Delphine Seyrigas as Countess Elisabeth Bathory in the cult film Daughters of Darkness.
Delphine Seyrigas as Countess Elisabeth Bathory in the cult film Daughters of Darkness.
Whanganui Film Society president Helen Marie O'Connell says the next film offering is a perfect one "for Halloween ... or spring."
Harry Kümel's 1971 cult classic Daughters of Darkness stars Delphine Seyrigas, Danielle Ouimet, John Karlen and Andrea Rau.
"There are neither fangs nor longueurs in this sumptuous blend oflesbian vampire flick and European art movie," wrote Time Out's Nicholas Royle
"Stranded in a palatial seafront resort hotel in out-of-season Ostend, newlyweds Stefan (Karlen) and Valerie (Ouimet) find themselves in thrall to the hotel's only other guests, the Countess Elisabeth Bathory (Seyrig) and her surly but sultry companion Ilone (Rau).
"Tension within the young couple – Valerie is pressurising Stefan to inform his disapproving mother of their marriage – is exploited by the countess when she rouses Stefan to ecstasy with an account of her ancestor's unquenchable thirst for blood.
"Three young women, meanwhile, have been found murdered in nearby Bruges, their bodies drained, and the hotel concierge (Esser) can't get past the fact he remembers the countess staying at the hotel 40 years previously, and she hasn't aged a day."
Daughters of Darkness: Monday, November 5, at 7 pm. Davis Theatre, Whanganui Regional Museum, Watt St. Memberships available online at nzfilmsociety.org.nz or at the venue.
