The Vampire Lovers (1970)
AIP Production #7005

Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Screenplay by Tudor Gates, based on ‘Carmilla’ by Sheridan Le Fanu
Adaptation by Harry Fine, Tudor Gates and Michael Style
Produced by Michael Style and Harry Fine for Fantale films/Hammer Films, distributed by AIP

Jeff and Cheryl are titillated by the…well, you know, in the Vampire Lovers.

Starring Ingrid Pitt as Marcilla/Carmilla/Mircalla Karnstein
Pippa Steele as Laura Spielsdorf
Madeline Smith as Emma Morton
Peter Cushing as General Spielsdorf
George Cole as Roger Morton
Dawn Addams as the Countess
Kate O'Mara as the governess, Mademoiselle Perrodot
Douglas Wilmer as Baron Joachim von Hartog
Jon Finch as Carl Ebhardt
Ferdy Mayne as the doctor
Kirsten Lindholm as the First Vampire (the blonde woman)
John Forbes-Robertson as the Man in Black
Shelagh Wilcocks as the housekeeper
Harvey Hall as Renton, the butler
Janet Key as Gretchin, the maid
Charles Farrell as the landlord

Co-produced by Hammer Pictures and American International Pictures. Find this movie streaming on Tubi, Freevee or ScreenPix, or rent it on Vudu.

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View the Vampire Lovers trailer here.

Our open and close includes clips from the following films/trailers: How to Make a Monster (1958), The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), High School Hellcats (1958), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), The Wild Angels (1966), It Conquered the World (1956), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and Female Jungle (1955)