Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: THE VAMPIRE LOVERS

Time to dip into the 'sexy vampire' genre with the 1970 Hammer movie "The Vampire Lovers", starring Ingrid Pitt and Peter Cushing!
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[@TheBrandonTenold]

Home come we never got a "Carmilla vs. Dracula"?

[@user-yh8kt1fq6r]

You spelled home instead how, just letting you know

[@Michelleabela5487]

Wow we finally got another hammer movie review this is actually pretty exciting also this movie has peter Cushing who plays a general which is great

[@kyrauniversal]

​@@user-yh8kt1fq6rBut Carmilla is a Queen, get it?

[@thedashboard9562]

We kinda did in "Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust."

[@0PsychosisMedia0]

Yog Monster from Space

[@user-yh8kt1fq6r]

Whoever drew the art for the thumbnail of video is a genius

[@ab5olut3zero95]

Coulda been funny to add the Man In Black’s top hat lifted by the steam from Brandon’s head

[@anotheratheist]

His nickname is Hooknfangs.

[@GenericProtagonist118]

Tread with Caution because they're on DeviantArt.

[@jooei2810]

He has been drawing for Brandon since the start and it is awesome!

[@alexgomez6723]

This image actually showed up in the DA front page, and that’s how I ended up here.

[@gundamdragon]

In old vampire legends if the vampire hears funeral prayers it said that they can be dragged back to the grave

[@101Mant]

There are so many different wacky old vampire legends. Vampires repelled by people wearing their underwear inside out (they had to be born on a certain day as I recall), dhampir being able to see invisible ones by looking through the arm of their coat. A whole load of things that could repel them or keep them in their coffin. OCD vampire who had to stop and count seeds or beans.

[@marhawkman303]

@@101Mant yeah, the Count in Sesame Street... this is WHY he's number obsessed! I saw that used hilariously in one of the spoofs. said vampire was able to count so fast that he could ACCURATELY count an entire bag of rice faster than it took to empty the bag onto the floor. Even so this weakness is little more than a distraction.

[@MrWorf35]

A poetic idea that would made a beautiful scene in a horror movie.

[@turgid_member8717]

What CAN'T kill vampires?

[@darrinwatts3419]

Seems odd considering that they're the cause of many funerals......🤔

[@TorontoJon]

Ingrid Pitt was a stunner in her day. As a college student in the early 1990's, I was lucky enough during one Halloween week to see a double bill at a university theatre featuring F.W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu' (1922) and Hammer Films' 'The Vampire Lovers' (1970). That was a very memorable evening indeed. :)

[@MrDj232]

Come for the history, stay for the lesbian vampires.

[@leewright1]

She certainly was a stunner, and suffered x under the Nazis occupation. And ppl talk blithely nowadays about "strong women role models". They have no idea.

[@nickmitsialis]

Different movies but also a college lad in Athens back in the early 1980s==Kate O'Maria in Horror of Frankenstein was quite 'arousing'. Saw it in a double bill with Scars of Dracula--after rather more than a few pints, my mates and I took to calling the movies "Tits of Frankenstein" and "Tits of Dracula".

[@liamfarranree4433]

Ingrid Pitt is the best special effect in any horror movie.

[@16rumpole]

man, what a smokeshow.

[@davetheheretic295]

Have a steak and drink yourself to sleep? Works for me.

[@Fulgrim2]

If it doesn’t work, just add fries.

[@frankgesuele6298]

@@Fulgrim2 🍟🥩😋

[@DemonKingBadger]

A hot steak is better than a cold chop. nyuk, nyuk

[@tyrant-den884]

"Nonsense, she's looking at you." Wingman

[@pedrovallefin8406]

The dude became self-aware, he was genre savvy and would play whatever rol was asked of him in order to see some lesbian vampires in the flesh.

[@wstine79]

Sadly, things went downhill for Hammer Studios after "The Vampire Lovers." Movies like "Night of the Living Dead," "Rosemary's Baby," and "The Exorcist (which came out the same year as Frankenstein Must Die) took away the audience that Hammer was enjoying. Still, I enjoy them all.

[@missyk5474]

Night of the living dead came out a few years before any of this.

