12 Great Female-Directed Vampire Movies
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While vampire stories find their roots in gothic literature, and early vampire films are mostly calibrated as horror, modern vampire stories can be found in a myriad of genres. You’ll also find that vampire films tend to be highly eroticized, and thus often filled with a great deal of male gaze. With this in mind, I present twelve vampire films from a variety of different genres, each directed by a woman. The male gaze is gone, but the eroticism remains mostly intact! (For more of Nerdist Vampire Week, click here!)
The Velvet Vampire, 1971 (dir. Stephanie Rothman)
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
Ahead of his 13th feature film,
Saint Narcisse, the cult film director speaks with Michael Bullock about the importance of self-love and self-exposure
Michael Bullock Your work often explores queer subcultures and pornography as tools of political dissent. In your films, explicit queer sex is deployed as a means of empowerment and liberation. When did you begin to think about sex and sexuality that way?
Bruce LaBruce In 1985, I started
J.D.s, a queer-punk fanzine, with lesbian artist G.B. Jones. It was the era just after gay liberation, the engine of which was a very aggressive, militant sexuality. In Toronto, the leather bars were always packed, and there would be lines at the saunas even on weekdays. I was partly caught up in all that but also disillusioned with the mainstream gay movement because it was sexist, misogynistic, racist and classist. So I turned to punk. But punk was kind of homophobic and misogynistic as well, so my friends and I made our fanzines and Super-
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