Lust for a Vampire
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Movie Reviews of Lust for a Vampire
Movie Review: Sequal to "THE VAMPIRE LOVERS".
Summary: 4 Stars
Once again, Hammer Films make a fine vampire flick. This is the film that followed behind Hammer's "The vampire Lovers". In this movie, YUTTE STENSGAARD plays Carmilla and she is resurrected by another vampire. There she blends in with the other villagers and begins preying on innocent male victims. RALPH BATES plays a professor who figures out who she is and what's she's been up to! This film isn't as good as "The vampire Lovers", but it is a good vampire movie from Hammer films. This DVD will be uncut and contains 5 additional minutes not seen in the previous version on REPUBLIC home video! Buy it today!Movie Review: Anchor Bay Does It Again
Summary: 4 Stars
Here is another excellant DVD from Anchor Bay. They have done marvelous things with this and other Hammer films. Lust for a Vampire, while not known as one of Hammers great films is in my opinion well worth the price of the DVD. Of course while Lee and Cushing would have made it all the better it is still one of the better, later Hammer films. My only problem with this picture is the silly song, Strange Love!!! Very distracting and totally uncalled for. Im hoping to see the other two in this trilogy,Vampire Lovers and Twins of Evil, offered on DVD soon.Movie Review: Thank you Jimmy Sangster . Wonderfully bad motion picture
Summary: 4 Stars
I rented this (on dvd) but was not interested in the special features . I gather Director and frequent scribe Jimmy Sangster dislikes the film ? I don't . The film is by turns amusing , erotic , hilarious and occasionally a bit scary . it's certainly fun . I fully agree with Eccentric Cinema's review of the film and spotted all the gaffs and laughable stuff . I just think it's a great deal of fun because of all its flaws , charms , copious nudity and theme . Certainly worth at least a rental for all Hammer heads .Movie Review: Surprisingly good
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a Hammer film with a terrible reputation. In fact, many fans consider it the low point of the studio's history. Well, it is not. It is actually an atmospheric, entertaining film that can stand along Hammer erotic vampire films such as "Vampire Lovers" and "Twins of Evil". The Anchor Bay print is awesome. I'm sure this movie has never looked so clean and crisp. The commentary is also very entertaining. All in all, this is a fine movie that should please Hammer fans and vampire movie fans.
Movie Review: Camp Good Fun
Summary: 3 Stars
Set in the 1830s in some fictitious east European country, it begins with the evil Count and Countess Karnstein catching themselves a young virgin from the village whom they sacrifice to the Devil in order to resurrect the beautiful Countess Carmilla (Yutte Stensgaard). We then switch scene to young writer of horror stories, Richard LeStrange (Michael Johnson) arriving in the local village to hear the usual stories about how the castle on the hill is a Place of Evil blah blah blah. So off he goes to investigate only to discover that, place of evil or not, it is now adjacent to a posh girl's finishing school brimful of stunning young women including a certain Mircalla who he is instantly smitten by, rather unhappily as her name being an anagram for `Carmilla' is no accident. Smitten as he is he quickly contrives to get taken on as an English teacher and is given lodgings to share with the decidedly strange history teacher Giles Barton played by Ralph Bates. Obviously it isn't long before nubile young ladies start cropping up dead with strange marks on their necks. A fair amount of confusion seems to have reigned over the making of this. It's a sequel to the earlier 'Vampire Lovers' where Ingrid Pitt played the role of Carmilla. Here they couldn't get her so they used the relatively unkown Stensgaard. Terence Fisher was originally pencilled in to direct but Sangster had to take over when that fell through. And Peter Cushing was originally to have been cast as Barton but was replaced by Bates when that didn't work out either. Not that any of these replacements prove so very disastrous. Sangster does a decent enough job. Stensgaard is pretty good in the lead: it was probably the high point of her short career before she quit to work for a Christian radio station in the USA. And Bates isn't Cushing but is still serviceably creepy. The weak point of the film and the main reason this is one of Hammer's less successful vampire movies is Johnson as LeStrange who should be the dramatic and emotional centre of the movie but who fails to breath life into a serious disappointingly feeble and uninteresting character. Suzanna Leigh is equally lacklustre as Janet Playfair, the main goodie female character, the virtuous young teacher who takes a fancy to LeStrange (who is surely just not interesting enough to be very credibly such a big hit with the ladies, both dead and undead, as he is here). So by no means the greatest of the Hammer vampires but great fun nonetheless. If you like this sort of thing (and I have to say love it) all the ingredients are there: blood, sex, evil old counts with V-shaped haircuts, muttering villagers, peasant girls with heaving bosoms, black carriages with big black horses, noctural assignations, vampires turning to skeletons after getting `staked', bodies down wells, stalwart local policemen who don't really know what they're up against, creepy graveyards... Oh go on. You know you really want to.