Carmilla
by Eric Hillis
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What must it have been like to
be a young, cinemagoing lesbian
in the early 1970s? Your sexuality
was still far from being accepted
yet on the cinema screen lesbian
vampires couldn’t sink their
teeth into their same-sex victims
quickly enough. Until quite recently,
the lesbian vampire movies
of that period - The Vampire
Lovers, Vampyres, Daughters of
Darkness, The Blood Spattered
Bride and Vampyros Lesbos, to
name but a few - represented the
closest we had come to being
presented with something approaching
a mainstream queer
cinema canon.
NJ STAGE - ISSUE 73
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