[@faelwolf1177]

@@missyk5474 In 1968, yes

[@sugarplumsoda]

"Okay seriously, is she batman?!" Damn that quote broke me

[@peterzerfass4609]

"A vampire can be destroyed by a stake through the heart or decapitation" Soooo...just like everyone else, then?

[@KasumiKenshirou]

No, they can ONLY be destroyed in those ways, while everyone else can be killed numerous other ways, too.

[@LyaksandraB]

Well, yeah, lol. But what they mean is that the vampire can't come back if you do that. Thing is, these methods of simple decapitation or a stake were made up because apparently we've been underestimating audience intelligence and simplifying media for a long time. The actual methods to kill vampires from the older legends are actually more complex rituals, which makes more sense as a special way of killing them.

[@ASpooneyBard]

​@@LyaksandraB​ Correct me if I'm wrong, but I heard that the original purpose of the stake was to nail them into the coffin so they couldn't escape. It wasn't lethal on it's own but they could potentially starve the vampire that way or just incapacitate it long enough to do whatever else they needed to do.

[@JaredCowan-rh4dk]

@@ASpooneyBard And even werewolves had a link somewhat, I think, since they consumed corpses in early legends, kind of a vampire disposal in a way (indirectly)

[@cartooncritique6625]

"Well, who wouldn't that kill?" --Dracula from "Hotel Transylvania". 😂

[@Canadamus_Prime]

According to some vampire lore, particularly the original telling of Dracula, vampires only lose their vampiric powers in daylight, but aren't harmed by it. As for the cross thing, this isn't as bad as from Dusk til Dawn where a vampire was repelled by the red cross on an ambulance.

[@marhawkman303]

pretty sure the finger thing works in at least one movie.

[@julietfischer5056]

Far too many movies used the 'vampires repelled by any cruciform shape' gimmick. Even _Horror of Dracula_ did it in the climactic match between Van Helsing and Dracula. Given how useful and common that shape is (and how easily a cruciform shadow can be made), the only vampires who could face it would be non-Christian.

[@Canadamus_Prime]

@@julietfischer5056 That's why I got a kick out of the one scene in Dracula 2000 where the dude holds up a cross to the one vampire and the vampire's like "sorry man, I'm atheist."

[@HarryBuddhaPalm]

Vampires getting killed by sunlight started with the movie "Nosferatu". It was not part of vampiric lore before that.

[@ab5olut3zero95]

Wow. They got the garlic flower thing correct. I’m impressed. Usually they try the cloves/bulbs.

[@marhawkman303]

Yeah IRL most people don't even know what garlic plants look like. having a vase of garlic flowers was an amazing touch.

[@originaluddite]

@@marhawkman303 I only recently ate a dish with garlic stalks and liked it. It's not every day I feel that way about a green vegetable.

[@marhawkman303]

@@originaluddite It's a bit weird. But yeah this is why people cultivate garlic.

[@wstine79]

I love The Hammer movies, even the lackluster ones. The sets, the cleavage, and blood were awesome. It never hurts to have Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee in the cast.

[@crazysilly2914]

people all know the hammer Dracula, Frankenstein, mummy, and invisible man movies, but many people don’t know about their one-off movies like this one...

[@roberthughes2092]

The cunning linguist joke was brilliantly played, dude. 😂

[@bensneb360]

This is my favorite vampire movie… gothic sets, billows of fog, lesbians, & Peter Cushing, this movie has everything

[@ArmageddonUnlimited]

"Ah Danke. Sie sein ein richtig Linguist!" is one of my favorite sentences in my mother tongue now! xD

[@kyrauniversal]

The amount of joy from the obscure facts I get from this channel is truly unmatched.

[@Duncaster]

All I’m sayin is this movie would’ve been a little better if one of the vampires was played by Caroline Munro.

[@sergiocampanale3882]

She was in a few Hammers of the time but only as a victim or potential victim ... She wouldn't be a villain until 'The Spy Who Loved Me" in 1977 when she attacks Bond and Anya in a helicopter then gets blown up by a submarine Lotus (That's her!)

[@AgentofLADON]

Every movie would be improved with Vampire Caroline Munro.

[@sergiocampanale3882]

@@AgentofLADON No disagreeing with that.

[@NoMastersNoMistress]

She had a no nudity policy, which to be honest, just made her even hotter.

