Ingrid Pitt in the classic 1970 horror film The House That Dripped Blood. Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/Lions Gate
By Ronald Bergan; Reprinted from The Guardian.co.UK
In the late 1960s, when audiences were increasingly able to tolerate and even demand more graphic violence and sexuality from mainstream Hollywood films, the British company Hammer Film Productions, known as the "House of Horror", decided to compete by playing up the erotic and gory content of their baroque films. During the scream factory's last gasp period, the erupting female sexuality of young, curvaceous victims of predatory males was common. The voluptuous Ingrid Pitt, who has died aged 73, was fortunate enough to be cast as a perpetrator rather than a victim.
Pitt's reputation, which has been somewhat inflated by horror-movie freaks and camp followers, is largely based on two Hammer movies, The Vampire Lovers (1970) and Countess Dracula (1971). She was able to imbue these vampire...
By Ronald Bergan; Reprinted from The Guardian.co.UK
In the late 1960s, when audiences were increasingly able to tolerate and even demand more graphic violence and sexuality from mainstream Hollywood films, the British company Hammer Film Productions, known as the "House of Horror", decided to compete by playing up the erotic and gory content of their baroque films. During the scream factory's last gasp period, the erupting female sexuality of young, curvaceous victims of predatory males was common. The voluptuous Ingrid Pitt, who has died aged 73, was fortunate enough to be cast as a perpetrator rather than a victim.
Pitt's reputation, which has been somewhat inflated by horror-movie freaks and camp followers, is largely based on two Hammer movies, The Vampire Lovers (1970) and Countess Dracula (1971). She was able to imbue these vampire...
- 11/25/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Actor who gained a cult following playing lusty vampires in Hammer horror films
In the late 1960s, when audiences were increasingly able to tolerate and even demand more graphic violence and sexuality from mainstream Hollywood films, the British company Hammer Film Productions, known as the "House of Horror", decided to compete by playing up the erotic and gory content of their baroque films. During the scream factory's last gasp period, the erupting female sexuality of young, curvaceous victims of predatory males was common. The voluptuous Ingrid Pitt, who has died aged 73, was fortunate enough to be cast as a perpetrator rather than a victim.
Pitt's reputation, which has been somewhat inflated by horror-movie freaks and camp followers, is largely based on two Hammer movies, The Vampire Lovers (1970) and Countess Dracula (1971). She was able to imbue these vampire characters with every possible ounce of human feeling, as well as displaying a lustiness rare in British pictures,...
In the late 1960s, when audiences were increasingly able to tolerate and even demand more graphic violence and sexuality from mainstream Hollywood films, the British company Hammer Film Productions, known as the "House of Horror", decided to compete by playing up the erotic and gory content of their baroque films. During the scream factory's last gasp period, the erupting female sexuality of young, curvaceous victims of predatory males was common. The voluptuous Ingrid Pitt, who has died aged 73, was fortunate enough to be cast as a perpetrator rather than a victim.
Pitt's reputation, which has been somewhat inflated by horror-movie freaks and camp followers, is largely based on two Hammer movies, The Vampire Lovers (1970) and Countess Dracula (1971). She was able to imbue these vampire characters with every possible ounce of human feeling, as well as displaying a lustiness rare in British pictures,...
- 11/24/2010
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
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