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Lesbian vampirism is a trope in 20th century exploitation film that has its roots in Joseph Sheridan le Fanu's Carmilla (1872). // Linguistic usage A trope is a rhetorical figure of speech that consists of a play on words, i. ... Exploitation films or trash cinema is the name given to a genre of films, extant since the earliest days of moviemaking, but popularized in the 1970s. ... Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (August 28, 1814 – February 7, 1873) was an Irish writer of short stories and mystery novels. ... Carmilla is a novella by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu. ...
Indeed, the lesbianvampire is much more apparent in her homoerotic desire for other females, either in her choice of victims or her choice in other vampires whom she takes as lovers.
As Weiss argues, the lesbianvampire is at once attractive and threatening to men, in part because she expresses an active sexual desire (Weiss, 1993: 90).
This indicates that the relationship between the female lesbianvampire and her victim is mutually desirable and setting it clearly within a sexual context.
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