i can not help ask these question while watch most of franco movie from the late seventy and early eighty . and this one be a good example of this period in his career . if you have see vampyros lesbos or female vampire ( a. k. a. erotikill ) you basically know the story . in vampyros lesbos there a stunning vampire girl ( soledad miranda ) who rather suck the blood out of other female than out of men and in the end die . in female vampire there the same eternally young girl this time suck on genitalia instead of neck to keep her youth and satisfy her hunger . she also die in the end and although she commit suicide if i remember correctly . alternate version of this movie have the vampire girl actually drink blood to bypass censorship . doriana grey and film 3 year later and again feature the ravish lina romay play lead and basically recycle the same story but doesn not make any compromise . doriana grey and an eternal youth and be live all alone up in a castle with her mute servant and keep her youth by suck the life out of innocent girl with the occasional man on the menu . in the end she satisfy herself and dy and float in a small swimming pool and just a the female vampire dy play with herself in a bath fill with blood . this bring me back to my three basic question . be it porn . sure and it be . i wouldn not call this family entertainment . you get a lot of masturbation scene ( and i mean a lot . ) and a couple of lesbian scene and some man woman action . there be extreme close ups of female genitalia and scene that can only be consider a hardcore porn . on the other hand and most of the sexual partner of miss grey die and she be not have any fun and at least and accord to the story she not suppose to have . i be not an expert on porno storyline but i do not find it very erotic to see people die after have sex . so and in some way and this be hardly an erotic movie . be it exploitation . definitely . it be a prima example of seventy erotic cinema from the seventy . it might not be very erotic nowadays and but it be shoot to be . be it franco . affirmative . although it more explicit than early franco movie and it still contain some of his trademark represent out of focus camera work . many scene have franco play with the focus and make many part very confuse and give it a dream like quality . zoom in zoom out . franco have often be critized for use the zoom lens too often . others defend the director and say he only do that during a short period of his career ( i. e. 1968 1971 ) . still and in this movie there a lot of zoom go on . completely useless shot . this be one of my favorite franco trademark and the ability to move the camera to a completely useless part of the scenery and focus on rain pour down or a leaf against the dark sky . this can be explain by franco own word and claim to be a voyeur . he doesn not only focus on female genitalia and he also a voyeur of the beauty of the ordinary world . storyline . i have already discuss the similarity between this movie and other franco movie like vampyros lesbos and female vampire and but there more . he frequently use character that be mute or have a speaking disability ( e. g. lina romay play a mute vampire in female vampire ) and in doriana grey the servant be a mute who use to be a protest singer ( . ) while a girl lock in asylum and telepathically connect to someone in the outside world . this can be trace back to murnau nosferatu and but it be also a recur storyline in franco movie . and then there the doctor in the asylum who go by the name of dr. orlof and a name you will find as early a 1959 ( the awful dr. orlof ) . dr. orlof in turn seem like a reference to murnau nosferatu again ( count orlok ) . so in the end and what have i just see . a typical franco movie who continue to move towards pure sex movie and leave the horror genre altogether and keep up with the zeitgeist . definitely a must for franco fan but not a very good place to start . one last word represent the dvd and release by the producer erwin c. dietrich and have be completely restore and clean up and digitally master and look perfect in every way . this be how they should treat all movie before transfer them to dvd .