Synopsis
Ostend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet the mysterious Countess Báthory and Ilona, her secretary.
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Cast
- Delphine SeyrigCountess Elizabeth Báthory
- John KarlenStefan Chilton
- Danielle OuimetValerie Chilton
- Andrea RauIlona Harczy
- Paul EsserHotel Concierge Pierre
- Georges JaminMan
- Joris ColletButler
- Fons RademakersMother
Recommendations
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Austin Chronicle
Daughters of Darkness is a superb, elegant, and sexy vampire movie; its deliberate pace only adds to its overall impact. - 83
The A.V. Club
Strikingly shot and notable for Seyrig's monstrous, Dietrich-like character, Daughters is a psychosexual horror film that's gripping almost up to the very end. - 83
The A.V. Club
This psychologically dense, genuinely erotic vampire thriller lacks fangs, but it has plenty of bite. - 80
The New York Times
Subtle, stately, stunningly colored and exquisitely directed by Belgium's young Harry Kumel, the coscenarist, this is far and away the most artistic vampire shocker since the Franco-Italian Blood and Roses 10 years ago. - 78
Austin Chronicle
Although slowly paced, it is always stunning to look at -- decadent and perverse in that certain Eurotrashy way. - 75
Slant Magazine
Kümel’s impulse to remain on the waning edge of eroticism turns what could’ve been another cheap thrill into a genuinely unsettling examination of the human race’s most happily sanctioned form of vampirism: man-woman couplings. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
One of the best of many early 1970s vampire movies inspired by Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, Daughters of Darkness is remarkable not only for its eroticism, but for Kumel's stunning visual style, reminiscent of that of Josef von Sternberg. - 70
Variety
Daughters of Darkness is so intentionally perverse that it often slips into impure camp, but Kumel and Seyrig hold interest by piling twists on every convention of the vampire genre.
