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Twins of Evil (1971)
Director: John Hough
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From Time Out Film Guide
Hammer climaxed scriptwriter Tudor Gates's Sheridan Le Fanu trilogy (The Vampire Lovers and Lust for a Vampire) with this little number: Puritan witch-hunting and rum goings-on at Castle Karnstein in Pinewood Austria. The centrefold Collinson twins are a sabre-toothed fiend (Madeleine) and a damsel in distress (Mary), effectively marking out the tension between virginal repression and unchecked licentiousness lying at the core of the genre. Some moments of Gothic atmosphere though, don't quite dispel the feeling that much of the plot is devoted to developing situations where its leading ladies might be disrobed for the camera.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: John Hough
Producer: Harry Fine, Michael Style
Cast: Madeleine and Mary Collinson, Peter Cushing, Kathleen Byron, Dennis Price, Harvey Hall, Isobel Black, Damien Thomas, David Warbeck, Katya Keith full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 87 mins
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