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Director:
Roy Ward Baker
Writers:
Sheridan Le Fanu (story)
Harry Fine (adaptation) ...
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Release Date:
22 October 1970 (USA) See more »
Genre:
Horror See more »
Tagline:
Beautiful temptress ...... or Bloodthirsty monster? See more »
Plot:
The Countess is called away to tend a sick friend and imposes on the General to accept her daughter Marcilla as a houseguest... See more » | Full synopsis »
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Cast

  (in credits order) (verified as complete)

Ingrid Pitt ... Marcilla / Carmilla / Mircalla Karnstein
George Cole ... Roger Morton
Kate O'Mara ... The Governess (Mme. Perrodot)

Peter Cushing ... General von Spielsdorf
Ferdy Mayne ... Doctor
Douglas Wilmer ... Baron Joachim von Hartog
Madeline Smith ... Emma Morton
Dawn Addams ... The Countess
Jon Finch ... Carl Ebhardt
Pippa Steel ... Laura (as Pippa Steele)
Kirsten Lindholm ... 1st Vampire (as Kirsten Betts)
Janet Key ... Gretchin
Harvey Hall ... Renton
John Forbes-Robertson ... Man in Black
Charles Farrell ... Landlord
Shelagh Wilcocks ... Housekeeper
Graham James ... 1st Young Man
Tom Browne ... 2nd Young Man
Joanna Shelley ... Woodman's Daughter
Olga James ... Village Girl
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jill Easter ... Woodmans Wife (uncredited)
Lindsay Kemp ... Jester (uncredited)
Sion Probert ... Young Man In Tavern (uncredited)
Vicki Woolf ... Landlords Daughter (uncredited)
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Directed by
Roy Ward Baker 
 
Writing credits
Sheridan Le Fanu (story "Carmilla")

Harry Fine (adaptation) and
Tudor Gates (adaptation) and
Michael Style (adaptation)

Tudor Gates (screenplay)

Produced by
Harry Fine .... producer
Michael Style .... producer
Louis M. Heyward .... associate producer (uncredited)
 
Original Music by
Harry Robertson  (as Harry Robinson)
 
Cinematography by
Moray Grant 
 
Film Editing by
James Needs 
 
Art Direction by
Scott MacGregor 
 
Costume Design by
Brian Cox 
 
Makeup Department
Tom Smith .... makeup supervisor
Pearl Tipaldi .... hair stylist
 
Production Management
Tom Sachs .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Derek Whitehurst .... assistant director
 
Art Department
Bill Greene .... construction manager
Michael Finlay .... painter (uncredited)
 
Sound Department
Claude Hitchcock .... sound recordist
Roy Hyde .... sound editor
Tony Lumkin .... recording director
Dennis Whitlock .... dubbing mixer
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Neil Binney .... camera operator
Bob Jordan .... focus puller (uncredited)
 
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Laura Nightingale .... wardrobe mistress
 
Music Department
Philip Martell .... music supervisor
 
Other crew
Betty Harley .... continuity
 
Crew believed to be complete


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Additional Details

Also Known As:
"Vampyren - en erotisk mardröm" - Finland (Swedish title) (imdb display title), Sweden
"Amores de vampiros" - Mexico (imdb display title)
"As Amantes do Vampiro" - Portugal (original subtitled version)
"Carmilla, a Vampira de Karnstein" - Brazil
"Els amants del vampir" - Spain (Catalan title)
"Gruft der Vampire" - West Germany
"Kuolleiden intohimot" - Finland (imdb display title)
"La passion des vampires" - Belgium (French title)
"Las amantes del vampiro" - Spain (imdb display title)
"Oi eromenes tou vrykolaka" - Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title)
"Vámpír szeretők" - Hungary
"Vampiri amanti" - Italy
"Vampyyrit - eroottinen painajainen" - Finland (imdb display title)
"Wampiryczni kochankowie" - Poland
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Runtime:
91 min
Country:
UK | USA
Language:
English | German
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 See more »
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Certification:
UK:X (original rating) | New Zealand:R16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 (1973) | Portugal:M/18 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R (Approved No. 22545)
Filming Locations:
Associated British Picture Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UKSee more »
Company:
American International Pictures (AIP)See more »

Did You Know?

Trivia:
The role of the Man in Black was offered to Christopher Lee but he declined the role and John Forbes-Robertson was cast instead. Forbes-Robertson would also later replace Lee in Hammer's The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974).See more »
Goofs:
Anachronisms: The story is set in the late 1700s, but at the General's ball the orchestra plays a couple of pieces by Johann Strauss (1804 - 1849) and Delibes (1836-1891).See more »
Quotes:
Baron Joachim von Hartog:They were all evil and remain evil after death.See more »
Movie Connections:
Featured in "SexTV: Monstrous Desires: Sexuality and Horror/A Moment with... David Cronenberg (#8.2)" (2005)See more »

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11 out of 12 people found the following review useful.
The lesbian vampire movie as moonlit poetry, 26 September 1999
Author: Forester-2 from Glasgow, Scotland

An ocean of mist hangs above a grave. A figure enveloped in a white shroud swirls through that mist with balletic grace, then rakes a hand across a bloody mouth.* A man at his niece's deathbed calls for her missing friend. The call echoes through the empty chambers of the house and down the terrace outside, where the wind blows fallen leaves through the autumn night. The calls merge with older echoes in a cemetery beneath a ruined castle. A woman walks in those mists, clad in her nightgown. The mists dissolve her from sight. * "I want you - to love me - for all your life," pleads a beautiful vampire turning from the view through a moonlit window to clasp the girl she loves with desperate intimacy. * That same vampire woman stands on a terrace in the sunset, tears glinting in her eyes while she listens to the ancestral echoes that condemn her to her fate. *

Yes, this is pure Hammer Horror: a work conceived as sheerest exploitation which somehow transforms itself - in its greatest moments anyway - to an authentic romantic poetry. Yes, of course, a lesbian vampire movie made by men may seem the height of sexism, and at a conceptual level the movie may be open to those charges. But a female gothic artist was involved here: Ingrid Pitt, whose Carmilla is such a vivid presence as to render herself the character we root for and her patriachal enemies as the true pale-faced monsters (Has Peter Cushing ever come across as less loveable?). Other screen vampiresses are bimbos or boogeywomen or upmarket fashion plates by comparison: Pitt is tigerish, witty, tender, passionate, vulnerable, savage and tragic: Perhaps the only actor, male or female, who has brought to full life all the complexities of the vampire psyche. She's great and the other film-makers, at their best, rise to the challenge she sets. The movie is hardly unflawed but when its accidental poetry gels, few movies in its genre can surpass it.

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