Morgan Meis at Slant Books:
I was watching Vampyros Lesbos the other day, which is, shall we say, very much less than a perfect movie. It is not even, by any reasonable standard for what makes a movie good, a good movie. It is a bad movie, and upon further reflection I’m not even sure if we should call it a movie at all, since it is constructed so sloppily. You could say that instead of a movie it is really just some scenes. There are some scenes, they don’t fit together that well, and then it is over.
The film was directed by Jess Franco, a person well-known to schlock horror and B-movie aficionados. From the early 1960s into the early 2000s, Jess made about three movies a year, which is no mean feat, except that when you watch many of these films it becomes clear that it may indeed have been a mean feat. To say that Jess churned them out would be something of an understatement.
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