The Velvet Vampire (Rothman, 1971): Barbican Cinema, 6.30pm
This film is part of the Stephanie Rothman season at the Barbican. Details here.Chicago Reader review:
Given the genre (horror) and the budget (extremely low), it may seem
perverse to say that Stephanie Rothman’s 1971 film is among the best
women’s films ever made, but so it is—a highly intelligent, deftly
poetic reimagining of the vampire myth, with the theme of fatal
sexuality transferred to a female character. The vampire is neither an
aggressor nor a seductress, but an abstract figure of polymorphous
sensuality: her “victims” choose her, and they range from a would-be
rapist to a liberated (and wittily parodied) southern California couple.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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