CAST:
Ingrid Pitt (Carmilla Karnstein/Marcilla),
Madeleine Smith (Emma Morton), Harvey Hall (Renton), Kate O’Mara
(Mademoiselle Perrodot), Peter Cushing (General Spielsdorf), Pippa
Steele (Laura Spielsdorf), George Cole (Roger Morton), Jon Finch (Carl
Ebhardt), Douglas Wilmer (Baron Joachim von Hartog), Ferdy Mayne
(Doctor)
PRODUCTION:
Director – Roy Ward Baker, Screenplay – Harry Fox, Tudor Gates & Michael Style, Based on the Short Story Carmilla
by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Producers – Harry Fine & Michael Style,
Photography – Moray Grant, Music – Harry Robinson, Music Supervisor –
Philip Martell, Makeup – Tom Smith, Art Direction – Scott MacGregor.
Production Company – Hammer/AIP.
QUICK SYNOPSIS:
A countess and her daughter Marcilla
attend a ball held by General Spielsdorf. When the countess is called
away by the death of a friend, the General chivalrously agrees to allow
Marcilla to stay. Soon after, the General’s daughter Laura starts waking
at night, claiming a big cat is in her room. She grows weak and dies in
a matter of days from vampire bites at her neck. Marcilla vanishes and
is next encountered by wealthy Britisher Roger Morton with a crashed
carriage in the woods, now calling herself Carmilla. Carmilla quickly
moves in on and seduces Morton’s innocent teenage daughter Emma and her
language tutor.
