guns, swords, & vampires
so bad it's good
Hemophagues from the dystopian future
Ultraviolet, 2006
License to kill
Vampiress in latex
Underworld, 2003
girls next door
American honeys
So good, you will offer them your own blood without hesitation.
Star (aka Wendy Darling)
The Lost Boys, 1987
Amy (aka mom)
Fright Night 1985
Mae
Near Dark 1987
Marie
Innocent Blood 1992
Color grading & Rareness
Redhead (Once and forever)
Sexy evil should be noticed from a distance
1922 Kodachrome Film Test
Vamp 1986
True Blood 2008
Interview With The Vampire 1994
Byzantium 2012
True Blood 2008
Twilight 2008
The Fearless Vampire Killers, 1945
for decades
Dracula's Brides
Tits, tunics, preferably no dialogues
Dracula, 1931
Horror of Dracula, 1958
Bram Stocker's Dracula, 1992
Van Helsing, 2004
only beauty left alive
Pure Aesthetics
Off limits.
1992
Lucy Westenra
Bram Stocker's Dracula
Only Lovers Left Alive, 2013
Eve & Ava
Blood Sisters
Blood Mothers
She'll give you a life
Or seduce you
Once Bitten, 1985
Underage vampires
Not that PG-13
Czech Republic
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
You'll wonder!
Vampyros Lesbos 1971
destine
Thirst (1979)
A great movie where feminism failed.
Made on
Tilda