The Vampire Lovers (1970)

August 27, 2024 8:10 AM

[TRAILER] The general (Peter Cushing) and a baron hunt a vampire named Carmilla (Ingrid Pitt) who seduces and bites their daughters. The first in Hammer Films' Karnstein Trilogy, based on/inspired by Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu.

Also starring George Cole, Kate O'Mara, Dawn Addams, Douglas Wilmer.

Directed by Roy Ward Baker. Screenplay by Tudor Gates. Based on Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Adaptation by Harry Fine, Tudor Gates, Michael Style. Produced by Michael Style, Harry Fine for Hammer Films. Cinematography by Moray Grant. Edited by James Needs. Music by Harry Robertson.

76% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

Currently streaming in the US on Tubi. JustWatch listing.

posted by DirtyOldTown (2 comments total)

Period costumes, lovely cinematography, excellent UK actors slumming it, vampires, cleavage/boobs, and lesbians.

A fun way to spend 90 minutes. I did guffaw at chain link fences in the background and a character in 1794 giving a distance in kilometers, though.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:11 AM on August 27

I like this movie, but the one I really like is Countess Dracula. Part of it may be just be that (the stunning!) Ingrid Pitt is far more convincing as Countess Bathory than as the ingenue Carmila. It's also just a darker, grittier film, at least insofar as a Hammer costume drama can be really dark and gritty.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 6:56 PM on August 28