[@frankgesuele6298]

@@NoMastersNoMistress Met her at a Horror Con in 1996 & still hot😀 Got a nice photo with me standing next to her😎

[@annematusiewicz3712]

The maid's giant cap is the best part. It looks exactly like someone made a regency-era cap and blew it up with a bicycle pump. Good times.

[@tskmaster3837]

When Ingrid Pitt meet the Doctor, I expected a Doctor Who joke. "This time, she's the monster though."

[@gerardmorvan2232]

She already was before. Ever seen "The House that Dripped Blood" ?

[@ConstantineFurman]

@@gerardmorvan2232 "The House That Dripped Blood" was after "The Vampire Lovers."

[@strawberryhellcat4738]

Doctor: "Excuse me, but did you also just eat the Rani?" (Kate O'Mara)

[@tskmaster3837]

@@gerardmorvan2232 Wow, the Time Monster really is that hated.

[@sergiocampanale3882]

Ingrid Pitt was a monster in a way as she helped to kill off what is now known as 'Classic Who' - She starred in the serial 'Warriors from the Deep' in the Peter Davison era (1983-4 season) which was pretty bad and stood out in the annals of 1980s Who for its sheer crappiness, which was quite an achievement. Well, this story already figured a painfully lame 'underwater dragon' which was one of those Chinese parade dragons except less impressive. Anyway, Pitt, now middle aged, starred as a scientist and insisted that she show off her still youthful vigor by karate fighting this thing before being killed. Needless to say, it's even worse than it sounds and when the infamous 'Who-killer' Michael Grade, new BBC chairman, saw it he actually used it as video evidence of why 'Doctor Who' was now a joke and had to put out of its misery. Producer John-Nathan Turner and his pick for the new era - Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant - gave it a good shot before going down trying in 1986. But it wasn't Michael Grade that killed classic Who, it was beauty that killed the beast!

[@lego4virgo]

When Brandon talked about 'lesbian vampire' movie review, I figured that this was the one.

[@DeathofInk]

"I've come to stop you!" *sword gets instantly knocked away* "Oh dear. That didn't work." I love these comical voice over bits when they pop up! XD

[@futuristica1710]

Ingrid Pitt was amazing in Where Eagles Dare!

[@KesselRunner606]

What a disguise.

[@Albemarle7]

I kept expecting her to bite someone.

[@LammasuRex]

Sunlight killing vampires is 100% from the silent movie Nosferatu.

[@NoMastersNoMistress]

And they added that for some quite valid philosophical reasons considering where the world was headed at the time and what Orlock represented. Werner Herzog doesn't consider it the greatest German film for no reason.

[@snorpenbass4196]

Sort of - the crowing of a rooster at dawn was traditionally what forced one variant of Eastern European vampire to return to their grave. Murnau had it be the vampire dying in sunlight, but it didn't come out of nowhere. That said, both Carmilla and Dracula were fine in sunlight, just weaker.

[@charliesage7004]

​@@snorpenbass4196Yes, and crowing of a rooster was babe not only for many kinds of vampires, but for "dark forces" ("nechistaya sila") in general.

[@trence5]

I've heard it was DIRECT sunlight, an overcast or even cloudy day they can........ withstand, but it lessens their power

[@JoeyJ0J0]

I want a remake of this movie starring Kat Dennings and Christina Hendricks

[@randomreviews4278]

I would pay to watch that

[@johnporter9073]

😮😮

[@engelmann82]

Where do I have to sign?

[@benderbendingrodriguez420]

The battle of the chest mountains

[@johnporter9073]

@@benderbendingrodriguez420 they're the breast around.

[@evanhanley6437]

The Hammer Horror films have so much charm and are so enjoyable to watch. I can see why British people loved these growing up along with Martin Scorsese being a megafan as he got into them when he was a teenager. Its pretty heartwarming to see Madeline Smith, Caroline Munro, Ingrid Pitt and Kate O Mara get more love from horror fans and that the girls are great to be with, really adore being a part of these films and fun to talk to at horror film conventions. Great review Brandon!

[@JohnDoe-nq4du]

I'd never have predicted that the phrase "assaulted by a shag carpet" coming up in a discussion of a British lesbian vampire movie would be played straight and pun-free.

