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| Laughing Gravy | Oct 16 2012, 07:41 PM Post #1 |
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Not part of my regular Hammer continuity, but the Blu-ray came out recently and heck, I'm all about sexy, buxom vampires, aren't you? I knew that in the early 1970s, Hammer's vampires were all over the place. I didn't know that three of the films were loosely related, mainly by lesbians with fangs; the trio has become known as the "Karnstein Trilogy", such as it is. The first was The Vampire Lovers (1970), with Ingrid Pitt as Mircalla Karnstein, based on "Carmilla". Yutte Stensgaard took over the role for Lust for a Vampire (1971), and then we get this one, which has Damien Thomas as Count Karnstein (oh, SURE, I gotta watch the one with a GUY vampire). Anyway, he's quite rotten and his nemesis is Peter Cushing, as a witchhunter who likes to burn young women. (Cushing is very good in this film, as usual.) Cushing's twin nieces (Playboy centerfolds Mary & Madeleine Collinson, whose voices are dubbed and quite annoyingly so) come to stay with him. One becomes a vampire, one doesn't, and nobody can tell which one to burn. These are weird vampires, they can walk around in the daylight just fine, thank you. Brief (appreciated) nudity. Gorgeous HD offering from Synapse Films on Blu-ray. No great shakes, but as 1970s horror films with titties go, I've seen worse. |
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