The Daughters of Darkness: A short history of 1970’s cinematic Vampires

This article touches on the theme of horror cinema and re-visits cult works and characters.

Before the rise of hardcore pornography in the mid-1970s, low-budget erotica-horror films were mainly aimed at a straight male audience, who were “lured” into the cinema by the promise of provocative themes, mild nudity, and soft-core scenes. Between 1968 and 1974, there was an extraordinary production of vampire films that mixed art, terror, and sensual fantasies, focusing on sensuous female characters.