[@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat]

Thanks, Brandon. Personally, I think the subtext of sexual aggression is already present in vampirism; when it is made explicit, it actually removes the subconscious recognition and lowers it to eroticism. ❤

[@dubuyajay9964]

I mean...how are dhampyrs made?

[@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat]

@dubuyajay9964 uh...they get bitten by a dhampyr bat...?

[@dubuyajay9964]

@@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat No. A vampire boinks a human.

[@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat]

@@dubuyajay9964 isn't that a "day walker"? Ya got me. But if you want to see what happens when a vampire and human make a baby, watch the animated movie "dracula: sovereign of the damned" here on KZbin. Pretty f'd up!

[@bezoticallyyours83]

​so does that mean countess zalesco was a dhampir in Draculas daughter?

[@JOSH-lw2jv]

Fun Facts: • Roy Ward Baker, the director of *"The Vampire Lovers",* previously did the 1958 docudrama based on Walter Lord's novel of the 1912 Titanic disaster: *"A Night to Remember".* • Madeline Smith, who plays Emma Morton in this film, would later star in the brief role of Italian agent Miss Caruso in Roger Moore's debut 007 film: *"Live and Let Die".*

[@KasumiKenshirou]

I saw A Night to Remember for the first time recently. It's much better than James Cameron's Titanic.

[@sergiocampanale3882]

Impressive! Nice to meet someone else with near encyclopedic knowledge of the pop-culture / sub-genre world.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

Quite right.

[@MadameChristie]

Kate Mara, who played the governess, was best know (at least by SciFi fans) for playing The Rani in Doctor Who in the 80s

[@sergiocampanale3882]

@@MadameChristie Yes! the first and best of the Ranis... She was also a 'sultry sexpot' for many years in the UK on TV and films and was at the height of her career in the 80s when "Mark of the Rani" was made..One of the many famous (and expensive) faces that John-Nathan Turner called up from his long address book of celebs of the time to appear as stunt casting in his epoch of Doctor Who. Entire articles and books have been written on that topic.

[@wimvanderstraeten6521]

In folklore sunlight didn't kill vampires. The vulnerability to sunlight is an invention of literature and movies. The depiction of vampires as sexy creatures is also a departure from folklore because originally they were repulsive and not attractive at all. BTW : you should do Hammer's Plague of The Zombies someday.

[@sergiocampanale3882]

Exactly ... Even the original Dracula (book version) didn't die in sunlight but merely lost some of his powers. When this was finally transferred into 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' people took offence and said it was sacrilege to Vampire lore and had to be put straight.

[@louisduarte8763]

Another Hammer suggestion: "Dr. Jekyll and SISTER Hyde", starring Martine Beswick (meow).

[@julietfischer5056]

Plenty of horny vampires in folklore. 'Consent' and 'No' were not in their vocabularies.

[@julietfischer5056]

@@sergiocampanale3882- The one time Drac's vulnerability shows is when he comes upon Harker and the crew in one of his lairs. It's during the day, so they almost get him. If the reader doesn't pay attention, it seems odd that he must jump out a window rather than become a bat or a wolf. At the end of the book, he's staked just in the nick of time, which some may have thought due to the Sun.

[@IncredibleMD]

To be fair, being attacked by shag carpets was a pretty common occurrence in 1970s Britain.

[@umbrellacorp.]

7:39 Doctor's solution to the problem back then would be to give her an Enema.😉👍💯 Dracula: Dead & Loving was also a good one.🧛‍♂️😂

[@michaelsackett6475]

Making a cross with your fingers will ward off a vampire but "you have to have faith for that to work, Mr. Vincent."

[@JnEricsonx]

And then 5 seconds later, he damn well gets it. :)

[@KasumiKenshirou]

Lost in Space credited Jonathan Harris (Dr. Smith) as a "special guest star" despite being part of the main cast in every episode. I forgot the reason, but it was some weird thing with contract negotiations. Similar reasons are why The Professor and Mary Ann are demoted to "...and the rest" in early Gilligan's Island episodes. Something in Tina Louise's contract prevented them from being credited for some reason. Finally someone just asked Tina Louise if The Professor and Mary Ann could be mentioned and listed in the opening credits and she said it was fine with her.

