Female Vampire

Female Vampire
Female Vampire
	DVD cover
Directed by	Jesús Franco
Screenplay by	Jesús Franco
Produced by	Marius Lesoeur
Starring	Lina Romay; Jack Taylor; Alice Arno; Monica Swinn; Jean-Pierre Bouyxou;
Cinematography	Jesús Franco
Edited by	Jesús Franco; Ramon Ardid;
Music by	Daniel White
Production; companies	Brux International Pictures; Les Films Marc;
Release date	May 7, 1975;
Countries	Belgium; France;

Female Vampire (a.k.a. The Bare-Breasted Countess) is a horror film written, directed, and co-edited by Jesús Franco.^[1] It was produced in 1973, but was only theatrically distributed in 1975.^[2] The film is set in Madeira and stars actress Lina Romay as Irina von Karlstein, a vampire who has sex with both male and female victims. In an unusual variation of the vampire myth, Karlstein performs oral sex on her victims until they die, draining them of their sexual fluids.^[3]

Three versions of the film were shot: straight horror, horror mixed with sex, and a hardcore pornography version. Franco's original title for the film was The Bare Breasted Countess, but it was released under many different titles over the years. To assuage Franco, the film was screened as The Bare Breasted Countess at the 2009 Fantastic Fest in the United States, which Franco attended as guest of honor. The film's title was inexplicably changed to Female Vampire for its DVD release.

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^ Thrower, Stephen; Grainger, Julian (2015). Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco. Strange Attractor Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-907222-31-3.
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[2] Thrower, Stephen; Grainger, Julian (2015). Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco. Strange Attractor Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-907222-31-3.

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