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Lesbian vampire

Index Lesbian vampire

Lesbian vampirism is a trope in 20th-century exploitation film and literature that has its roots in Joseph Sheridan le Fanu's novella Carmilla (1872) about the love of a female vampire (the title character) for a young woman (the narrator): Sometimes after an hour of apathy, my strange and beautiful companion would take my hand and hold it with a fond pressure, renewed again and again; blushing softly, gazing in my face with languid and burning eyes, and breathing so fast that her dress rose and fell with the tumultuous respiration. [1]

59 relations: Blood and Roses, British Board of Film Classification, Carmilla, Charles Busch, Comedy, Countess Dracula, Daughters of Darkness, Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible, Dracula's Daughter, Elfriede Jelinek, Elizabeth Báthory, Elizabeth Báthory in popular culture, Eternal (film), Exploitation film, Genre, Gloria Holden, Hammer Film Productions, Harry Kümel, Illness or Modern Women, Immoral Tales (film), Ingrid Pitt, Jackie Brown, Jesús Franco, Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, Jewelle Gomez, Jorge Grau, Lambda Literary Award, Lesbian, Lesbian Vampire Killers, Lesbos, LGBT themes in horror fiction, LGBT themes in speculative fiction, Lucha libre, Lust for a Vampire, Madeleine Collinson, Madeline Smith, Mary Collinson, Mil Mascaras vs. the Aztec Mummy, Off-Broadway, Playboy, Quentin Tarantino, Razor Blade Smile, Roger Vadim, Sheridan Le Fanu, Slavery in Africa, Taboo, The Celluloid Closet, The Karnstein Trilogy, The Vampire Lovers, Tracey Wigginton, ..., Trope (literature), Twin, Twins of Evil, Vampire, Vampire films, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Vampyros Lesbos, Vrykolakas, Walerian Borowczyk. Expand index (9 more) »

Blood and Roses

Blood and Roses (lit) is a horror film directed by Roger Vadim.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organization, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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Carmilla

Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Irish author, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years.

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Charles Busch

Charles Louis Busch (born August 23, 1954) is an American actor, screenwriter, playwright and female impersonator, known for his appearances on stage in his own camp style plays and in film and television.

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Comedy

In a modern sense, comedy (from the κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment.

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Countess Dracula

Countess Dracula is a 1971 British Hammer horror film based on the legends surrounding the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory.

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Daughters of Darkness

Daughters of Darkness (in France, Les Lèvres Rouges, in Belgium, Le Rouge aux Lèvres (the former literally translated as The Red Lips and the latter as The Red on the Lips) and in the Netherlands, Dorst Naar Bloed (meaning Blood Thirst) is a 1971 Belgian horror film (with dialogue in English), directed by Harry Kümel. It is an erotic vampire film.

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Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible

Dr Terrible's House of Horrible is a British comedy-horror anthology series created by Graham Duff, who co-wrote the series with Steve Coogan.

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Dracula's Daughter

Dracula's Daughter is a 1936 American vampire horror film produced by Universal Pictures as a sequel to the 1931 film Dracula.

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Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek (born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist.

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Elizabeth Báthory

Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed (Báthory Erzsébet, Alžbeta Bátoriová; 7 August 1560 – 21 August 1614) was a Hungarian noblewoman and alleged murderer from the Báthory family of nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary, who owned land in the Kingdom of Hungary (now Hungary and Slovakia) and Transylvania (now Romania), which were areas of Habsburg monarchy.

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Elizabeth Báthory in popular culture

The influence of Countess Elizabeth Báthory in popular culture has been notable from the 18th century to the present day.

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Eternal (film)

Eternal is a 2004 film about sixteenth-century Countess Elizabeth Báthory "repeating her crimes in modern day Montreal".

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Exploitation film

An exploitation film is a film that attempts to succeed financially by exploiting current trends, niche genres, or lurid content.

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Genre

Genre is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time.

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Gloria Holden

Gloria Anna Holden (September 5, 1903 – March 22, 1991) was an English-born American film actress, best known for her role as Dracula's Daughter.

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Hammer Film Productions

Hammer Film Productions is a British film production company based in London.

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Harry Kümel

Harry Kümel (born 27 January 1940) is a Belgian film director.

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Illness or Modern Women

Illness or Modern Women is a play by the Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek.

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Immoral Tales (film)

Immoral Tales (Contes immoraux) is a 1973 French anthology film directed by Walerian Borowczyk.

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Ingrid Pitt

Ingrid Pitt (born Ingoushka Petrov; 21 November 193723 November 2010) was a Polish-British actress, author, and writer best known for her work in horror films of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Jackie Brown

Jackie Brown is a 1997 American crime thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.

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Jesús Franco

Jess Franco (born Jesús Franco Manera; 12 May 1930 – 2 April 2013) was a Spanish filmmaker, composer, and actor, best known for his stylish exploitation films, directing around 160 feature films.