[@somercet1]

Harris was negotiating his billing. Since he wasn't at the top, he asked to be at the end as a SGS every week. He was just upping his profile, quite cleverly, too.

[@julietfischer5056]

I read that Russell Johnson had a few things to say about it, also.

[@julietfischer5056]

@@somercet1- He wasn't a novice to acting. He'd done a number of movies, guest appearances on television, and had a couple of series before _Lost in Space._ By that point in his career, it might have been a rare Alien of the Week that he hadn't worked with before. (There was a television series called _The Third Man,_ which made Harry Lime a heroic figure, played by Michael Rennie. Harris was his sidekick, Bradford Watkins. BTW, that series was full of nerd bonus, with such guest stars as Roger Delgado, Werner Klemperer, Lorne Greene, Oliver Reed, and Suzanne Pleshette.)

[@glarryg2318]

To answer your question, Brandon, yes, sometimes people do make a cross shape with their fingers in an attempt to ward off something evil. Not sure if it's supposed to be an "official" repellant of vampires, because I've personally only seen people do it jokingly (i.e. when they're only pretending that something is evil (e.g. lima beans or another hated vegetable)).

[@AgentofLADON]

In Doctor Terrors House of Horror a character accidentally does it crossing his arms while trying to fend off a vampire.

[@martinhavelock5106]

I forgot Arthur Daley was in this. That will confuse pretty much anybody outside of the UK.

[@sergiocampanale3882]

Indeed ... But do any modern Brits even know who Arthur Daley is / was? (For all foreigners - He was a popular character in a popular TV show from the 1980s called 'Minder' where he played the ultimate dodgy spiv / criminal fixer type. He starred alongside Dennis Waterman who was also in a Hammer of this era - "The Scars of Dracula")

[@neilold7291]

You can't but think he's just Arthur in old clothes

[@TwoLeftThumbs]

Little dodgy, maybe, but underneath, he’s alright

[@tsopmocful1958]

We watched Minder in Australia too.

[@CGomm-le7gv]

Know him more from the old black-and-white st trineian films

[@tarnetskygge]

9:58 I knew this guy looked familiar, it's George Cole (best known as Arthur Daley in the TV show "Minder")

[@liamfarranree4433]

I'm really dissapointed we didn't get to see Terry Mccann duke it out with the queen of the undead here but I assume Arthur had him overseeing the delivery of a shipment of dodgy knock-off watches or something.

[@MichaelHonscar]

Madeline Smith, Roger Moore’s first Bond girl.

[@sergiocampanale3882]

Seduced by a magnetic personality....

[@cartooncritique6625]

13:05 In classic vampire lore, vampires weren't actually destroyed by sunlight. It only robbed them of their powers and made them easier to kill. In Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula could walk around in broad daylight just fine.

[@wwiiinplastic4712]

That's no General; that's a Grand Moff!

[@NobletheSavage]

George Cole is in it. That's amazing. Such a great actor.

[@bryanbell7816]

Another job well done Brandon. Glad you're so popular now. Hard work does pay off. Keep them coming bro, great job. 😮

[@henrykujawa4427]

One of my favorites! I rermember when this played at a local theatre back in 1971, but it was rated "M" and I couldn't go without my mother (who was working a part-time job on weekends). Took me 20 years to finally see it. Have LOVED it ever since. I also got to meet Ingrid Pitt TWICE at "Chiller Theatre" shows in north NJ, in 1992 and 1996. She was FABULOUS, and so friendly.

[@edwardburek1717]

Hey, this video starts off with footage from The Cellar Club! This fantastic programme is hosted by Caroline Munro (and I urge my fellow British viewers to tune in to Talking Pictures TV on Friday nights), hence the interview with Madeline Smith! And concerning the film, it has a meeting of great minds at 5:11 - Grand Moff Tarkin, meet Arthur Daley!

[@RogueDragon05]

I really did enjoy this movie when I first watched it a few years back, an interesting fact about Ingrid Pitt was that her and her Jewish mother both escaped from a death camp in Poland during WW2.

[@breegrimm7142]

I love this film! I hosted a "Lesbian Vampire Movie Night" a few years ago and this (along with Daughters of Darkness and Vampyres) was shown. I am planning to do another one soon and am still going to have this one as the cornerstone.

[@thedys70]

one ticket please.

