Here’s an upcoming project that I cooked up: I’m setting up a photoshoot in a couple of weeks involving nearly a dozen ladyfriends, with all of them dressed up as vampires. I’ll create a sweet little web page with as many pictures as possible, but first all these distinguished guests will be reinvited for an Halloween party where I’ll give them a personalized CD with their own photos on it. What an incredible and creative guy am I. And nice too.

This got me thinking about female vampires of the movies. Since I’m due to launch a new series for this blog, things couldn’t fall in place in a better way.

So here’s a photo of Andrée Melly, one of the Brides of Dracula in the 1960 classic Hammer Films production. Playing Gina, Andrée was actually born in England, despite a French-sounding name. She was more seen on British TV during her acting career, which sporadically lasted until 1990. For myself as a child and seeing Brides of Dracula for the first time on television, the vision of Andrée with her large hungry eyes and awesome fangs was a bit much… But even at a young age, some deep part of me could still understand the dangerous dose of sex-appeal going on, as I was memorized by that beautiful but lethal creature.

And isn’t this the appeal of all these characters? Gorgeous temptresses promising untold pleasure in an undead world? How would you resist the temptation? Could any of us tolerate the ecstacy? This is what we will try to found out in this series, mainly by introducing the most alluring female blood-suckers coming from the world of Cinema.