CAST:
Peter Cushing (Gustav Weil), Madeline
Collinson (Frieda Gelhorn), Mary Collinson (Maria Gelhorn), Damien
Thomas (Count Karnstein), David Warbeck (Anton Hoffer), Kathleen Byron
(Katy Weil), Dennis Price (Dietrich), Isobel Black (Ingrid Hoffer)
PRODUCTION:
Director – John Hough, Screenplay – Tudor
Gates, Producer – Harry Fine, Photography – Dick Bush, Music – Harry
Robinson, Special Effects – Bert Luxford, Makeup – George Blackler &
John Webber, Art Direction – Roy Stannard. Production Company – Hammer Films. UK. 1972.
SYNOPSIS:
After the death of their parents, the
Gelhorn twins, the sensual and cunning Frieda and the timid,
conservative Maria, go to live in the village of Karnstein with their
puritanical uncle Gustav Weil. Gustav is head of the witch-hunting
Brotherhood and opposes the current Count Karnstein. The Count, bored of
petty Satanic rituals, offers his soul to the Devil in return for
greater pleasures. The blood of a woman he has just killed drops down
into the crypt of his ancestor Mircalla and she appears to him as a
wraith, putting the bite of vampirism on him as they make love.
Karnstein then seduces and makes a vampire of Frieda.
