As the Hammer Films|Hammer Age of Horror came crashing down, the studio became more inventive, bloody, and sexual, leaving a notorious but at least inte.
As the Hammer Films|Hammer Age of Horror came crashing down, the studio became more inventive, bloody, and sexual, leaving a notorious but at least inte.
Revisiting Stephanie Rothman s powerfully feminist cult film from 1971.
By Leticia Lopez · @leticia writes · May 6, 2021, 3:00 PM EDT THE VELVET VAMPIRE [courtesy Rotten Tomatoes]
There is vulnerability and emotional magnetism in the intimacy between two women – the common urge to play the voyeur and be connected with someone who shares the same anatomy. Scoop her breast and it’s as if her moan is coming from within you. There is power in sexual freedom; there is power in killing men.
Horror films produce a physical reaction, whether it is from a masked killer slashing someone’s throat or a couple having sex in a secluded cabin. It is that same shock and rushing of the blood that seduces serial killers who have a sexual addiction strangling their logic and saturating them with a craving to kill. Think Jeffrey Dahmer, Rodney Alcala and Ted Bundy, men who raped and murdered for sexual satisfaction. Men whose egos were greater than the society they felt