#23 - Daughters of Darkness (1971)
(dir. Harry Kümel)
A newly married couple traveling across Europe check in to a beautiful old hotel by the sea to stay the night before taking the ferry to England. They intend to stay just the one night, but when Countess Elizabeth Báthory and her female companion arrive after dark they find themselves drawn into a strange and dangerous relationship with the women.
I enjoyed this a lot. It feels like a hybrid of Hammer-style gothic horror mixed with the simultaneously dreamy and trashy feel of a '70s Euro-horror film. It has more than its share of gratuitous sex and nudity, but fortunately it's not the gross rapey kind like in Cry of the Banshee. It never goes for big scares but it does have a lot of really good tense scenes and some chilling moments.
If you like moody '70s gothic horror, this is a good one.
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