Vamp or not? Blood Orgy of the She Devils

A very swift ‘Vamp or Not?’ with this, to be honest. It is one that I doubt would have even registered as a potential except that it had an alternate name of “Female Plasma Suckers” and it is actually listed over at Vampyres Online. I have used the cover of Female Plasma Suckers as it is a fine moment in false advertising as, to be honest, it isn’t worth going through this movie on a blow by blow level because there isn’t anything even remotely vampire like in the film.

That is until the last few minutes when black witch Mara (lila Zaborin) tries to escape her fate by becoming an animal. Earlier in the film she had been shot and either transferred her spirit into a cat or turned into a cat – it wasn’t clear. This time she became a bat. Of course, since Dracula, turning into a bat has been a genre staple and turning into a cat was part of Carmilla. In this, said bat is speared and thrown into a fire, releasing Mara's spirit, but there was no evidence that this was anything other than witchcraft. Strangely Ted V Mikels, the director, would make a loose sequel to this 1972 movie as late as 2004. Really not vamp, and in desperate need of being removed from filmographies. The imdb page is here.