In the early 1970s while hammer films were achieving success with their

Khanstein trilogy, European filmmakers were also making lesbian vampire movies, some of which also

worked as loose adaptations of Carmilla. But these films were even bolder and more daring. Two

films in particular, one made in Belgium in 1971, the other in Spain a year later, both told similar

stories of newlyweds on their honeymoon and a lesbian vampire coming between them.

These films were fun, creepy and contained plenty of the blood, violence and explicit nudity

audiences had come to expect from this subgenre in the 1970s. But they also seemed to be doing

something more. They were exploring themes of sexuality and identity in ways that were complex

and nuanced. These were vampire movies, the likes of which audiences had never seen before.

Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the vampire and we discuss daughters of darkness

and the blood-spattered bride.

Mother, sense regards. Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike Munter and as ever,

I am your host. If you're tuning in for the first time, then welcome. In this podcast,

we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular

subgenre's one series at a time. We are currently in the middle of our eighth series exploring the

evolution of the vampire movie. And this is part 10. In this week's episode, as that intro suggested,

we are going to be discussing two incredible European lesbian vampire movies from the 1970s.

Daughters of Darkness from 1971 and the blood-spattered bride from 1972.

Oh my god, both of these films are incredible and we will be talking about them in spoilerific

details. So if you get a chance, please check them out before listening to our discussion.

A quick content warning though, when it comes to the blood-spattered bride, there is some animal

cruelty, some real animal cruelty in there, such as the way of so many 1970s European horror films

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