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Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter is a 2001 cult film from Odessa Filmworks which deals with Jesus' modern-day struggle to protect the lesbians of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from vampires with the help of Mexican wrestler El Santo (based on El Santo, Enmascarado de Plata, and played by actor Jeff Moffet, who starred as El Santo in two other Odessa Filmworks productions).

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Jewelle Gomez

Jewelle Gomez (born September 11, 1948, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American author, poet, critic and playwright.

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Jorge Grau

Jorge Grau (born Jorge Grau Solá, 27 October 1930) is a Spanish director, scriptwriter, playwright and painter.

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Lambda Literary Award

Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the "Lammys", are awarded yearly by the U.S.-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes.

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Lesbian

A lesbian is a homosexual woman.

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Lesbian Vampire Killers

Lesbian Vampire Killers is a 2009 British comedy horror film written by Stewart Williams and Paul Hupfield, produced by Steve Clark-Hall and directed by Phil Claydon.

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Lesbos

Lesbos (Λέσβος), or Lezbolar in Turkish sometimes referred to as Mytilene after its capital, is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea.

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LGBT themes in horror fiction

LGBT themes in horror fiction, also known as queer horror, refers to sexuality in horror fiction that can often focus on LGBT characters and themes.

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LGBT themes in speculative fiction

LGBT themes in speculative fiction refer to the incorporation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) themes into science fiction, fantasy, horror fiction and related genres.

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Lucha libre

Lucha libre (meaning "freestyle wrestling" or literally translated as "free fight") is the term used in Mexico for professional wrestling.

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Lust for a Vampire

Lust For a Vampire (also known as Love for a Vampire or To Love a Vampire (the latter title was used on American television)) is a 1971 British Hammer Horror film directed by Jimmy Sangster, starring Yutte Stensgaard, Michael Johnston and Barbara Jefford.

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Madeleine Collinson

Madeleine Collinson (22 July 1952 – 14 August 2014) was a Maltese-British model and actress.

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Madeline Smith

Madeline Smith (born 2 August 1949) is an English actress.

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Mary Collinson

Mary Collinson (born 22 July 1952 in Malta) is a model and actress.

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Mil Mascaras vs. the Aztec Mummy

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Off-Broadway

An Off-Broadway theatre is any professional venue in Manhattan in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive.

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Playboy

Playboy is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine.

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Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American director, writer, and actor.

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Razor Blade Smile

Razor Blade Smile is a 1998 British vampire film written and directed by Jake West.

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Roger Vadim

Roger Vadim Plemiannikov (26 January 1928 – 11 February 2000) was a French screenwriter, film director and producer, as well as an author, artist and occasional actor.

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Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction.

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Slavery in Africa

Slavery has historically been widespread in Africa, and still continues today in some countries.

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Taboo

In any given society, a taboo is an implicit prohibition or strong discouragement against something (usually against an utterance or behavior) based on a cultural feeling that it is either too repulsive or dangerous, or, perhaps, too sacred for ordinary people.

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The Celluloid Closet

The Celluloid Closet is a 1995 American documentary film directed and written by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.

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The Karnstein Trilogy

The Karnstein Trilogy of vampire films were produced by Hammer Films, and were notable at the time for being somewhat daring in explicitly depicting lesbian themes.

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The Vampire Lovers

The Vampire Lovers is a 1970 British-American gothic horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Peter Cushing, Ingrid Pitt, Madeline Smith, Kate O'Mara and Jon Finch.

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Tracey Wigginton

Tracey Wigginton (born 1965), known as the "Lesbian Vampire Killer", is an Australian murderer who achieved notoriety for killing Edward Baldock in 1989, supposedly to drink his blood.

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Trope (literature)

A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech.

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Twin

Twins are two offspring produced by the same pregnancy.

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Twins of Evil

Twins of Evil is a 1971 horror film by Hammer Film Productions starring Peter Cushing, with Damien Thomas and the real-life twins and former Playboy Playmates Mary and Madeleine Collinson.

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Vampire

A vampire is a being from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital force (generally in the form of blood) of the living.

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Vampire films

Vampire films have been a staple since the era of silent films, so much so that the depiction of vampires in popular culture is strongly based upon their depiction in films throughout the years.

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Vampire Lesbians of Sodom

Vampire Lesbians of Sodom is a satirical play written by Charles Busch.

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Vampyros Lesbos

Vampyros Lesbos (Las Vampiras) is a 1971 West German-Spanish horror film directed and co-written by Jesús Franco.

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Vrykolakas

The vrykolakas (Greek βρυκόλακας, pronounced), also called vorvolakas or vourdoulakas, is a harmful undead creature in Greek folklore.

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Walerian Borowczyk

Walerian Borowczyk (21 October 1923 – 3 February 2006) was an internationally known Polish film director described by film critics as a 'genius who also happened to be a pornographer'.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_vampire

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