TWINS OF EVIL is the lesser of the three films that focus on Sheridan le Fanu's story CARMILLA. THE VAMPIRE LOVERS and LUST FOR A VAMPIRE are far more entertaining than TWINS OF EVIL but it still has its moments--most notably an excellent performance by the great Peter Cushing. Mr. Cushing was in all three of the films and clearly has the most to do in TWINS OF EVIL.
The story focuses on two beautiful young women, Playboy Playmates, twins Mary and Madeleine Collinson, whose parents have died so they are taken in by their witchhunter uncle Pete Cushing. One of the girls is lusty and promiscuous while the other is sweet and virginal. The wild girl falls for a Satanist count (Damien Thomas) who constantly butts heads with Cushing. Thomas, who is a descendant of the Karnsteins, becomes a vampire and uses his wiles to seduce pretty ladies.
STORY: $$ (The story is really quite weak. The Count is merely a Satanist and doesn't become a vampire until he accidentally resurrects Carmilla Karnstein, a long dead ancestor, who he promptly screws around with. Carmilla is then gone from the script, never heard from or seen again. The story focuses more on Cushing's role ridding the area of witches).
ACTING: $$$ (The old veterans do an exceptional job. Peter Cushing is terrific as the puritanical witchhunter. He conveys raw emotion. The scene where he argues with the know-it-all school teacher, when Cushing explains why he burns witches, is a powerful bit of acting by Mr. Cushing. Dennis Price, as always, is a delight as the slimy pseudo pimp who supplies the Count with dames. The Collinson twins are better actors than modern playmates but they were clearly cast for their looks. Damien Thomas is too hammy and over-the-top as the Count. Luan Peters and Judy Matheson, who both starred in the entertaining FLESH AND BLOOD SHOW, have little to do here).
NUDITY: $$ (The other two Karnstien films had a liberal spattering of flesh but this film offers little in the way of skin. One of the Collinson Twins has a nude scene and that'a about it. Luan Peters, the buxom starlet of the FLESH AND BLOOD SHOW, has her ample breasts bitten by one of the Collinson Twins but it is simply a cleavage shot of Miss Peters. There is far more skin in the two previously mentioned films).
The story focuses on two beautiful young women, Playboy Playmates, twins Mary and Madeleine Collinson, whose parents have died so they are taken in by their witchhunter uncle Pete Cushing. One of the girls is lusty and promiscuous while the other is sweet and virginal. The wild girl falls for a Satanist count (Damien Thomas) who constantly butts heads with Cushing. Thomas, who is a descendant of the Karnsteins, becomes a vampire and uses his wiles to seduce pretty ladies.
STORY: $$ (The story is really quite weak. The Count is merely a Satanist and doesn't become a vampire until he accidentally resurrects Carmilla Karnstein, a long dead ancestor, who he promptly screws around with. Carmilla is then gone from the script, never heard from or seen again. The story focuses more on Cushing's role ridding the area of witches).
ACTING: $$$ (The old veterans do an exceptional job. Peter Cushing is terrific as the puritanical witchhunter. He conveys raw emotion. The scene where he argues with the know-it-all school teacher, when Cushing explains why he burns witches, is a powerful bit of acting by Mr. Cushing. Dennis Price, as always, is a delight as the slimy pseudo pimp who supplies the Count with dames. The Collinson twins are better actors than modern playmates but they were clearly cast for their looks. Damien Thomas is too hammy and over-the-top as the Count. Luan Peters and Judy Matheson, who both starred in the entertaining FLESH AND BLOOD SHOW, have little to do here).
NUDITY: $$ (The other two Karnstien films had a liberal spattering of flesh but this film offers little in the way of skin. One of the Collinson Twins has a nude scene and that'a about it. Luan Peters, the buxom starlet of the FLESH AND BLOOD SHOW, has her ample breasts bitten by one of the Collinson Twins but it is simply a cleavage shot of Miss Peters. There is far more skin in the two previously mentioned films).