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22 October 1970 (USA)
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Beautiful temptress ...... or Bloodthirsty monster? more
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The Countess is called away to tend a sick friend and imposes on the General to accept her daughter Marcilla as a houseguest...
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Screen Queens: Hammer Horror
(From FilmExperience. 24 October 2009, 12:21 PM, PDT)
Ingrid Pitt Pays Tribute To Boston Blackie
(From CinemaRetro. 30 September 2009, 7:13 AM, PDT)
(From FilmExperience. 24 October 2009, 12:21 PM, PDT)
Ingrid Pitt Pays Tribute To Boston Blackie
(From CinemaRetro. 30 September 2009, 7:13 AM, PDT)
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A Hammer Classic
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Ingrid Pitt | ... | Marcilla / Carmilla / Mircalla Karnstein |
| George Cole | ... | Roger Morton |
| Kate O'Mara | ... | The Governess (Mme. Perrodot) |
 | Peter Cushing | ... | General von Spielsdorf |
| Ferdy Mayne | ... | Doctor |
| Douglas Wilmer | ... | Baron Joachim von Hartog |
| Madeline Smith | ... | Emma Morton |
| Dawn Addams | ... | The Countess |
| Jon Finch | ... | Carl Ebhardt |
| Pippa Steel | ... | Laura (as Pippa Steele) |
| Kirsten Lindholm | ... | 1st Vampire (as Kirsten Betts) |
| Janet Key | ... | Gretchin |
| Harvey Hall | ... | Renton |
| John Forbes-Robertson | ... | Man in Black |
| Charles Farrell | ... | Landlord |
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91 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
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UK:X (original rating) |
New Zealand:R16 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:16 (1973) |
Portugal:M/18 |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:R
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Peter Cushing was cast at a late stage.
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Featured in "SexTV: Blood Lust/Bodies of Evidence/Cake (#4.4)" (2001)
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This film gets a lot of ribbing for the casual nudity that bedecks it. Not fair. This film is in many ways another Hammer classic with its good solid acting, its lush photography and costuming, and general sense of horror. It is based in part on Sheridan Le Fanu's classic female vampire story Carmilla about a young girl that befriends other young girls only to vampirize them. Ingrid Pitt plays the toothy(and toothsome) vampire wench in all her busty splendour. She is magnificent on the screen and oozes sex appeal. Yes, she goes topless as do her female co-stars....but although one sees that these scenes feel forced...they do not detract from the film(and for me they enhanced it greatly). The rest of the cast is good with Peter Cushing as a general in a small role and Harvey Hall as a servant standing out. The best part of the film for me is the eerie graveyard of the Castle Karnstein that we are introduced to in the prologue and again visited to in the epilogue. It really sets the mood of the story and was a pretty inspired rendition of the Carmilla tale.