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Overview

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Director:
Roy Ward Baker
Writers:
Sheridan Le Fanu (story)
Harry Fine (adaptation) ...
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Release Date:
22 October 1970 (USA) more
Tagline:
Beautiful temptress ...... or Bloodthirsty monster? more
Plot:
The Countess is called away to tend a sick friend and imposes on the General to accept her daughter Marcilla as a houseguest... more | full synopsis
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lesbian vampires more

Cast

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Ingrid Pitt ... Marcilla / Carmilla / Mircalla Karnstein
George Cole ... Roger Morton
Kate O'Mara ... The Governess (Mme. Perrodot)

Peter Cushing ... General von Spielsdorf
Ferdy Mayne ... Doctor
Douglas Wilmer ... Baron Joachim von Hartog
Madeline Smith ... Emma Morton
Dawn Addams ... The Countess
Jon Finch ... Carl Ebhardt
Pippa Steel ... Laura (as Pippa Steele)
Kirsten Lindholm ... 1st Vampire (as Kirsten Betts)
Janet Key ... Gretchin
Harvey Hall ... Renton
John Forbes-Robertson ... Man in Black
Charles Farrell ... Landlord
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Additional Details

Runtime:
91 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Colour:
Colour (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

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Jon Finch's first film role. more
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Referenced in The Perfect Scary Movie (2005) (TV) more

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lesbian vampires, 18 June 2005
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Author: Lee Eisenberg (eisenberg.lee@gmail.com) from Portland, Oregon, USA

"The Vampire Lovers" is one of three Hammer vampire movies starring Ingrid Pitt (in fact, this appears on a DVD with "Countess Dracula"). In this case, she plays Marcilla, the scion of the Karnstein family. The Karnsteins were rumored to be vampires and a man finally shoved stakes through their hearts. But wouldn't ya know it, Marcilla didn't die! So, she starts lusting after hot young women and drinking their blood. Peter Cushing plays vampire hunter Gen. von Spielsdorf.

For the most part, this movie wasn't much different from other Hammer vampire flicks, but there's an interesting aspect here: I interpreted it as implying that Marcilla was a lesbian, the way she goes after women. But that's just my interpretation. It's not a good or a bad movie, just average.

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