Woodyanders Review of The Vampires Night Orgy

The Vampires Night Orgy (1973)

A splendidly sleazy 70's Eurotrash horror winner

[8/10 · 30 April 2007]

Big troubles are in store for six luckless tourists who include indefatigable hack horror thesp Jack ("Succubus," "Pieces") Taylor and slinky blonde minx Dianik Zurakowsla when their mini-bus breaks down nearby the remote rural hamlet of Tonia, Transylvania. You see, this cut off from the rest of the world's rustic village's inhabitants consist of nothing but ravenous, long-fanged, flesh-eating, blood-drinking vampires who intend on making yummy meals out of Taylor and friends! Va-va-voomish redhead Eurobabe Helga ("Horror Express," "When the Screaming Stops") Line portrays the evil, wealthy, sexually voracious countless of the plasma-slurping ghouls who's fond of sucking men dry after she makes love to them. The expert direction from Spanish fright film maestro Leon ("Werewolf Vs. the Vampire Woman") Klimovsky begins things in a deceptively gradual and deliberate manner, deftly creating a nightmarishly spooky atmosphere which eventually gives way to a steady succession of jump-out-at-you startling shocks. The eclectic soundtrack alternates between funky slow-drag prog-rock, groovy lounge tunes and mushy weeping violins muzak with hilarious regularity. The barren mountain countryside exudes a natural sense of desolate menace. Having dubious "hero" Taylor be a leering scuzzball voyeur who gleefully peeps on the lovely Dianik through a hole in the wall as she disrobes in an adjacent room adds an extra amoral edge to the already twisted proceedings. And, best of all, there's a pleasing plenitude of gratuitous nudity, soft-core sex and gory violence to make this a terrifically trashy chunk of on-the-money Eurosleaze horror exploitation fun.