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Lush gothic Hammer horror with Ingrid Pitt, Madeline Smith and Peter Cushing
RELEASED IN 1970 and directed by Roy Ward Baker, "The Vampire Lovers" is a Hammer horror based on Irish novelist Sheridan Le Fanus Carmilla, which was published in 1872 and predated Bram Stokers Dracula by 25 years. The story concerns a family of vampires, the Karnsteins, who prey on people in Austria by finding an excuse to leave their daughter at a rich manor. She then proceeds to patiently seduce the nubile woman of the abode as she drinks the blood of local peasant lassies and whomever else.
The main antagonist, Carmilla/Marcilla Karnstein, is played by Ingrid Pitt, whos effective, but a little too long-in-the-tooth for the role. While she prefers to prey...