... than this has a lot of Horror in it! Like almost way too much of it. Full frontal and everything. There is no explicit intercourse being shown, but other than that it feels like at least 50% of the movie plays in the nude. A lot of women who may not be able to convince you of their characters motivation, but seem to be able to convince others to obey them (through singing as is suggested and their bare bodies).

I wonder if some thought: who needs Viagra, when you can chant and make people horny just like that. Of course Viagra was not a thing back then. But Horror movies were. Not that there is much evidence of that here. I mean it get eerie from time to time, but this puts the Horror mantle on to let you watch a soft-core movie and not feel bad about it. Here's the thing: you can have fun with this, because it's so bad it gets entertaining. You can't be prude (I think I thoroughly established that) and don't expect too much Horror out of it ... Fancy an ... old castle with hot women dying to get into your pants? (on a serious note: the best thing is the location itself, really puts value to the whole thing)

Sexploitation maestro Joe Sarno did his best work with sordid, yet engrossing and realistic melodramas set in a plausibly seedy workaday reality. Sarno takes a stab at the vampire horror genre, but alas falls a little short of the mark due to his fumbling inability to craft much in the way of spooky Gothic atmosphere. Fortunately, Sarno does succeed quite well in giving this picture a substantial erotic charge thanks to the pleasing plethora of hot women dancing and cavorting in the buff, gals masturbating with huge phallic candles, sizzling soft-core copulation, equally scorching lesbianism, and the inspired idea of presenting stuffy occult expert Julia Malenkow (a decent performance by the slender and attractive Anke Syring) as a repressed lady with forbidden incestuous longings for her brother. Moreover, the smoldering presences of the luscious Marie Forsa and voluptuous brunette knockout Ulrike Burtz go a long way in compensating for the often sluggish pacing and the European cast having painfully obvious difficulty with the wordy English dialogue. While not one of Sarno's better movies, this flawed outing nonetheless still delivers the satisfying seamy goods and hence qualifies as perfectly acceptable grindhouse fare.

This is a female vampire story. The historical background is similar to Vlad the Impaler, except it involves a baroness whose spirit is kept alive at this castle. In the basement of the castle, topless women in long loin cloths perform rituals to bongo music. Some young girls arrive at the castle unaware of the rituals. They are enticed to come to the basement through the enchanting bongo music. Here they get naked and have sex. No silicon. The vampire aspect was kept to a minimum.

Nudity, minor full frontal nudity, sex, lesbian sex, female masturbation. While this sounds pornographic, it is actually less graphic than today's soft core.