The Vampire Lovers (1970): Part 1/9

[comicbookal]

I have not seen this movie in many years and recently purchased the Dvd. Ingid Pitt was GREAT in her role as the vampire Carmilla/Marcilla Karnstein as well as being beautiful, fiendishly seductive, and of course dangerous to be with. Best known as Hammer Films' most seductive female vampire of the early 1970s, the Polish-born Pitt possessed dark, alluring features and a sexy figure that made her just right for Gothic horror!

[Ukka68]

3:12 my god, poor hobbit!

[magicwandfour]

ingrid pitt,the beautiful queen of vampires,in two sapphic encounters with doe eyed innocent maddy smith.does it get any better.

[twiwonder]

I love how he's somehow able to stagger into the doorway with his neck placed just the right way for them to see the marks. Her scream's pretty fake, too.

[scootskybadootsky]

@twiwonder LOL...I thought the same thing!! But, aside from that kind of stuff, it was good. I love the scenery, with the castle and the mist...but I am a hopeless vampire movie lover.

[twiwonder]

@scootskybadootsky me, too

[GoBills4Evr]

Hammer Horror. Still the best IMO.

[junielthum]

Oh..........

[TheProphetEliza]

omg I love Carmilla, everyone go read the book, its amazing!!

[raydio60]

It follows the novel Camilla faithfully, with very little changes......

[2011TREADSTONE]

OMG Ingrid Pitt! I'm definitly watching this...One of the sexiest women ever!!!

[whyareyousofar]

capoté

[leemeires]

i remmber seeing this as an 8 year old kid and i had night mares for weeks

[TheHotelMoxa]

one of the best jerkoff breast movie ever made

[queenmedesa]

In Le Fanu´s tale,it was a male vampire ( I mean the prologue part)

[GODDESSKARENBLACK]

Xcellent hammer! thanks!

[manzrennug]

Best vampire movie ever. Thanks.

[lugger2010]

Ingrid Pitt was best freinds (or as you kids say-BFF's) with Sharon Tate. The 2 most beautiful women this world will ever know!!! Now they BFF together in Heaven, and we will NEVER know REAL beauty like them ever again! RIP with our love Ingrid and Sharon. 

[ilbtsfiles]

Thanks for posting this great classic Movie

[ytdsgdjgfueyxn537]

One unsung hero of this magnificent Hammer classic is Harry Robinson, the composer of the music. This may very well be the best music composed for any vampire film.

Thanks to bvseediermedia4 for this upload.

[ytdsgdjgfueyxn537]

I didn't know that Ingrid Pitt died. It's a bit of a shock to me. 'We must all die!" She said those lines from her heart. What a great actress she was. What a wonderful and elegant lady she was. God bless her, and God bless and protect Poland, her native country. She played vampires, but she is now with her Savior. God bless you Ingrid, elegant Lady. A model for all women.

[ALAJOHNSTONE]

I remember some nice tits in this movie.

[TenTonMonolith]

A Hammer classic! Ingrid Pitt was one stunningly beautiful woman. Its to bad she wasn't in Lust for a Vampire.

[24hrcutedeadgirl]

I bought a big, heavy vampire magazine at B&N a while back, and a giant poster of this movie came with the magazine. That's how I found out about this film. It's hanging on my bedroom wall but I never thought of actually watching the film. I felt pretty silly sporting something I've never seen before so I decided to watch it. I'm so stoked Youtube has this. Thank you so much for posting! I like the girl with the dark hair and black dress! She's like, the only girl wearing dark clothing. Awesome!

[ariesdragon001]

I just saw her as Galleia, the queen of Atlantis. Doctor Who, "The Time Monster". Looked her up for fun and found the sad news. I may just sit here and watch all the Ingrid Pitt I can find.

[mondocaneman]

God rest your soul Ingrid Pitt.

We will all sadly miss you!

You will always be the Queen of British Horror!

[mari66101]

@mondocaneman

My thoughts exactly when I saw this movie here.....Rest In Peace Ingrid.

[ashguy1370]

RIP Ingrid Pitt

[WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

RIP Roy Ward Baker and Ingrid Pitt

[bonhomie888]

looks kinda like shaggy

[deusirae76]

RIP Ingrid Pitt, loveliest vampire on screen ever.

[amihan99]

i came here because of ingrid pitt.

[hogridingfathippy]

R.I.P. Ingrid Pitt

[cyanide336]

I love old fashioned vampire movies :D :D :D no sparkling no guns just nice old fashioned steaks through the heart crosses ect

[BlackVanilla1000]

@cyanide336 Yes, me too :)

[Kiyraesyn]

You know, it takes incredible skill and strength to lop someone's head off...but that was very well done, considering the year this was made ! XD

[Kiyraesyn]

Carmilla, I'm yours. Take me ! XD Cheers, great film. -Kat

[Splitskirts]

Great movie, beautiful women; nice to see Kate O'Mara with long hair and in red ! This and " Blood and Roses " 1960 ( by Roger Vadim ) are really good " women vampire " movies. Regards.

