Well worth the watch!
Hadn't watched this before, and I love Hammer horror.
No Christopher Lee, no Ingrid Pitt (my queen!) and no Caroline Munro, so I wasn't expecting it to be as good as later Hammer vampire classics.
I was pleasantly surprised.
Great sets, some great acting, some novel ideas and very well filmed.
The film departs from Vampire canon in places, but never too far.
The Vampire ball sequence is excellent and I especially liked the piano scene early on in the film.
The ending (no spoilers) took me by surprise.
I'm amused reading the other reviews here saying this film may have influenced later films Eyes Wide Shut and The Fearless Vampire Killers, but not the obvious one that I suspect this film greatly inspired.
A young, just-married couple on a lonely country road.
Their car breaks down.
They're offered assistance by the master of the creepy-looking local castle.
They're just in time for a masked ball, with the castle full of dancing party-goers.
It isn't all bad, is it Janet?
Hadn't watched this before, and I love Hammer horror.
No Christopher Lee, no Ingrid Pitt (my queen!) and no Caroline Munro, so I wasn't expecting it to be as good as later Hammer vampire classics.
I was pleasantly surprised.
Great sets, some great acting, some novel ideas and very well filmed.
The film departs from Vampire canon in places, but never too far.
The Vampire ball sequence is excellent and I especially liked the piano scene early on in the film.
The ending (no spoilers) took me by surprise.
I'm amused reading the other reviews here saying this film may have influenced later films Eyes Wide Shut and The Fearless Vampire Killers, but not the obvious one that I suspect this film greatly inspired.
A young, just-married couple on a lonely country road.
Their car breaks down.
They're offered assistance by the master of the creepy-looking local castle.
They're just in time for a masked ball, with the castle full of dancing party-goers.
It isn't all bad, is it Janet?