Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Daughters of Darkness
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 99 minutes
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In this classic episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe dive back into the lovelives of vampires with 1971’s “Daughters of Darkness,” directed by Harry Kümel and starring the fabulous Delphine Seyrig as Countess Elizabeth Báthory. (originally published 5/16/2025)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.2 | Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema Rewind. |
| 0:11.3 | This is Rob Lamb. |
| 0:12.5 | Today, it's going to be, we're going to be revisiting an episode that originally published 516, 2025. |
| 0:19.9 | It is 1971's Daughters of Darkness, |
| 0:23.5 | such a stylish, beautiful, and haunting vampire story. Let's jump right in. |
| 0:31.9 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:42.4 | Thank you. Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. |
| 0:44.7 | This is Rob Lamb. |
| 0:45.7 | And this is Joe McCormick. |
| 0:47.4 | And we're back with, yes, another classic erotic vampire movie. |
| 0:51.7 | I know it wasn't that long ago that we covered 1983's The Hunger. |
| 0:56.2 | But despite some thematic similarities, today's film, 1971's Daughters of Darkness, |
| 1:02.6 | is an entirely different cinematic experience. Like The Hunger, it does paint with erotic cues |
| 1:08.8 | while also pursuing its own high-minded ideas. |
| 1:12.6 | It'd be easy to dismiss this one. |
| 1:14.9 | Certainly, if you just watch the trailers or maybe just look at a few posters as being more in the exploitation zone, but this is a beautiful and haunting film that is composed with deliberate style and intention. |
| 1:26.6 | Yeah, I would agree with that. |
| 1:27.9 | Despite its main themes being sort of love, sex, and romance |
| 1:32.0 | in the context of murder and a vampire story, |
| 1:35.5 | it's not a very romantic film, actually. |
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