[Splitskirts]

@Splitskirts Ooops ! I meant Ingrid Pitt not Kate O'Mara; my computer screen's a bit " dark ". Regards.

[miramamimira]

TVL is a nifty Hammer horror; well scripted, tantalizingly erotic and funny to boot! It has plenty of atmosphere, the necessary quotient of blood, and some nicely-judged and tastefully done nudity, well within the story being told. There are also some amusingly shifty editing beats, more like counter-comments on the action, that always manage to catch one off guard. Although often derided as being mysoginistic it's a movie that women should especially enjoy. Ingrid Pitt is fantastic.

[StellianAriolus]

Can be killed only by a stake through the heart and decapitation, eh? Already, I know she is stronger than Chris Lee's Dracula- he can be killed by both of those and drowning by running water, exposed to the sun, burned by the cross, etc.

If Hammer kept this rule, Dracula wouldn't have to die and come back to life so many times!

[FangGuy201]

The blond girl was pretty.

[Splitskirts]

@FangGuy201 Hi, yes, It would have been very difficult to " neutralise " her; more likely I would succumb or " volunteer " ! Regards.

[MartinMirror1]

I can see this is unedited the one they showed on tv cut out these violent beheding and lesbian scenes

[StellianAriolus]

@MartinMirror1 Isn't it marvelous? I would've been very distressed were it edited.

[GrimmSamurai]

@muzikman74 you are thinking of "Old Dracula" with David Nivens as Dracula

[7DARKHELLS]

5:43 She's got a mouth like an Anaconda.

[jnorman737]

George Cole, (pre-Minder), and Peter Cushing together, coupled with 4 beautiful girls, Ingrid Pitt, Pippa Steele, Madeline Smith and the late Janet Key, what a brilliant combination.

[83RockaRolla]

@jnorman737 Plus the great Jon Finch. Yeah, a great cast

[Cryofax]

@jnorman737 You forgot Kirsten Betts Lindholm, the hot blonde who gets beheaded at the beginning :)

[jnorman737]

@Cryofax Yes, how could I have forgotten her?, and I also forgot Kate O'Mara, who met a rather nasty end from Carmilla/Marcilla/Mircalla. I think this film ranks with The Devil Rides Out as best Hammer film, well, in my opinion, anyway..........

[Cryofax]

@jnorman737 I totally agree. Hammer made some shlock, but they also turned out a few classics. The Vampire Lovers is easily the best Carmilla movie ever made. Twins of Evil was also great entertainment. Lust for a vampire I thought was junk, but two out of three isn't bad! Peter Cushing instantly elevates anything he's in. Really just a stellar cast in TVL.

[jnorman737]

@Cryofax Oh yes, Peter Cushing was class, his whole "serious" demeanour made any film he was in believable. He was great in Beyond the Grave, Dr Terror's House of Horrors and as Van Helsing in the Drac films with Lee. I wasn't keen on "Lust" either, it was a poor sequel to TVL and the scene where Mike Raven tried to raise Old Nick was a joke, Ade Edmonson and Rik Mayall made a better job of it in "Bottom" Ralph Bates was a joke, but Yutte Stensgaard made things a bit easier on the eye, though.

[nbdy10]

Sword in hand dude is a bad-ass!!

[minuteforce]

-- "shit! where's my cloak?!"

;D

[FightingWind]

Her expressions after she saw the cross were just wrong.

[Liucilla]

It's raining, thundering, and lightening. I can't wait to start this movie!!! Thank you for the great upload!

[Amfortaz]

One of the best of the old 70s Gothic films.

[Capng123]

Wait, did he just say "kilometers"? A bit early historically for that, isn't it? Oh well.

Gotta love that opening though: Head off, sword into frame, roll credits. Awesome!

[humaneffluvium]

Did Hammer get the idea that an undead can't rest without his shroud from Goethe's Totentanz, or is that idea cannon?

[PlusSizeAngel]

@humaneffluvium The shroud comes from LeFanu´s novella.

[GrimmSamurai]

@humaneffluvium it is a belief in some slavic countries

[dannyrose55]

iam in heaven if only barbara was in it

[castingtherunes]

Tudor Gates.  I studied under Tudor Gates.

[leonardo1480]

I have been searching for this movie for quiet a few months, now I have found it, I know how it started and the opening sequence, I just couldn't remember the title

[naffychav]

brilliant

[TheForwardGaze]

Men with swords taking care of business! Woo-Hoo!

[PlusSizeAngel]

Wonderful movie. Shows how great Hammer´s 1970 films really were.

[GoblinXXX]

I like the bit about them being dependant on their shrouds, a nice twist on the "native soil" idea.