Advantages: Atmospheric,deeply erotic,emotional has beutiful scenery,a beutiful music score and has a consise and meloncholic mood Disadvantages: None!!!This is the height of Hammer Horror!!!
...you a slight insight into the world of hammer horror.The saga origined from the atmospheric,chilling thrilller nosferatu followed by the dracula original.The man who we can thank for hammer is of course the eerie novelist Bram Stoker who's unique, inventitive style of writing wrote the Dracula novel,which can easily be considered as the first real horror novel of the last centuary.Of course as the first dracula film became such a success among cinema ... ...in mankinds history. Sometime during the height of Bram Stokers enginuitry the wife of shelley .
Mary shelley spawned one of the greatest rivalry's in not only novel history but for the future of film making,Frankenstein was born into the world of horror.Considered one of the if not the mother of all hammer was of course 'Bride of Frankenstein' which had an even more enormous grossing than the first dracula set of films.During this period of film ...
darkangelwing 11.07.2005 (06.08.2005)
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Advantages: Deeply erotic/gothic settings and beutiful countrysides and music scores blend a perfect hammer brew! Disadvantages: None
THE PLOT:
The vampire family of a local towns castle feast on the local villagers commiting acts of evil.One of those killed is a sister of a fearless villager who vows revenge and too seek out the vampires shrines buried deep beneath the castles grounds,he drives a steak through all but a beutiful enchanting female vampire who is then slain by decapitation.The vampire family is destroyed........or is it?One female vampire carmilla survives the ... ...to the shrine with her,she slays everyone who gets in her way including interfeering servants and the local doctor.
THE SETTING:
The scenery ads the best effect of eery creepiness to this film.The story is told from a dark woodland in eastern europe where a mysterious beutiful gothic castle lies towering above a helpless village below.The woods,the countryside and the local architecture add a breathtaking romantic mood to the film.
THE ACTING:
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moosewood 04.08.2005
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Advantages: Characters, sets, atmosphere, score, made with good taste Disadvantages: None
First film in the great Karnstein trilogy, followed by a flawed little masterpiece Lust for a vampire (1970) and wonderful Twins of evil (1971) , The Vampire lovers is based on (Joseph) Sheridan LeFanu´s 1872 vampire novella Carmilla. Written by Tudor Gates from the story by the producers Michael Fine and Harry Style, The Vampire lovers is set in early 19th century Styria and it follows lesbian vampire beauty Mircalla Karnstein (Polish-born Ingrid ... ...daughters. Peter Cushing plays the revenge-minded father and Madeline Smith has equally impressive role than Pitt as the wide-eyed, innocent heroine with reddish hair and pretty negligees. This elegant, richly Gothic vampire romance has wonderful sets of mansions, castles and graveyards, natural but strong colours of Hammer Studios´1970´s Technicolour, and some very mild nudity. One of the bes films from Hammer Studios and much, much better than ...
scarletpurity 09.09.2008
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