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The Devil's Plaything

Original title: Der Fluch der schwarzen Schwestern
  • 1973
  • X
  • 1h 43m
IMDb RATING
4.8/10
1.1K
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The Devil's Plaything (1973)
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A lesbian vampire's soul is kept on in the bodies of her descendants.A lesbian vampire's soul is kept on in the bodies of her descendants.A lesbian vampire's soul is kept on in the bodies of her descendants.

  • Director
    • Joseph W. Sarno
  • Writer
    • Joseph W. Sarno
  • Stars
    • Nadia Henkowa
    • Anke Syring
    • Ulrike Butz
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  • IMDb RATING
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    • Director
      • Joseph W. Sarno
    • Writer
      • Joseph W. Sarno
    • Stars
      • Nadia Henkowa
      • Anke Syring
      • Ulrike Butz
    • 29User reviews
    • 28Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Nadia Henkowa
    • Wanda
    Anke Syring
    • Julia Malenkow
    Ulrike Butz
    Ulrike Butz
    • Monika
    Nico Wolferstetter
    • Peter Malenkow
    • (as Nico Wolf)
    Flavia Keyt
    Alon D'Armand
    Claudia Fielers
    • Samana
    • (as Irina Kant)
    Natasha Michnowa
    Eric Mancy
    Christa Jaeger
    Heidrun Hankammer
    Heidrun Hankammer
    Marie Forså
    Marie Forså
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    • Director
      • Joseph W. Sarno
    • Writer
      • Joseph W. Sarno
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    9HumanoidOfFlesh

    One of the most erotic and sensual horror movies ever made.

    This masterpiece of lesbian horror comes from exploitation master Joseph W.Sarno.It features plenty of soft core sex,really hot lesbian sequences plus a lot of naked women.The acting is pretty good and the film is quite atmospheric and well-made.Marie Forsa is one of the hottest chicks I have ever seen in a horror movie-it's a visual pleasure to see her wonderful body.Sarno really knows how to pick up hot looking ladies.A must see for fans of sexploitation!
    5goblinhairedguy

    unique but disappointing

    Sounds like a natural -- a 70s female vampire opus from 60s erotica master Joseph Sarno. His best suburban exposés of the Eisenhower/Kennedy era featured smatterings of the occult, and one would think that the loosening of standards would set his art free. Don't get your hopes up too high, though. First of all, Sarno's favoured technique is to build up tension between characters using short dialogue scenes -- but here, the thick German accents and stiff acting render the script unfathomable. And Sarno doesn't really have the intense visual style (at least not with this cinematographer) requisite of the genre, despite the authentic Bavarian castle background. Nonetheless, Sarno fans will be amused by the recycling of his favourite tropes (candles, bongo drums, ceremonial chants and dances, carnal compulsion and betrayal), and vampiric completists may be amused by his idiosyncratic and more realistic take on bloodlust conventions. Just don't expect a lost masterpiece, and be prepared to put some effort into the viewing.
    7VideoMonkey

    '70's tittie grind vampire flick at its best

    Well the story is a little hard to follow the first time, but that's only because of all the bare breasted '70s painted-up vampire/witches dancing to the bongo drums. This of course interrupted by a few vampiric orgies. And there are some very interesting candles and uses for them. And for girl on girl action, vampiric or not...this movie just rocks!!!
    5ginormusjohn

    For fans of exploitation movies

    Well, the movie is wall to wall naked women from beginning to end. I'm a big fan of things like that so i enjoyed the movie. Also, these women are all easy on the eyes and various shapes and aizes. I'm telling ypu, the 70's were a magic time. No ribs, hip bones or gym rats in this one. Just naturally gorgeous women with amazing curves.

    Also, don't miss the top notch sets the movie was shot in. The best part is the comically bad painting of the girls long lost ancestor. Jfc its terrible.
    7melvelvit-1

    Not much horror here (but lots of lesbians, at least)

    Yet another sapphic blood cult's on the loose in an old castle as the female descendants of a sixteenth-century vampire get together to receive their sanguine inheritance. There's also a brother & sister whose car break down, a Mrs. Danvers-type housekeeper, garlic crosses, puncture wounds on the neck, and other familiar horror trope in this CARMILLA-esque yarn that's short on hetero coupling and long on lesbianism and incest. Sarno borrowed Mario Bava's colored lights as well as the plot of BLACK Sunday (more-or-less) to spotlight a castle full of T&A, mostly from a naked coven, and even has a woman getting her clothes torn off by bats. From an American director who filmed in Germany to make the very essence of Eurotrash.

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    • Trivia
      The low lying mountain seen from 7:14 to 7:21 is the "Schlafende Hexe" (Sleeping Witch), a well-known landmark of the Bavarian Alps along highway B20 in Berchtesgadener Land, Germany.
    • Goofs
      When Wanda tells Julia that her ancestor was unfaithful to the Baroness, she says: she "betraded her" instead of "betrayed".
    • Quotes

      Wanda: Donoshova who, out of jealousy, betraded her mistress and cast her lot with the fratricidal rebel Ulla Borisov.

    • Connections
      Featured in Joe Sarno: A Touch of Horror (2005)

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    • Release date
      • January 14, 1974 (Sweden)
    • Countries of origin
      • Sweden
      • Switzerland
      • West Germany
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Veil of Blood
    • Filming locations
      • Berchtesgadener Land, Bavaria, Germany(main filming location)
    • Production companies
      • Monarex
      • Saga Film
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 43m(103 min)
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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