While The Vampire Lovers is an interesting and entertaining effort, containing excellent performances from both Pitt and Cushing, writers Harry Fine and Michael Style and director Roy Ward Baker seem to shy away from actually addressing the questions of sexuality and repression inherent in the material.
The Vampire Lovers
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United Kingdom, United States · 1970
Rated R · 1h 31m
Director Roy Ward Baker
Starring Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing, George Cole, Kate O'Mara
Genre Horror
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A peaceful hamlet in 18th-century Eastern Europe is home to a female vampire with lesbian tendencies who ravages the townsfolk. Years earlier, she killed off all of her fellow vampires. Adapted from J Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla.
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This eroticized vampire tale resulted from the last significant surge of creative energy at Britain's Hammer Films, which thereafter descended into abject self-parody.
Portland Oregonian by Ted Mahar
In this loose adaptation of Sheridan LeFanu's Carmilla, Ingrid Pitt became a Hammer favorite as a lesbian vampire. This has a few nude scenes and Cushing; something for everyone. [22 Aug 1977, p.38]
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