Flesh of Your Flesh (1983)

Flesh of Your Flesh (1983)
aka: Carne de tu Carne
Director: Carlos Mayolo
Writer: Carlos Mayolo, Jorge Nieto
Cast: Adriana Herrán, David Guerrero, Santiago García
Columbian Vampire tale.

It's probably the first movie I've ever seen from Columbia but boy is it one I'm not going to forget in an hurry. It starts somewhat like a classic family sage (think Godfather but instead of following the mafia its a few generations of rich Columbian farmers and landowners). When the Grandma and head of the family dies, her family gather from all corners of the world at her estate, to hear her will be read. Only it spells trouble for two of her grandchildren as both the brother and sister learn of their families dark secret, that there's been numerous cases of incest among the family. As they visit old familiar childhood haunts they start to become insatiably attracted to each other and start to have sex, its at this point they're visited by ghostly apparitions of their dead elders. These ghosts start to chant echo's and remarks about tasting blood. The next morning as the brother and sister wake they're somehow changed. After killing a man checking the security of the estate they taste blood for the 1st time and change a little more into blood craved vampires, they then go hunting the local area for newborn babies to feed on.

Apparently the story is comprised of grisly Columbian myths and folk tales, I'm sure some of the aspects of the film I didn't really grasp but on the whole I understood what was going on. The incest within the film is done without showing any nudity but it's still pretty perverse, not really gory either but there's the odd bit of blood ohh and a turkey gets its head blown off in one of the opening scenes. I guess any of these events could offend viewers which is a shame as its a very haunting little movie and the two vampires are as unique to me as when I first watched a Asian hopping vampire film. Well worth hunting down I've probably over scored the rating purely due to never seeing a film like it before, who knows Columbia maybe as an whole sub-genre of incestous blood drinking baby eating vampire movies to unearth

(8½ out of 10)