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I want to write about this masterpiece of the prodigious '70 decade. Shooting in the spring of 1974, the year of "Sweet Movie", "Symptoms" and "Enmanuelle", "Vampyres" is the quintessential of the clever catalanian filmmaker José Ramón Larraz (one the most unknown spanish and sensitive directors of my country, Spain). Released in Barcelona in 1979 the critics ignored it and never received a positive position until 20 years after when Tim Greaves wrote a brilliant booklet over "Vampyres", a very complete study of this controversial production with a low budget and the two very beautiful ladies, Marianne Morris as Fran and Anulka as Miriam. The experience of seeing "Vampyres" is unique and romantic. You haven't seen before a movie so lyrical, tragical, emotive and erotic than "Vampyres". The references to other movies and filmmakers isn't place in here because the year of this film, in 1974, nobody had made anything similar; this genuine and naïve masterpiece of the horror recent history of the macabre is in essence a tragical love story, a male fantasy as "The phantom of the Paradise", in the same year -by Brian De Palma- did it too.
We have to recognise the abilities in Joseph Larraz's movies to create a unique and very personal vision of the spiral of terror that never appeared before: "Vampyres" is the part of a trilogy that emerges with "Scream...and die! (in United States called "The house that vanished") and "Symptoms" (The Blood Virgin) that represented to UK in Cannes Film Festival in the edition of 1974. Possibly Joseph Larraz is a ferocious follower of vampirism and one of the most productive and imaginative spanish filmmakers of the seventies. The importance of "Vampyres" is evident and trascendental. The best important movie of vampirism never shooted until today. The combination of violence and sex is brilliant and the very, very, very original screenplay signed by Joseph Larraz and Diane Dauveney -his wife in these days- was productive and elegant. Echoes from jazz music in the soundtrack and the talented editor, Brian Smedley-Aston, give us to the spectators and to the screen the best of all. "Vampyres" is the culmination of a tragical love story never seen before and after.
My opinion is clear and eloquent: 10 points.
score 10/10
vampyres-2 4 March 1999
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