Product Details

• Actors: Christopher Lee
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Mondo Macabro
• DVD Release Date: March 16, 2004
• Run Time: 77 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002V7SV6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #164,288 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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BLOOD OF THE VIRGINS - DVD Movie

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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Glorious!, October 3, 2004

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Christopher W. Curry (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blood of the Virgins (DVD)

Argentinean movie director Emilio Vieyra immediately fires up his 1967 horror/sex send up Blood of the Virgins with the acute notion that most have given the legend of vampirism at least a cursory glance. Very little dramatic build up leads to even less character development, and then we're out of the gates and plowing down the home stretch. Amenities and blouses be gone! We only have 77 minutes to settle this sucker! Bring on the bare breasts and blood! And that's precisely what Vieyra does.

In short, a group of swingers are touring the vamp's area when their hippie van collapses, leaving them to spend an unforgettable and seemingly unlivable evening at the Count's lodge. The Count has kept an unwilling yet equally undead bride in his clutches, and not surprisingly, a sing-song "vampire" romp ensues. However, at least Emilio Vieyra was at the helm to save us from that tired fodder as boobies quickly begin to flow from the females' brasiers as fluently as blood from their fang-punctured wounds.

Thematically there is an interesting twist as the Count's vamped bride not only exterminates her captor with the dreaded silver dagger but then turns the damnable instrument upon herself. Cinematically we're treated to numerous topless Go-Go dancers who wiggle wildly to cool-school jazz while inserts of sea gulls double for vampire bats. Weird.

Emilio Vieyra is Argentina's answer to Brazil's Coffin Joe, Spain's Jesus Franco and France's Jean Rollin. Vieyra haphazardly stumbled upon the horror/sex combo and immediately submitted three very bizarre entries into the cycle. In fact all three were released between 1967 and 1970. Vieyra's genre credits include; The Deadly Organ (a.k.a.: Feast of Flesh), the mind/crotch-blowing Curious Dr. Hummp and of course Blood of the Virgins.

This DVD from Mondo Macabro features a fantastic documentary on Argentinian exploitation film making as well as production notes, a still gallery and alternate subtitles.

By: C. Curry

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars South-of-the-Border Eurohorror That's Fang-tastic!, April 20, 2011

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4-Legged Defender "Anthony C. Rubbo" (ATL. GA.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blood of the Virgins (DVD)

First off, let's clear up the misinfo in the details listed for this product - Chris Lee is NOT in this flick. It's not a Hammer, Amicus or Jess Franco film; it's a hammeresque vampire tale made in 1967 in Argentina, but has many, if not all, of the trappings of a gothic Eurohorror offering from this era. From the director who gave us the infamous and delirious 'The Curious Dr. Humpp' and the impossible to find 'Feast of Flesh', Emilio Vieyra manages to deliver the template of what was to become the rudimentary plotline for 80% of all Eurohorror as well as US and UK horror entries during the 70's. It goes something like this -
A group of swinging hippies are vacationing in the woods/mountains, and one night their van breaks down and they seek shelter in an old abandoned lodge/castle/haunted house, and it becomes a night they will never forget, assuming they survive, that is. This plot has been around since James Whale's 'The Old Dark House' in 1931 through every episode of 'Scooby-doo'... Originality aside, it still works remarkably well, assuming it's done right. And has the required nudity, if I'm not mistaken. And this one has it all - buoyantly bare-breasted babes, topless go-go dancing, group-groping and dry-humping on dance club bar table tops, this is one helluva hot Latin ride through south-of-the-border sixties cinema and, oh yeah, it's got a pretty cool vampire story to go with all the lurid, lascivious proceedings. This one's not to be missed, kids, it's sexy psych-cinema awash in colorful confusion and more interesting than anything Hammer films was releasing at that time. I'm a bit baffled at the scenes of seagulls saturated with red background implying that they're bats - this is South America, you couldn't find a few real bats? Then resort to the old hokey Hammer trick and use plastic ones on easy-to-see strings and ramp up the camp value... the more experienced viewers out there have already hit the sauce or pipe prior to the credits anyway...

Mondo Macabro also treats us to a fine documentary on Argentinian exploitation (I'm betting you didn't know such a thing existed), production notes, a stills gallery, a great transfer and trailers - God love 'em.

5 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Language options are unclear..., October 10, 2004

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K. Doyle (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blood of the Virgins (DVD)

Might be of interest to note what languages/subtitle options are on this disc-- I haven't bought it yet, but Amazon doesn't mention the subject at all, someone's asleep at the wheel-- the best I can tell from the Mondo Macabro site (the publisher) it's in Spanish and there are English subtitles.