Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Carmilla"

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Crypt of the Vampire [La Cripta e l’Incubo] [Terror in the Crypt] ** (1964, Christopher Lee, Adriana Ambesi, Ursula Davis, José Campos, Véra Valmont, Friedrich Klauss, Angel Midlin) – Classic Movie Review 4450

Christopher Lee is the ideal star as Count Ludwig Karnstein in director Camillo Mastrocinque’s atmospheric but slackly paced 1964 Italian Gothic horror film La Cripta e l’Incubo, aka Terror in the Crypt or Crypt of the […]

Oct, 02

Blood and Roses [Et Mourir de Plaisir] *** (1960, Mel Ferrer, Elsa Martinelli, Annette Stroyberg) – Classic Movie Review 3514

Co-writer/director Roger Vadim’s atmospheric 1960 French romantic horror movie is based on Sheridan Le Fanu’s famous novella Carmilla. It tells the story of a young woman who is spurred to murder by her family’s vampirism, a […]

Apr, 02

Vampyr [Castle of Doom] ***** (1932, Julian West, Henriette Gérard, Sybille Schmitz, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel) – Classic Movie Review 3513

Danish co-writer/ producer/ director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s creepy and compelling first sound film from 1932 tells the haunting tale of a callow, supernatural-obsessed drifter called Allan Gray (Julian West), who arrives by night at a lonely secluded […]

Apr, 02

The Vampire Lovers *** (1970, Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing, Madeline Smith, Kate O’Mara, Dawn Addams, Pippa Steel, George Cole, Douglas Wilmer) – Classic Movie Review 3,155

Hammer Films’ 1970 erotic chiller The Vampire Lovers stars Ingrid Pitt as Carmilla Karnstein, a 1794 German Lesbian vampire who ingratiates herself into the home of General von Spielsdorf (Peter Cushing) and sinks her fangs […]

Dec, 15

Lust for a Vampire **½ (1971, Ralph Bates, Michael Johnson, Yutte Stensgaard, Barbara Jefford, Suzanna Leigh, Mike Raven, Helen Christie) – Classic Movie Review 2,892

The 1971 horror film Lust for a Vampire is the second of Hammer Films’ three movies derived from J Sheridan Le Fanu’s book Carmilla. Though star Ralph Bates described it as ‘one of the worst […]

Sep, 08

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