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The Vampire Lovers ()

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Seductive vampire Carmilla Karnstein and her family target the beautiful and the rich in a remote area of late eighteenth-century Gemany.
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Marcilla / Carmilla / Mircalla Karnstein
Pippa Steel ...
Laura (as Pippa Steele)
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Emma Morton
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General von Spielsdorf
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Roger Morton
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The Countess
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The Governess (Mlle. Perrodot)
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Baron Joachim von Hartog
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Carl Ebhardt
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Doctor
Kirsten Lindholm ...
First Vampire (as Kirsten Betts)
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Man in Black
Shelagh Wilcocks ...
Housekeeper
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Renton
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Gretchin
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Landlord
Graham James ...
First Young Man
Tom Browne ...
Second Young Man
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Woodman's Daughter
Olga Anthony ...
Village Girl (as Olga James)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Roy Beck ...
Servant (uncredited)
Jill Easter ...
Woodman's Wife (uncredited)
Salo Gardner ...
Man in Tavern (uncredited)
Hubert Hill ...
Man in Tavern (uncredited)
Gordon Humphries ...
Mourner (uncredited)
Sion Probert ...
Young Man In Tavern (uncredited)
Roy Seely ...
Man in Tavern (uncredited)
Roy Seely ...
Man in Tavern (uncredited)
Vicki Woolf ...
Landlord's Daughter (uncredited)

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Roy Ward Baker ... (directed by)

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Sheridan Le Fanu ... (story "Carmilla") (as J. Sheridan Le Fanu)
 
Harry Fine ... (adapted by) &
Tudor Gates ... (adapted by) and
Michael Style ... (adapted by)
 
Tudor Gates ... (screenplay by)

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Harry Fine ... producer (produced by)
Louis M. Heyward ... associate producer (uncredited)
Michael Style ... producer (produced by)

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Harry Robertson ... (as Harry Robinson)

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Moray Grant ... director of photography

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James Needs

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Stephen Hyde ... assistant editor (uncredited)

Art Direction by

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Scott MacGregor

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Brian Cox

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Tom Smith ... make-up supervisor
Pearl Tipaldi ... hairdressing supervisor

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Tom Sachs ... production manager

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Derek Whitehurst ... assistant director
Nicholas Granby ... second assistant director (uncredited)
Lindsey C. Vickers ... third assistant director (uncredited)

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Bill Greene ... construction manager
Michael Finlay ... painter (uncredited)

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Claude Hitchcock ... sound recordist
Roy Hyde ... sound editor
A.W. Lumkin ... recording director (as Tony Lumkin)
Dennis Whitlock ... dubbing mixer

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Neil Binney ... camera operator
Bob Jordan ... focus puller (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Laura Nightingale ... wardrobe mistress

Music Department

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Philip Martell ... musical supervisor

Script and Continuity Department

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Betty Harley ... continuity

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Sue Bennett ... producer's secretary (uncredited)
Pat Rambaut ... production secretary (uncredited)
Brian Reynolds ... unit runner (uncredited)
Tina Simmons ... stand-in: Ingrid Pitt, Madeline Smith (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

The Countess is called away to tend a sick friend and imposes on the General to accept her daughter Marcilla as a houseguest. Some of the villagers begin dying, however, and the General's daughter Laura soon gets weak and pale, but Marcilla is there to comfort her. The villagers begin whispering about vampires as Marcilla finds another family on which to impose herself. The pattern repeats as Emma gets ill, but the General cannot rest, and seeks the advice of Baron Hartog, who once dealt a decisive blow against a family of vampires. Well, almost. Written by Ed Sutton

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Also Known As
  • Les Passions des vampires (France)
  • Die Gruft der Vampire (Germany)
  • Gruft der Vampire (Germany)
  • Els amants del vampir (Spain, Catalan title)
  • Las amantes vampiros (Spain)
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  • 91 min
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Trivia Ingrid Pitt said in a 2009 column she wrote for Den of Geek that "When it came to the nude scenes, the director asked Madeline Smith and me if we wanted a closed set. It didn't bother me one way or the other because I've always been a bit of an exhibitionist so I had no problem letting people see me naked. Maddy Smith, being very British, was a little more nervous about prancing around in the nude. So we had a closed set. Producers Harry Fine and Michael Style were a bit peeved about this because they were barred from set too. They thought it was producer's perks to watch what was going on. Then one day I was walking to the set wearing just a dressing gown with nothing on underneath when I saw them coming in the opposite direction wearing a doleful look. As I went past them I open my dressing gown and said, Wheeeee! There was a spring in their step as they went on their way." See more »
Goofs The fence around what looks like a tennis court in front of the mansion is chain link fencing. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in The Return of Count Yorga (1971). See more »
Soundtracks Whistle Stop Polka See more »
Quotes Marcilla: You must die! Everybody must die!
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