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The Vampire Lovers (1970)

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Seductive vampire Carmilla Karnstein and her family target the beautiful and the rich in a remote area of late eighteenth-century Gemany.

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7 August 2000 | BaronBl00d
A Hammer Classic
This film gets a lot of ribbing for the casual nudity that bedecks it. Not fair. This film is in many ways another Hammer classic with its good solid acting, its lush photography and costuming, and general sense of horror. It is based in part on Sheridan Le Fanu's classic female vampire story Carmilla about a young girl that befriends other young girls only to vampirize them. Ingrid Pitt plays the toothy(and toothsome) vampire wench in all her busty splendour. She is magnificent on the screen and oozes sex appeal. Yes, she goes topless as do her female co-stars....but although one sees that these scenes feel forced...they do not detract from the film(and for me they enhanced it greatly). The rest of the cast is good with Peter Cushing as a general in a small role and Harvey Hall as a servant standing out. The best part of the film for me is the eerie graveyard of the Castle Karnstein that we are introduced to in the prologue and again visited to in the epilogue. It really sets the mood of the story and was a pretty inspired rendition of the Carmilla tale.

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Trivia

A Gathering of Vampires: Ferdy Mayne (Doctor) had previously played a vampire in The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), then as a vampire named Fürst "Christopher" Dracula in German film The Vampire Happening (1971). John Forbes-Robson (Man in Black) later played Dracula in Hammer's Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) with Peter Cushing. And Peter Cushing, no stranger to vampire hunting, portrayed an actor playing a vampire in French film The Big Scare (1974), AKA Tender Dracula, in full Dracula costume.

Quotes

Marcilla: You must die! Everybody must die!

Goofs

If this movie takes place in 1790, then how could there be a motor? The automobile was not invented until the mid-late 1880's.

Alternate Versions

The UK cinema version was cut by the BBFC to reduce the opening decapitation and shots of Carmilla kissing Emma's breasts, and the same print was featured on video releases. The 2002 ILC DVD saw the cuts fully waived though the print used was an edited US one which missed a brief full frontal shot of Carmilla in a bathtub scene. The 2006 Optimum DVD featured the fully uncut and complete print.

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Voices of Spring
(uncredited)
Music by Johann Strauss
Arranged by Harry Robertson

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Release Date:

22 October 1970

Language

English, German

Country of Origin

UK

Filming Locations

Associated British Picture Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK

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