Dracula’s DaughterPG

Directed by Lambert Hillyer | USA | 1936 | 1h 12m | Starring Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden, Marguerite Churchill, Edward Van Sloan, Gilbert Emery

After the death of Count Dracula, his daughter Countess Marya Zaleska arrives in England to ritually destroy his corpse and free her from her vampiric curse. Heralded as an early example of lesbian desire on screen through Zaleska’s interactions with two young women and the foregrounding, as in Dracula, of a powerful erotic gaze. Presented as part of the Fright’s Out! Season, with an introduction by Dr Michael Goodrum.

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Reviews

‘Apart from its haunting, low-key mood, the film is also notable for its subtle suggestion (hardly expected from a former director of B Westerns) of the lesbian nature of the female vampire.’
David Thompson, Time Out

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