Today from 17:00-20.00 hrs, HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space will be used by the UvA Film Club for their weekly screening.

This week's film is Vampyres (1974), with an introduction by Jacob Engelberg

Harriet (Sally Faulkner) and John (Brian Deacon), a staid and parochial English couple, are off on an equally unadventurous caravanning holiday. Their hopes of calm tranquility are spoiled, however, by the strange presence of two glamorous and mysterious women (Marianne Morris and Anulka Dziubinska), who flit around the woods and country house nearby. As the couple’s curiosity builds, the women take in gentleman callers, whose desires eventually prove deadly. It’s 50 years since the release of José Ramón Larraz’s Vampyres (1974), a low-budget yet luscious film whose inventiveness with the figure of the bisexual female vampire has cemented it as a classic of the vampire genre. Vampyres serves up sex and gore at their most ecstatic, with a good dose of humour to boot, but its most alluring and enduring images are those attesting to the troubling implication of death in desire.