Year: 1975
Duration: 01:32:24
Directed by: Juan López Moctezuma
Actors: Cristina Ferrare, David Young and John Carradine
Language: English
Country: USA, Mexico
Also known as: Mary, Bloody Mary, Mary, Mary, krwawa Mary
Description: Pretty classically Moctezuma-esque story, with Cristina Ferrare playing Mary, a bisexual artist who may or may not be a vampire (and the late John Carradine making a cameo I won’t spoil). All we know is that her lovers keep showing up with the blood drained from their bodies, and a strange man in a black cloak keeps chasing her around. Plenty of nudity and gore and all that, but I think there is some really interesting stuff going on honestly. A lot of the editing and scene transitions are really interesting and sort of ahead of their time. The film is notable in it’s depiction of a brutal, but sort of vulnerable and “human” vampire (interesting sort of contradiction there), because it predates George A. Romero’s brilliant “Martin” which takes a similar tone. The sexual ambiguities at play here also add another level to the film, and sort of prefigure the recent cultural obsession with the sexuality of vampires (the Twilight films/books being the most prominent examples. Anyway, enjoy!.
Review: It’s been awhile since I watched this one but the gist of it is pretty simple. Mary is a talented but troubled young artist who has a thirst for blood. She seduces both men and women, occasionally drugging her victims before drinking their blood. These vamps have no fangs and stab their prey to get the red stuff going. So you’ve got a little slasher action to go along with your vampire shenanigans. It’s actually not that bad of a movie, as bad movies go. There’s a lot of crap to wade through but enough boobs, blood and bang to keep things interesting.
Cristina Ferrare is very easy on the eyes and quite believable in her role as the tortured murderess Mary. John Carradine turns in the sort of performance we’ve come to expect from these roles at the end of his long career. He’s barely in the film, his “man in black” character being performed most of the time by a stand-in, no doubt better suited for running around in a threatening fashion.
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Iv think I like the othet poster where a woman her foot in a large of acid. Hope my memory is that awful.