The Vampire Lovers (1970, Hammer Horror Film)

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The Vampire Lovers is a 1970 British Gothic horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing, George Cole, Kate O'Mara, Madeline Smith, Dawn Addams and Jon Finch. It was produced by Hammer Film Productions. It is based on the 1872 Sheridan Le Fanu novella Carmilla and is the first film in the Karnstein Trilogy, the other two films being Lust for a Vampire (1971) and Twins of Evil (1971). The three films were somewhat daring for the time in explicitly depicting lesbian themes.

Cast
Ingrid Pitt as Marcilla/Carmilla/Mircalla Karnstein
Pippa Steel as Laura Spielsdorf
Madeline Smith as Emma Morton
Peter Cushing as General Spielsdorf
George Cole as Roger Morton
Dawn Addams as the Countess
Kate O'Mara as the governess, Mademoiselle Perrodot
Douglas Wilmer as Baron Joachim von Hartog
Jon Finch as Carl Ebhardt
Ferdy Mayne as the doctor
Kirsten Lindholm as the First Vampire (the blonde woman)
John Forbes-Robertson as the Man in Black
Shelagh Wilcocks as the housekeeper
Harvey Hall as Renton, the butler
Janet Key as Gretchin, the maid
Charles Farrell as the landlord

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