I coulda sworn I'd seen this movie before. I even mentioned it when writing about director Jean Rollin's vaguely similar CAGED VIRGINS way back in 2012 where I stated that this was a better version of one of his vampire flicks. Well I was clearly thinking about something else because after watching this last night I have no recollection of an earlier viewing and sadly this turned out to actually be a way worse example of his bloodsucking-chick opuses. I will give the film some points for having a few unique points for making our titular vamps blind during the day and it does get deeply philosophical about life from time to time in a pretentious art-flick-kind of way. Unfortunately it never ascends to anything other than a clunky journey of two sad murderous gals which is something I may have appreciated more in my goth youth. The dubbing also does not help in conveying anything serious. There are some pretty unintentionally silly dialogue bits by a werewolf-lady character, a corpse-eating lady ghoul, an older winged vampire lady and pretty much everyone that shows up including 70s porn star and Rollins regular Brigette Lahaie in a brief appearance. I can't help but think that if Jess Franco had made this it would have been wall-to-wall sex scenes with a large helping of lesbianism thrown in which are all things that this film sorely lacks. In fact the nudity here is solely confined to one brief flash and a little blood-being licked off our orphans naked bodies and the rest is all maudlin navel-gazing.
I do own a few more later-period Rollins movies on DVD to get through which I am dreading a bit since clearly his high-points lay in his 70s and 80s output.
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