[@eryaid]

The actress who played the countess was only 7 years older than her daughter

[@scockery]

Transylvania is like Alabama.

[@sergiocampanale3882]

And sadly it showed .... affecting the story a little it must be said.

[@charliesage7004]

They present themselves as aunt and niece, not mother and daughter.

[@pippishortstocking7913]

​@@scockery😆

[@timalice-2833]

Not quite what was shown at 20:42 in From Dusk Till Dawn they put two sticks together to ward off vampires and Tom Savini’s character says “yeah, Peter Kushing did it all the time” so maybe the two fingers might work.

[@RichardWatt]

Making the cross symbol can be enough to buy you some time to get away from a vampire, according to some variants of the lore.

[@timalice-2833]

@@RichardWatt even in the Castlevania series they said vampires freak when geometric shapes are thrust in front of them so the cross will work on non-Christian vampires.

[@martincann5052]

You joke, but the 'everything can look like a holy symbol' turns out to be a great help in the climax of the Discworld novel 'Carpe Jugulum' which, as the title suggests, focuses on vampires, with many pokes at Hammer films, folklore and an amusing inversion of goths who claim to be vampires.

[@sergiocampanale3882]

The comedian Eddie Izzard, who I believe is now well known in the USA, did an extended and immortal skit on Hammer horror in his first theatrical show in 1993, also roping in the recently released 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'. In that, he examines the vampire lore of movies and asks the same question - do things shaped like crosses have the same effect? He did a whole routine on whether fingers (crossed together) worked, in which vampires were merely a nuisance anyone could get rid of. Mind you, other vampire lore suggests that crosses have no effect if the person does not believe in their power or has insufficient faith. Even within Hammer, in 'Dracula has Risen from the Grave' - it is established that a stake through the heart won't kill a vampire if the person doing it has insufficient faith, as discovered by the rationalist student hero.

[@marhawkman303]

@@sergiocampanale3882 yeah some works have it that it must be a conscious act of defying the darkness, not merely a shape.

[@Greycatuk]

Also George Cole was a pretty famous actor in the UK at this time. He was in all four St Trinians films too.

[@ultra6671]

This is a weird adaptation of Carmilla.

[@bezoticallyyours83]

Ish

[@llongone2]

Thank you for bringing up the "Guest Star" thing in films. It IS weird. Also, prime Ingrid Pitt was absolutely smokin'.

[@madzod0076]

Thumbnail for video is one of the best one yet.

[@jlovebirch]

Great stuff. Hope you also do Lust for a Vampire as that has some unintentional camp and humorous elements that are perfect for this channel.

[@Megarover]

I knew it was gonna be a film based on Carmilla for the review but I was honestly expecting Blood Splattered Bride. Still nice to see this movie get some attention.

[@georgeoldsterd8994]

First Civvie uploads a video, now Brandon. Today is a good day. 👍🏻 The "anything cross shaped" bit is also played straight in From Dusk til Dawn, so there's that. Ah, the film was trimmed up for the American release, so maybe they actually talked about who the Countess and Pilgrim Watchman are in the full version?

[@AgentofLADON]

I From Dusk till Dawn one of the characters even suggests they can make crosses from two pieces of wood because 'Peter Cushing does it all the time.'

[@dubuyajay9964]

He did?

[@user-hp2up9oy8v]

Pass the Duchy on the left hand side 😀

[@LyaksandraB]

The doctor's advice is right for anemia. Sleeping well is good advice for everything. Getting there through a little alcohol is not the best thing ever, but also not that bad. A little! Many sleeping pills may be worse for your health. Lastly, Carmilla turns into some kind of panther in the book too, so yeah, not a reference to pussy at all, although it does fit perfectly in modern times, lol.

[@dubuyajay9964]

Do you think Carmilla was supposed to be Elizabeth Bathory just like Dracula is supposed to be Vlad Dracul?

[@bezoticallyyours83]

​@@dubuyajay9964No. Elizabeth bathory bathed in her servants blood. Carmilla is more conniving and charming.

[@Lycan2045]

Who wants to beat this will get ALL the views like Vampirella? Good luck, Brandon!

