Severin Films announces the Worldwide UHD Premiere of iconic director Jess Franco’s seductive1971 feature Vampyros Lesbos.The film is set to arrive in a new restoration, scanned in 4K from the original camera negative and will be released as a two-disc 4K UHD andBlu-ray Edition on 30 March 2026.
The brand-new release comes complete with five hours of special featuresincluding an interview withJess Franco filmed shortly before his death, The Red Scarf Diaries – a Jess Franco career appreciation by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Sean Baker– and much more.
From Jess Franco – the filmmaker The Vatican called “the most dangerous director in the world” – comes his legendary “fever dream of blood and lust” (The New York Times), for the first time ever in 4K UHD. The film stars the eternally stunning Soledad Miranda as vixen vampire, Countess Nadine Carody, who lures women to a Mediterranean island to satisfy her insatiable hunger for female flesh in “a distinctive work of art and beautiful must-see” (Classic Horror), that seductively corrupts the Dracula mythos forever. Ewa Strömberg (SHE KILLED IN ECSTASY), Dennis Price (THEATRE OF BLOOD), Paul Muller (COUNT DRACULA) and the director himself co-star in “Franco’s masterpiece” (The Digital Bits).
For the ultimate seduction, sink your teeth into Vampyros Lesbos on 4K UHD and experience it in all its gory glory courtesy of Severin Films.
VAMPYROS LESBOS 2-DISC 4K UHD / BD Special Features:
DISC ONE: UHD:
- Audio Commentary with Kat Ellinger, author of Daughters of Darkness
- Audio Commentary with film professor Aaron AuBuchon and Oscarbate Film Collective‘s John Dickson and Will Morris
- German Trailer
DISC TWO: Blu-ray:
- Audio Commentary with Kat Ellinger, Author of Daughters of Darkness
- Audio Commentary with Film Professor Aaron AuBuchon and Oscarbate Film Collective‘s John Dickson And Will Morris
- Interlude In Lesbos – Interview with director Jess Franco
- Fever Dracula – Interview with Stephen Thrower, Author of Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco
- The Red Scarf Diaries – A Jess Franco career appreciation by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Sean Baker
- In The Land Of Franco Part 12
- Sublime Soledad – Interview with Soledad Miranda Historian Amy Brown
- Jess is Yoda
- German Opening Title Sequence
- German Trailer
Vampryos Lesbos is released on Blu-Ray and 4K on 30 March 2026.
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