Thursday 7 March 2019

Hammer goes full exploitation


The Vampire Lovers (1970)

Directed by Roy Ward Baker this film stars Peter Cushing, Ingrid Pitt, Madeline Smith and Kate O'Mara. In 19th century Styria a female vampire uses her beauty to seduce and suck the life from young women.

While this film may have been somewhat ground breaking in terms of showing lesbian vampires realistically it is only doing so for exploitative reasons. The plot is a paper thin excuse for a bunch of nudity and there is only the merest hint of a tragic character in the final moments. Even the acting gets pretty hammy in places, not Hammer Horror's best work.

1/5

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