For our special Vampiric Valentine's day screening, we're thrilled to be bringing Harry Kümel's elegantly twisted Euro-Vampire classic to the big screen!

Stranded in an empty and opulent off-season Ostend hotel, a pair of newlyweds (John Karlen and Danielle Ouiment) find themselves alone and adrift in the palatial surroundings in the company of a pair of mysterious and striking strangers; Countess Bathory (Cube favourite Delphine Seyrig) and her surly/sultry companion (the amazing Andrea Rau). Initially captivated by the Countess' tales of vampirism and torture, they soon learn of a spate of mysterious and grisly killings occurring in nearby Bruges. Coincidence? The concierge, who remembers the Countess’ visit 40 years earlier, since which she appears to have not aged a day, doesn’t think so. But will the entranced couple manage to free themselves of the Countess’ hypnotic grip in time?

With its delicious collision of ancient glamour and explicitly erotic bloodletting, director Kümel brings an intensely heady atmosphere of crumbling decadence to his simple but intriguing premise, resulting in a pitch-perfect encapsulation of the kind of coolly sophisticated Euro-horror that made the 70s such an iconic and influential decade for the genre.

Plus…THAT soundtrack! Phew. HFVC DJs will be in the bar spinning tunes of a similar ilk, while the bar staff will be trying to recreate THAT cocktail.