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A beautiful female vampire lures men to their doom.A beautiful female vampire lures men to their doom.A beautiful female vampire lures men to their doom.
Monica Swinn
- Princess de Rochefort
- (as Monica Swin)
Jesús Franco
- Dr. Roberts
- (as Jess Franck)
Gilda Arancio
- Victim in the Wall
- (uncredited)
Richard Bigotini
- Vice Cop
- (uncredited)
Roger Germanes
- Irina's First Victim
- (uncredited)
Pierre Quérut
- Inspector
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Gérard Brisseau(uncredited)
- Jesús Franco
- Josyane Gibert
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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- TriviaJesus Franco originally made three different versions of the film.... a straight vampire film called La comtesse noire (The Black Countess), a horror-oriented erotic film entitled La Comtesse aux seins nus (The Bare Breasted Countess), and the hardcore pornography version Les avaleuses (The Swallowers). These 3 versions ran at 72 minutes, 82 minutes, and 96 minutes respectively.
- GoofsIn the opening shot, Lina Romay literally walks into the camera, bumping her face on the lens.
- Quotes
Countess Irina Karlstein: [voiceover] I earnestly wish an end would come to this bloody race I am forced to run.
- Alternate versionsIn the UK the film was originally passed for cinema in 1975 as "The Bare Breasted Countess" in a heavily edited version running less than an hour long. The 1994 UK Redemption video release was cut by over 6 minutes by the BBFC to heavily edit the lesbian/bondage scene and to remove shots of female masturbation and sexual closeups. Some cuts were restored in the 2002 Arrow DVD though 1 min 51 secs were removed from a scene of a woman being forced to strip and engage in lesbian sex.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Eurotika!: The Diabolical Mr. Franco (1999)
Featured review
Tedious soft-core porn from one of cinema's biggest con artists.
People will tell you all kinds of things about Jesus Franco. He's made about five billion films over the past five decades so he must be doing something right, right? Wrong! Nearly every single film I have seen of his reeks of Eurotrash amateurism. Even more depressingly, the man does not seem interested in making anything other than tedious soft-core porn with wafer thin plot lines that pretentious people like to claim is art because he'll throw in a shot of a mountain or the ocean every once in awhile. I guess some people just need to find an excuse to justify the fact they like watching porn, as if something like this somehow brings T&A flicks to a more respectable level. Unfortunately for Jess, many films from the same decade literally crush his lame efforts when it comes to style, plot, direction, acting and eroticism. "Les Avaleuses" or one of its five hundred different titles is nothing more than dull trash with neither the talent or imagination to make it worthy of note. Franco also is rather obnoxious any time you see him interviewed. He has an inflated sense of his own importance, which in the film-making world is almost nonexistent. On several occasions, I've even seen him insult far more talented directors whose ideas he in turn blatantly steals. I've often wondered if this man is obnoxious, clueless or just senile. It's hard to tell but one thing he is not is a good film director.
I hate even referring to this as a film. There is almost no plot and from a technical standpoint it is inept. Things going out of focus all the time is not art, it's laziness and incompetence on the part of someone more interested in zooming in on unkempt crotches than making a decent erotic vampire film. What storyline there is is basically gratuitous nude shots of Franco's wife Lina Romay repeated over and over again. Though a fairly attractive woman, once you've seen a few of these films you're already bored seeing her naked. She's not a very good actress either. She brings nothing to the film or her role other than what God gave her, some of which could use a good trimming. The others nude actresses on display here aren't especially attractive either. Unless you are an obsessive fan of this director (believe it or not, he does have fans) or can't get your hands on more explicit adult material, I wouldn't waste my time viewing this.
I hate even referring to this as a film. There is almost no plot and from a technical standpoint it is inept. Things going out of focus all the time is not art, it's laziness and incompetence on the part of someone more interested in zooming in on unkempt crotches than making a decent erotic vampire film. What storyline there is is basically gratuitous nude shots of Franco's wife Lina Romay repeated over and over again. Though a fairly attractive woman, once you've seen a few of these films you're already bored seeing her naked. She's not a very good actress either. She brings nothing to the film or her role other than what God gave her, some of which could use a good trimming. The others nude actresses on display here aren't especially attractive either. Unless you are an obsessive fan of this director (believe it or not, he does have fans) or can't get your hands on more explicit adult material, I wouldn't waste my time viewing this.
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- universal_monster
- May 3, 2008
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- Runtime1 hour 12 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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