- Format: PAL
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Warner
- DVD Release Date: 11 Oct 2004
- Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0002VF67E
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 98,215 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Lesbian Vampire in a Girls' Dormitory,
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This review is from: Lust for a Vampire [DVD] (DVD)
"Welcome to the finishing school where they really do finish you" throatily growled the trailer to Lust For a Vampire, the troubled second film in Hammer's Karnstein trilogy, following on from The Vampire Lovers and preceding Twins of Evil. Peter Cushing dropped out when his wife fell ill while original director Terence Fisher broke his leg, resulting in Ralph Bates, channelling Dwight Frye, and Jimmy Sangster taking over.
It's the weakest of the three films, but it has a few things going for it, chief among them Yutte Stensgaard's bisexual vampire and Pippa Steel as one of her lesbian conquests/victims (the film could just as easily have been called Lesbian Vampire in a Girl's Dormitory and might have fared better at the box-office if it had). Michael Johnson, one of those identikit early 70s British actors you'd swear you've seen a dozen times before until you look at his filmography and realize you've never seen him in anything else, is the randy dandy author of lurid gothic tales who schemes his way into a English teaching job at a finishing school so he can have his wicked way with one of the students, Yutte Stensgaard's Mircalla, not realizing that she's an even more accomplished predator who's working her way through the schoolgirls there herself. Not that he's overly concerned when he finds out, but that's no surprise considering Yutte's main competition is Suzanna Leigh, who looks about as much fun as mucking out a stable on a hot day and spends most of the film with a scornful disappointed scowl on her face that combines with unflattering photography to make her appear much like you'd imagine Joanna Lumley's brother might after a night on the tiles. The story isn't particularly compelling and the screenplay isn't one of Hammer's best: it's the kind of film where a line of dialogue like "What you need is a -" is immediately accompanied by the fortuitous arrival of a Bishop with a line in killing the undead before the line can be finished. But it does feature much 70s nudity and even an oral sex scene to the accompaniment of perhaps the most memorable song in Hammer's oeuvre, the aptly-named Strange Love, while disc jockey Mike Raven is quite hilariously dubbed by Valentine Dyall - his delivery of the line "Heart attack!" is guaranteed to bring the house down. Sadly, while Anchor Bay's US DVD hasa good selection of extras, on its home turf this Hammer entry gets no extras whatsoever.
14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Strange Love,
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This review is from: Lust for a Vampire [DVD] (DVD)
In 1970 Hammer continued the adventures of Carmilla Karnstein with this silly but entertaining and oft maligned follow up to The Vampire Lovers. Every forty years the vampire family Karnstein return to wreak havoc among the peasantry, only this time there's an all girls finishing school to sink their teeth into. Danish pastry Yutte Stensgaard steps into Ingrid Pitt's role as the seductive predator, putting the bite on Pippa Steele and Judy Matheson and she looks absolutely ravishing! Michael Johnson is the weedy love interest, as shallow an individual as you will ever meet who beats poor Ralph Bates to square one, the latter knocked off in one of those glorious dream-like sequences that make these films a wonder to watch. Mike Raven gives an hilarious turn as Count Karnstein and his prognosis of "a heart attack!" is a real rib-tickler. Centre stage is taken by the cemetery love scene; swirling ground fog, Carmilla doffing her clothes and going cross-eyed at the moment of orgasm, Tracy warbling the title theme Strange Love... "...if I were a vampire, then you would die." Gorgeous production, even if the camera crew are glimpsed unintentionally during the coachman staking scene and the special effects are not so special. Followed a year later by the even sillier and over rated Twins of Evil.
3.0 out of 5 stars
They sure put the wrong picture on the case front,
This review is from: Lust for a Vampire [DVD] (DVD)
Zero horror but plenty of fake blood, soft porn and even lesbianism. It's quite fun but definitely one of Hammer Films' more camp late offerings.
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