A coffin washed ashore on a Californian beach contains the corpse of Khorda (Robert Quarry), a vampiric guru.
Resurrected, the undead fiend takes over as the head of a hippie commune in the canyons above Los Angeles – and starts to vampirise the members one by one. In no time, he has become a God-like figure to them, and they begin to follow his commands.
The characters opposing the vampire are unimpressive: One is a greasy biker whose mama falls under the count’s influence; another is a meek local shopkeeper played by John Fiedler (better known as the emasculated therapy patient Mr Peterson on The Bob Newhart Show) and then there’s Pico (Bill Ewing), a Native American commune member who, for no discernible reason, practices kung fu.
Khorda
Robert Quarry Pico
Bill Ewing Rona
Brenda Dickson Pop
John Fiedler Esslin
Betty Anne Rees Monk Reynolds
William Jordan Barbado
Le Sesne Hilton Detective
John Lasell Dancer
Freda T. Vanterpool Mavis
Tari Tabakin Kirkwood
Bob Pickett Mike
Michael Cronin Charles
Charles Hornsby Bridey
Kitty Vallacher Olympia
Olympia Sylvers
Director
Ray Danton
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