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A honeymooning couple arrive on Ostend off season and book in to the best room in a deserted faded-grand hotel. There is something odd about them, but before we an find out why, a countess reminding me of Marlene Dietrich arrives and takes an unnatural interest in them. She is evidently after both of them sexually, and she has a pert young woman in tow as her secretary, to make sure everyone has got someone to keep them company.
Slowly we realise that she is a vampire, hundreds of years old. But there are no fangs, although there is a fair amount of improbably blood letting.
In the early stages of the film the girl is pestering her new husband to inform his aristocratic mother that they have got married. He is strangely reluctant to do this, but eventually he telephones an effeminate wealthy man, who closes the telephone conversation by saying, "Be sure to tell the young woman, that Mother sends regards."
The film tries hard to be a quality art film, but it doesn't quite make it, and it seems to have been consigned to oblivion now.
There are a lot of "also known as" titles for this, often an indicator of a problem film:
Blood on the Lips;
Children of the Night;
Daughters of Darkness;
Erzebeth;
Les Lèvres rouges
The Promise of Red Lips;
The Red Lips; and
The Redness of the Lips.
HF March 2008
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