José Ramón Larraz (born 1929 in Barcelona) was an idiosyncratic Spanish director of exploitation and horror fims such as the erotic and bloody cult classic Vampyres (1974). He died in Malaga on 3rd September 2013.
Larraz began making films in England with Whirlpool, an erotic thriller co-produced by a Danish company. He made many different types of films using a variety of pseudonyms, but is best known for his horror films. His last few horror films were Spanish/American co-productions. He apparently retired from feature filmmaking in 1992 at age 63.
The book Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984 (1994) by Cathal Tohill and Pete Tombs dedicated a chapter to him and Larraz was profiled in Tombs’ Eurotika TV series:
Selected filmography:
- Whirlpool (1970) aka Perversion Flash
- Deviation (1971)
La Muerte Incierta (1971)
Emma, puertas oscuras (1973) - Symptoms (1973) aka “Blood Virgin”
- Scream – and Die! (1973) aka “The House That Vanished”, aka “Don’t Go in the Bedroom”, aka “Psycho Sex Fiend”
- Vampyres (1974) aka “Daughters of Dracula”, aka “Blood Hunger”
- The Coming of Sin (1978) aka “Violation of the Bitch”
- The Golden Lady (1979)
- El Periscopio (1979) aka Give Us Our Daily Sex aka Malicia Erotica
- Stigma (1980)
- Black Candles (1980) aka Sex Rites of the Devil
- The National Mummy (1981)
Polvos Magicos (1983)
- Rest in Pieces (1987)
- Edge of the Axe (1988)
- Deadly Manor (1990) aka Savage Lust
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