[@darkstarZ74]

I'm glad I have this on VHS because it looks better than HD

[@petercooper456]

This film is something of a masterpiece

[@alancheatley4378]

I got a book which some people here might like called Hammer Glamour 😊

[@thedys70]

by Marcus Hearn (Author); that's my xmas pressy sorted....

[@seanboggs215]

It may not be perfect, but this is still one of my all time favorite Hammer films. It's got all the right ingredients. It's gothic, bloody, atmospheric and sexy. And having Peter Cushing is just the icing on the cake, even if he's not in too many scenes. It was also the first Hammer movie I ever saw, so it's got my nostalgia by the balls.

[@aionanyx4462]

*Brandon:* "OH, a big hairy --" *Me:* "It took you that long? I had it at shag carpet."😁

[@theagg]

And then the doctor went on to tackle The Fearless Vampire Killers......

[@photobygil]

Yes, I was expecting an insert of actor Ferdy Mayne as Count Von Krolock at some point, even though The Fearless Vampire Killers release predates The Vampire Lovers. I've noticed most movie reviewers either don't recognize Mayne's vampiric role or just don't think it needs mentioning, but I always wait for someone to make the connection!

[@kamenrangerzeo8251]

The artwork for this video is really sold on how female vampires can be just as hot and also well written when done correctly. Selene from Underworld best waifu.

[@maxsmodels]

A movie that was almost ahead of its time.

[@Antropologopt]

The Doctor played the vampire Count von Krolock in The Fearless Vampire Hunters.

[@TanyaBrown-zv2gx]

I have this movie on VHS tape I bought it from a thrift store a few years ago

[@thedys70]

giving it away eh? I bought it new on DVD years ago; great investment

[@Apogee02UK]

Good review. This was the very first proper horror film I ever saw. I was probably far too young, about twelve I think, on a late night BBC showing at a friend's house. His parents were FAR more permissive than mine. The opening sequence of the death shroud rising from the grave absolutely TERRIFIED me! Needless to say I've been a huge Hammer/Horror fan ever since 😆

[@cyborgparrot1996]

I kind of wish Hammer were still around, though given how Full Moon Features have gone downhill with the latest movies they've made, maybe it's for the best if Hammer didn't come back in this day and age. EDIT: I recently found out that Hammer is (sorta) still around, been making new films since 2008.

[@gaskan666]

Just love hammer films great stuff keep it coming Brandon

[@racheledwards2352]

Thanksgiving Dracula. I'm surprised that flick hasn't been made yet

[@RaisinBran80s]

Feels like it should be an ATHF episode.

[@emanuelferreira6875]

Making popcorns already for your video

[@shadowlink2000000009]

The artwork for the thumbnail should have been the box art for the movie

[@maxpower3726]

As I understand it, a person bearing a cross against a vampire has to have faith in the cross and what it stands for or it's ineffective against vampires. It's not the shape of the cross so much as the faith of the bearer. I have seen a couple of instances in movies/tv when a character tried to use a cross but wasn't religious and the vampire just knocked it aside or ignored it. I don't remember exactly which shows. I've seen a lot of vampire movies.Probably not historically canon, but kinda makes sense.

[@WhitneyDahlin]

So happy i found your channel! I would love to see you cover some of the classic japanese horror movies from the 60s and 70s!

[@Mankey619]

Hammer Films are my favorite British horror studios, and they make very interesting vampire movies. I mean the production is amazing, and the Gothic atmosphere is very good in these films.

[@daniellewillis2767]

This, Dr Jeckyl and Sister Hyde and Dracula AD 1972 are a great triple feature. Lust for a Vampire is pretty fun too and Twins of Evil and Vampire Circus are genuinely good. The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires is also an underrated and misunderstood gem...

[@ajh21313]

"Post nut lady glow"... Amazing!

[@hankw69]

I always hated the vaguely cross-shaped, anti-vampire weapon trope too. That's why Fright Night made much more sense. The wielder of the cross had to be a believer for it to work. Or that the cross/crucifix had to be blessed prior by a priest.

[@zerillisguren7720]

Back when movies could show full bush. lol

[@darrenrunning5415]

I think it's a combination of the religious symbol and the faith of the person wielding it. In the novel 'I Am Legend', Robert Neville shows a cross to his adversary Ben Cortman who is Jewish, he laughs. But when Neville shows a Star of David to Cortman, Cortman reacts accordingly.

