Daughters of Darkness
Going only off the title, I thought Daughters of Darkness was going to be a typical early 1970s vampire movie, featuring breasty young goths with prosthetic teeth wafting around in chiffon. My prejudices. I was partly right – it is from the early 1970s, and it is about vampires of a sort. There are breasts too. But the tone is not the cartoon gothic of many a Hammer horror film. Instead this Belgian cult item goes in for a sort of chilly giallo – Northern Europe just isn’t as warm-toned as Italy. It’s all set in an out-of-season hotel in the Belgian port of Ostend, where a rich young man and his new … Read more