Daughters of Darkness

Original title: Les lèvres rouges

1971
X
1h 27m

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While passing through a vacation resort, a newlywed couple encounters a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide.While passing through a vacation resort, a newlywed couple encounters a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide.While passing through a vacation resort, a newlywed couple encounters a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide.

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Trivia
During filming, director Harry Kümel hit actress Danielle Ouimet during a dispute. Actor John Karlen was so infuriated by this behavior that he punched Kumel in the face. The atmosphere on the set was understandably tense afterwards.

Goofs
When Ilona is lying on the bathroom floor, bikini marks are visible. Vampires are not supposed to have tan lines.

Quotes
Countess Bathory: Love is stronger than death... even than life.

Alternate versions
The original U.S. theatrical release was cut by approximately 12 minutes to obtain an R-rating, and features a slightly different opening credits sequence in which Lainie Cooke (not Delphine Seyrig as sometimes rumored) sings over the main theme of the film. This sequence features a stylized title logo (the same as that on the U.S. posters), while the rest of the credits use a font that is more formal and less bold compared to the original version. After being released on Canadian and American VHS (where it was retitled "Children of the Night"), the U.S. version was eventually replaced in circulation by the uncut version in the 1990s, although its title sequence is presented among the special features of Blue Underground's 2020 4K Blu-ray release of the film.

Connections
Edited into Rob Zombie: Living Dead Girl (1999)

Soundtracks
Daughters of Darkness
Written and Performed by François de Roubaix
Sung by Lainie Cooke
Lyrics by Terence Stockdale

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7/10

erotic and unusual vampire flick

Finally it became available, the director's cut of this 40 year old vampire flick. The weirdness is that it doesn't contain real vampires like you know them. You never see any fangs but it's the atmosphere that keep you attracted to the teevee. The other part that is funny for me is that all the places shown I have seen them, easily to explain, I grow up in Ostend in the seventies. But what an excellent flick this is, even without the gore and almost without th red stuff. There is a lot of nudity but it never becomes gratuitous. It is also strange that a Flemish director (Harry Kumel) was able to get big names, Delphine Seyrig was an icon at that time and even the others were well known then. The quality available on the Blue Underground DVD is excellent, even the sound is great, no hiss or whatsoever. It is a beauty to see and remembering that it was made without a big budget. It is indeed as stated on the sleeve erotic and unusual.