Pulse / Kairo, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001 // Jay McRoy, “Spiraling into Apocalypse: Sono Shion’s Suicide Circle, Higuchinsky’s Uzumaki, and Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s Pulse”. In Nightmare Japan, (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2008)
A low-budget early 1970′s horror film about a bisexual vampiress, set in the sun-drenched California desert. Come for the premise, stay for the fabulous art direction and costume design (Teddi Peterson and Keith Hodges, respectively).
The full movie is free on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhh487UW5HI