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Bookmark this pageThe Vampire Lovers (1970)
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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From Time Out Film Guide
The film which made Ingrid Pitt a major horror movie cult figure (she plays a voracious lesbian vampire). Based on Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, it is well mounted and enjoyable, with solid performances: the pre-credits sequence, in particular, has a dreamy beauty. But some of the action is a bit flat; and overall it marks the point at which vampirism in British movies became so overtly erotic that the films virtually ceased to be about anything except sex. Later examples of the strain were to become terribly monotonous.Author: DP
Cast & crew
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Producer: Harry Fine, Michael Style
Cast: Ingrid Pitt, Pippa Steele, Madeleine Smith, Peter Cushing, George Cole, Dawn Addams, Douglas Wilmer, Jon Finch, Kate O'Mara, Ferdy Mayne full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 91 mins
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