Il Plenilunio Delle Vergini (1973)

Billed as Full Moon Of The Virgins on Amazon Prime, and known as The Devil's Wedding Night to most of the world, this fantastic Italian horror movie can comfortably join the Low Budget Movies With 9000 Different Names Club. I'll go with the original title, Il Plenilunio Delle Vergini, even though I have absolutely no real fucking clue on how to correctly pronounce it.

Il Plenilunio Delle Vergini is brilliant. I loved every second of it. The ridiculously wooden acting of Mark Damon (sorry bro) somehow lends itself to the overall atmosphere of the feature, especially towards the start. And then, as the film progresses, Esmerelda Barros as Lara and Rosalba Neri as the Countess take over the spotlight. Both are oddly creepy, but the latter truly shines in her role, with some breathtaking scenes (the bathing in blood scene being the most striking, see below and above!).

The film does unfortunately lose marks for its fairly shitty ending and twist, and the hammy inclusion of some zombie vampire guy who just does a whole bunch of shuffling around and not much else. But as far as virgin sacrificing Dracula knock offs go, this is pretty good. - 12/02/2018