to remove herself from the vampire's curse she must split the vampire's head with an axe or pierce it with a pole. Memmet then kidnaps Linda, and her boyfriend Omar begins to search for her. Nadine later arrives at the asylum to have Linda return with her, where she meets Dr. Seward. Dr. Seward admits that he only attempted to help Linda to draw Nadine to him so he could become a vampire. Nadine refuses and has Morpho kill him. As Omar searches for Linda, she is told by Memmet that all women, including his wife Arga, who return from the island become insane, which has driven him to kill various women around the island. Linda manages to kill Memmet with a saw and escapes to find Nadine. She finds Nadine at her home near death, desperate for blood to survive. Linda ignores Nadine's plea, bites her neck, and stabs her with a pole through her left eye. Morpho commits suicide, and Linda is found by Omar, who tries to convince her that the whole experience was a dream. Cast Ewa Strömberg as Linda Westinghouse (as Ewa Stroemberg) Soledad Miranda as Countess Nadine Carody (as Susann Korda) Andrea Montchal as Omar (as Viktor Feldmann) Dennis Price as Dr. Alwin Seward Paul Müller as Dr. Steiner Heidrun Kussin as Agra Michael Berling as Dr. Seward's assistant Beni Cardoso as Dead woman (uncredited) Jesús Franco as Memmet (uncredited) José Martínez Blanco as Morpho (uncredited) (as J. Martinez Blanco) Production Vampyros Lesbos was filmed in Turkey between June 1, 1970 and July 10, 1970. Franco applied film devices that were used in his previous film such as long strip club sequences and female protagonists while the lesbian subtext was more prominent in this film than any previous work. The music score also differs from the jazz soundtracks of his previous films with a more psychedelic music influenced soundtrack. The soundtrack was composed by Manfred Hübler, Siegfried Schwab and Jesús Franco who credited himself under the alias of David Khune. The film went under several titles before being released as Vampyros Lesbos including 'Das Mal des Vampirs (Evil of the Vampires) and Im Zeichen der Vampire (Mark of the Vampire). Less than a month after finishing production on Vampyros Lesbos, Franco began working on his next film She Killed in Ecstasy (1971). Release Vampyros Lesbos was released in July 15, 1971 in Germany and