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Clifford Evans (Actor), Noel Willman (Actor), Don Sharp (Director) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Clifford Evans, Noel Willman, Edward De Souza
  • Directors: Don Sharp
  • Format: Dolby, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Final Cut
  • DVD Release Date: 2 April 2012
  • Run Time: 84 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B007789W7U
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 49,309 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Honeymooning in Bavaria, Gerald and Marianne Harcourt experience car trouble and are forced to spend a few days in a small remote village. Soon Doctor Ravna, owner of the impressive chateau that sits imposingly above the village, invites them to dinner and the couple are persuaded to go.Their association with Ravna and his charming beautiful family is to prove disastrous as they become unwittingly embroiled with this company of vampires who seek to initiate them into thier diabolical creed. When the pair attend a masked ball at the chateau a few days later things start to go eerily wrong when Gerald begins to feel faint and Marianne disappears only to later return in front of a ceremony of gowned vampires and announced as their new disciple.

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4.0 out of 5 starsA "Sharp" vampire tale
By Jeremy W. Newbould on 20 May 2010
Format: DVD
This 1962 movie from Hammer Studios is an ulta-stylish effort and it was their first vampire film that did not feature the name "Dracula" in its title.

Set in Bavaria, "Kiss Of The Vampire" is about a newly-wed couple, Gerald and Marianne Harcourt (played by Edward De Souza and Jennifer Daniel), who become mixed up with a vampire cult led by the enigmatic Doctor Ravna (Noel Willman). Fortunately for them though, a vampire expert called Professor Zimmer (Clifford Evans) is on the case and he has discovered an ancient manuscript which can be used to summon up the necessary forces to defeat the vampires....

This really is a wonderful film, from its memorable, atmospheric opening scene set in a cemetery to the spectacular climax involving a colony of bats (that was originally planned for "The Brides Of Dracula"). It is well acted by a great cast, some of whom appeared in other Hammer films, and it is confidently directed by Don Sharp. There are the usual amazing sets and lavish-looking production values, that belie the film's budget, that one would expect from a Hammer movie of this period.

I would recommend this movie to anyone who loves classy-looking, gothic horror movies that don't have to rely on bucketfuls of gore and high-tech special effects to be chilling and effective.
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4.0 out of 5 starsFinal Cut Release (Apt Company name for a Hammer film)
By A. W. Wilson TOP 500 REVIEWER on 15 April 2012
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This Final Cut release under licence from Universal is a rather forgotten gem. As other reviewers have done much better than I could re the plot, I'll just say that the print is excellent, particularly the colour, and the direction by Don Sharp is spot on - The ballroom/party scene is tremendous. The acting is as good as you get with Hammer tho sadly I agree with other reviewers that perhaps Noel Willman isn't best cast as the Vampire in chief, but Clifford Evans is good and I somehow feel if Cushing had been cast it would have been a copmletely different character. Someone else has also mentioned Isobel Black, who gets low/small billing yet features 3 times on the back cover of this release and steals the film in my opinion from Jennifer Daniel, tho she did grow on me. All in all a good Hammer Horror full of atmosphere, colour, and suspense. On another day I might give it 5 stars.
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3.0 out of 5 starsAnother classic Hammer Horror arrives on Blu Ray!
By S. R. Pickard on 19 Dec. 2014
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
Universal have provided a nice transfer of this fine Hammer chiller. Unfortunately the aspect ratio should have been 1.66:1, which I found out through a friend who was informed by the film's cinematographer, Alan Hume, but was ignored when I informed Universal before they did their Hammer Region 1 box-set a few years ago.
I only wish "Phantom of the Opera" had a better transfer element that "Kiss" has here, taking into account the different visual style.
The audio quality is very good and sounds like it could have been made by a magnetic track source.
My only wish this could have been the uncut version which I saw at the Barbican Hammer Festival in '95 or 6. I made an effort for this 35mm print to be preserved, but unfortunately, I believe it no longer survives.
I still recommend this Blu Ray disc as I feel it cannot be improved, unless they re-do it at some stage in 1.66, which I doubt.
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5.0 out of 5 starsReturn to form
By Autonome on 2 Mar. 2013
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
Following the tragedy that "Phantom of the Opera" was, Hammer desperately needed a change of formula in its gothic series, and hopefully "Kiss of the Vampire", their first entry for 1964, would provide exactly that. Exeunt Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Terence Fisher. Exeunt the literary sources of the material and Jimmy Sangster's screenplays. Exeunt Jack Asher and Arthur Grant as DPs.
The only survivors were James Bernard, writing the score, and the impeccable Bernard Robinson as production designer - and one can only be amazed at his ability to change. From being very classical and gothic in the initial Dracula and Frankenstein, Bernard Robinson offers us, in "Kiss...", a very unsettling set - classical in many way but also very kitsch, very colorful and quite timeless...Molly Arbuthnot on the costume side also showed a subtle, modern evolution in the vampire's outfit, with the "disciples" of Dr. Ravna showing long white dresses and Ravna himself being astonishingly austere.
The set designs partly explain the success of the movie, which really lies in its atmosphere. Something extremely perilous and weird permeates the movie for its all duration and this can be attributed to the beautiful effort of Alan Hume as Director of Photography, who conveys the autumnal colors of this Bavaria-on-Thames with taste and efficiency (he was the one who photographed the breathless Endor bike pursuit in Star Wars Episode VI). Don Sharp is much less lazy than Terence Fisher as director and tries to find different angles where to put his camera. Despite not being frenetically edited, "Kiss of the Vampire" never bores and its solid build-up makes the pay-off (the ball and all its consequences) very efficient.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsNipping out for a bite
By Zaroff on 14 Aug. 2015
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
Ah, beware the dreaded blu ray, bane of many a persons life. This particular release on blu ray in uk, is more than acceptable. The ratio, when not overscanned on a tv & left alone is more than adequately aesthetically pleasing, a composition sits neatly in the frame, if not perfect. It is most certainly not too tight, nor is masses of information lacking. In fact it was even all round. And the audio was full and the usual level of Hammer thud. As to the picture quality, it may vary slightly reel to reel, not each frame is perfect compared to another. However, it is sharp, clear & bright, perhaps too bright but then the original is hardly shadow puppet show. In short then this is a very good representation of the film with apparent grain, with close-ups revealing the actors make-up for that take in glaring smoothness. Occasional frames are lacking pristine quality but to be honest i watch films, i do not prepare technical schemata for the dis-assemblage of films from my youth.

Kiss of the Vampire the film itself, has fine acting, solid support if a little light on extras or village life. The budget seems a little tight. The castle and indeed the plot, is the barebones idea of taking females in their prime from the paranoid males against their will and social etiquette. As such its a decadent perverse version of a cult, warping the sixties sensibilities by opposing a tyrant with ones own brand of compelling power. The equivalent Van Helsing in this film is a black magic dabbler, a drinker, a gone to seed vengeful father figure, so no, you don't get Pete Cushing here. Neither is there any other big name, but nevertheless this stands as a distillation of the Hammer form, if not perfected, and has a louche, languid fin de siècle vamping.Read more ›
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