[@ZombieWilfred]

03:00 fun fact: the bit about vampires being "defeated" by (my understanding is it just keeps them at bay, they can't cross) running water, along with not liking sunlight, are why some think that the vampire myth comes from people with rabies. Rabies was often called "hydrophobia" in old timey rural America.

[@dannyavery5578]

Cheers fella!!! Fun Fact: not every person in Britain is an alcoholic (just the majority of us are, have you seen our weather!?)

[@randomreviews4278]

21:40 i didnt know these were sequels. Oh well now i got to watch this now

[@BigMcLargehuge]

Great review. Renton the Butler was played by a character actor named Harvey Hall. He was also in Twins of Evil, and Zulu (briefly). He was my Shakespeare professor in college and a really interesting person to chat with over lunch. Super great guy. It is one of the reasons I like this movie more than the plot, characters, dialogue, music, and sets should allow mostly because of Harvey's presence there. Good pick. Hope you also do Twins of Evil!

[@sergiocampanale3882]

You were lucky! From his movies he looks quite an intense and interesting person...glad he was so in reality.

[@TheRealNormanBates]

"Twins" of evil indeed...

[@stevewright9779]

He was in the other Karnstein vampire film Hammer did too, Lust For A Vampire, as the detective.

[@SleepingGiant77]

Vampires being destroyed by sunlight is an invention of the film Nosferatu. Prior to this, vampires were certainly active at night and seemed to lose their power during the day. Although they could still be a threat at that time.

[@henrybrennan]

This is one of my all-time favorite vampire films from Hammer Studios. I haven't been all that well lately - and your humor made me feel better. So, even if you never see this post - Thanks.

[@IronSalamander8]

Got this one on DVD, need to get the rest of the Karnstein trilogy yet. This is a fun movie, and Ingrid Pitt is so good here, and her and Kate O"mara were both in Doctor Who! I have the Carmilla book as well.

[@sativaburns6705]

Fly away, lesbian vampire by Engleberg Van Helsing.. My favorite song on the Beavis and Butthead Do America soundtrack.

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

😂😂😂

[@EqualOpportunityDestoroya]

Ingrid Pitt did have some lovely Pitts.

[@louisduarte8763]

AW yeah, it's Hammer Time again! 1:36 PLEASE review those soon! 1:53 Those too! You'll be busy for years! 5:02 And it's still funny. 12:53 But, it is. 15:22 Those are SUSPECTING eyebrows. 22:19 No, but it DOES look classier.

[@mikehunt4986]

These reviews are so much better when one actually cares about how the movie ends! I was surprised that I actually got caught up in the story!

[@Fulgrim2]

I know she was playing a twenty something women in her thirties but I’m not complaining and scarfing down burgers with booze is a perfectly natural sleep aid.

[@AgentofLADON]

I'm always shocked that more period drama upper class characters don't drop dead from all the repression, drink and dinner parties. The blood pressure alone should launch the vampires across the room when they make the first bite. Always good to see another review Mister Tenold. Especially classic horror. Can't even guess what the next film you're hinting at is.

[@sergiocampanale3882]

They did in real life though....

[@nishidohellhillsruler6731]

I forgot Grand Moff Tarkin used to hunt vampires...

[@DemonKingBadger]

Well, that's a reminder to have Always Look on the Bright Side of life at all future family funerals i attend. Not sure any but my dad (being a fan of British humor) will get.

[@mathewhoeschen1147]

Regarding the weird pacing: this movie is an actually quite faithful adaptation of "Carmilla" (including the lesbian subtext and characters that go nowhere and are just sorta loose ends), but the BOOK just starts at the bit where Carmilla shows up in the carriage, and all that other stuff with Marcilla and the General and stuff is only told to us when he shows up and gives his backstory. So it's taking an extended flashback, and presenting that stuff first in chronological order in-universe, while still keeping the General's exposition

[@caseygoddard]

Everything you said is correct, but there's also a framing device in which the novella is actually Laura recounting events in writing a decade after they happened. The story even ends with the line "...often from a reverie I have started fancying I hear the light step of Carmilla at the drawing room door."

[@billjones5741]

Twins of Evil is such a great film. Ultimate Halloween movie.