A vampire's lust knows no boundaries...
In 1830, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla. The nearby Finishing School offers rich pickings not only in in the blood of nubile young ladies but also with the headmaster who is desperate to become Mircalla's disciple, and the equally besotted and even more foolish author Richard Lestrange.
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Unpretentious, classical in form, effortless and grave.
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- Wuchakon TMDB · Aug 20237/10
**_Gothic drama/romance marked by villages, castles, maidens and vampirism_** In 1830, a writer (Michael Johnson) visits a village in the shadow of the diabolic Karnstein Castle in Austria whereupon he decides to teach at a nearby female school after meeting a lovely new pupil (Yutte Stensgaard). Another student (Pippa Steel) and the headmaster (Ralph Bates) are also enamored by Mircalla. What is the secret of her magnetism? Could she be the reincarnation of Countess Carmilla Karnstein, who died in 1710? Christopher Lee lookalike Mike Raven is on hand as sinister Count Karnstein. “Lust for a Vampire” (1971) takes place forty years after the events of the previous film, “The Vampire Lovers,” released the previous year. These movies were loosely based on Irish novelist Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla," which was published in 1872, predating Bram Stoker's "Dracula" by 25 years. Hammer’s ‘Karnstein trilogy’ is completed by the prequel “Twins of Evil” (1971). Blonde Dane Yutte Stensgaard is noticeably younger than Ingrid Pitt, who played Mircalla in the previous movie (and was offered the role here); Yutte was 24 during shooting while Ingrid was 32. There are, unsurprisingly, several fetch
Read the whole review on TMDB - John Chardon TMDB · Nov 20194/10
Confessions of a Vampire Vixen! Lust for a Vampire is directed by Jimmy Sangster and written by Tudor Gates who uses characters written by Sheridan Le Fanu. It stars Ralph Bates, Barbara Jefford, Suzanna Leigh, Michael Johnson, Yutte Stensgaard, Helen Christie and Pippa Steel. Music is by Harry Robinson and Technicolor cinematography by David Muir. The second part of Hammer Films' "Karnstein Trilogy", "Lust for a Vampire" seemed destined to be miserable from the get go. Peter Cushing had to leave the production when his darling wife fell gravely ill, Hammer's best director Terence Fisher had to also bail out, while Gates had his original romantically literate script jettisoned for one more concerned with nudey prod games. What eventually plays out on screen is a tepid and confused movie, more concerned with bosom baiting than anything resembling a coherent and dramatic horror story. Pretty much everyone involved with making it disowned it, and it's not hard to see why. From production goofs to the inappropriate cheesy pop song that assaults the ears during a love making scene, the film is badly constructed and just functions to purely show some buxom flesh in the hope that it itsel
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Cast
- Barbara JeffordCountess Herritzen
- Ralph BatesGiles Barton
- Suzanna LeighJanet Playfair
- Yutte StensgaardMircalla / Carmilla Karnstein
- Michael JohnsonRichard Lestrange
- Helen ChristieMiss Simpson
- Mike RavenCount Karnstein
- Pippa SteelSusan Pelley
- Christopher CunninghamCoachman
- Harvey HallInspector Heinrich
Crew
- Jimmy SangsterDirector
- Tudor GatesScreenplay
- David MuirDirector of Photography
- Harry RobertsonOriginal Music Composer
- Spencer ReeveEditor
- Harry FineProducer
- Michael StyleProducer
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