ADDITION: Severin Region FREE Blu-ray: May 2015: Severin's new 1080P transfer matches the color scheme of their original 2000 SD, but the artifacts in that letterboxed transfer are no longer present and it shows more information in the frame than that 15-year old DVD and significantly more than the, now unavailable, green-hued, Image Entertainment DVD from 2004. The Blu-ray is single-layered with a fairly modest bitrate but I expect this will be the best, however imperfect, digital presentation for Vampyros Lesbos. The 1.66:1 aspect ratio HD visuals have a thickness and some texture, are a shade soft but colors look true and show some brightness and depth. Skin tones seem realistic. It looks better in-motion that the stills below.

The audio is transferred via a linear PCM 2.0 channel at 1536 kbps in the original German-language. The music has contributions from director Franco, Manfred Hübler and Sigi Schwab (She Killed in Ecstasy). I wasn't keen on this odd track and at some point the music was so screetchy - it was irritating to my ears. I don't doubt that this very well may be authentic and not the fault of the transfer. There are a few syncs issues but I suppose that is more due to the language some of the actors are speaking (and post-Dubbed). Anyway, despite the replication of the film's original audio - in my opinion it is awful (again, not blaming Severin.) This may give appeal to some who enjoy the uniqueness. There are optional English subtitles on the region FREE Blu-ray.

Severin load up on the extras with a 20-minute, interview with Writer/Director Jess Franco entitled Vampyros Jesús where now deceased impresario discusses the film. Sublime Soledad is a 20-minute interview with historian Amy Brown talking about the beautiful Spanish actress and dancer Soledad Miranda who died in 1970 at 27-years of age. This is quite interesting. We also get a 12-minute interview with author Stephen Thrower (Murderous Passions - The Delirious Cinema Of Jess Franco) discussing Vampyros Lesbos. There is a short clip of Franco and a Yoda doll, German trailer and German opening credit sequence and the enclosed DVD has an alternate Spanish language version of the film running 1 1/4 hour.  As Eric tells us:

"The Spanish version of VL on the bonus DVD is a different cut of the film with no nudity (as per Spanish censorship during the General Franco dictatorship), different editing, different narration, and a lot of the score replaced (either because the people who put the Spanish cut together did not like the German score or more likely because the M&E tracks might have been mixed together, making such radical re-editing impossible)."

I'm not a big fan of Jess Franco films but Vampyros Lesbos was better than most I've seen. It has some interesting sequences but, like other works from the director, seem to fall apart relying on the sex and gore than fleshing out the narrative. Still, the extras here are good to appreciate the film and fans of this genre should get this Blu-ray version. Knowing more about Soledad Miranda makes me keener to see She Killed in Ecstasy.