NSFW: Vampyres Remake Coming from Artsploitation Films

September 28, 2016

Erotic horror remake Vampyres coming to DVD and VOD in October

Director Joseph Larraz’s 1974 Spanish/British erotic horror masterpiece Vampyres is one of the high marks of ’70s female vamp cinema, a melancholy, explicit pulp fantasy that has lost none of its power.

Remaking such an important film isn’t necessary and, on the surface, seems like a doomed endeavor. And yet Spanish filmmaker Victor Matellano (Wax) has done just that… and done it very, very well.

Matellano’s Vampyres is an English-language tale that pulsates with raw eroticism, wicked sado-masochism and blood, blood blood! Matellano sets his story in a stately English manor inhabited by two older lesbian vampires and with their only cohabitant being a man imprisoned in the basement. Their lives and lifestyle are upended when a trio of campers come upon their lair and seek to uncover their dark secrets, a decision that has sexual and blood-curdling consequences. The film is infused with eloquent and atmospheric cinematography, impressive special effects makeup from master Colin Arthur (The Neverending Story, Conan the Barbarian, 2001: A Space Odyssey) and stars screen genre icon Caroline Munro (The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, At the Earth’s Core, The Spy Who Loved Me, Maniac, Slaughter High).