https://vo.rs/tags/euro-gothic/Latest from the Euro-Gothic desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/daughters-of-darkness-the-most-elegant-vampire-film-of-the-70s/<p>If you want to prove that the erotic-horror wave of the early 1970s could produce genuine art, you show someone <em>Daughters of Darkness</em>. Harry Kümel&rsquo;s 1971 film takes the same raw material that Hammer and Jess Franco were working — the aristocratic female vampire, the languid seduction, the wasting victim — and lifts it into something cold, controlled and stunningly beautiful. It is the most elegant vampire film of its decade, and one of the very few from the exploitation orbit that a serious art house could programme without apology. The seduction here comes dressed by a couture house.</p>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000