The first lesbian vampire movie?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Mark of the Vampire
misbegotten — 12 years ago(August 23, 2013 04:33 PM)
Yes, I know it's ultimately revealed that Luna isn't a real vampire, but for the majority of the film's running time we're lead to believe she is and despite all the various male characters running around, it's Irena who Luna's exclusively interested in. The scenes featuring the two of them are undeniably sexually charged.
I adore the sequence when Luna (behaving more like a lover than a predator) approaches Irena and tenderly touches her, whereupon an overwhelmed/frightened Irena instinctively backs away & sits down, and Luna silently tries to comfort & reassure her. Fedor then interupts, causing Luna to hiss cat-like at him, grab Irena by the hand and protectively bundle her away. The entire scene is spellbinding.
(Incidentally, Luna's hiss was apparently an ad-lib. All female vampires have hissed cat-like ever since, thanks to Caroll Borland.)
Since
Mark of the Vampire
was released the year before
Dracula's Daughter
(1936) - in which the title character preys upon a nervous street-walker called Lili (played by Nan Grey) in a scene heavy with sexual tension - this means that
Mark
can almost certainly claim to be the first lesbian vampire movie.
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DoctorPlague — 12 years ago(October 20, 2013 10:01 AM)
I personally don't see it, and don't see anything sexually charged between the two
, and by way of the story, we know why Luna is exclusively interested in Irena. But that's probably just me, and I can't really tell anyone else how to percieve what is and is not an aspect of a film. I've also seen people say the same about Dreyer's 'Vampyr', that it's the first of such films, and I REALLY don't see it in 'Vampyr'. I believe that it is very much a current that runs through 'Dracula's Daughter' though, to the point that it was even advertised with the vague promise of female-on-female vampire action, talking about saving the females of London from Zaleska. I'd say it starts there with the Universal picture. But again, just me.
Of course, if homosexuality IS a main theme of 'Dracula's Daughter', then it should be noted that it's one such film that, if it's celebrated for being as such, then it's fairly curious as to why. Doing a one-for-one where vampirism equates to lesbianism, keep in mind that Zaleska loathes her existence and wants nothing more than to be cured of her 'affliction', even going so far as to attempt to employ psychiatry to make her 'normal'. In that sense, it doesn't appear as though it's a subject that's being treated very kindly. -
lm362 — 9 years ago(September 25, 2016 08:31 PM)
Vampires are not attracted to one sex over the other. To a vampire who is wanting to kill humans, all humans are prey to them.
"Do All Things For God's Glory"-1 Corinthians 10:31
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