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    Lust for a Vampire (1971)

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    In 1830, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of the beautiful and innocent Mircalla (played this time around by the stunning Yutte Stensgaard) to bring forth the evil reincarnation of their long-dead vampire relative, Carmilla Karnstein.

    Adjacent to their home is a finishing school for girls (location shooting was at Hunton Park in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire) – where having at least a D-cup seems to be a prerequisite for the nubile young ladies to gain admission – which offers rich pickings for the vampires.

    Having a school full of half-naked teenage girls right next to an old haunted vampire castle. What could possibly go wrong?!

    The school headmaster (Ralph Bates) is desperate to become Mircalla’s disciple, and occult novelist Richard Lestrange (Michael Johnson), who scams a job teaching English at the school, falls in love with her.

    Hammer had originally intended for Peter Cushing to play the lead but he had to bow out shortly before filming so he could look after his seriously ill wife. Ralph Bates was cast at short notice.

    Director Jimmy Sangster and star Ralph Bates disowned this sequel to The Vampire Lovers (1970) when they saw the finished product. It’s a wonderful mix of blood, nudity, lesbianism and some Satanic mumbo-jumbo but Bates considered it “one of the worst films ever made.”

    The casting of Radio One disc jockey Mike Raven as Count Karnstein was certainly a bizarre move (they dubbed his voice for the film).

    Countess Herritzen
    Barbara Jefford
    Giles Barton
    Ralph Bates
    Janet Playfair
    Suzanna Leigh
    Mircalla/Carmilla Karnstein
    Yutte Stensgaard
    Richard Lestrange
    Michael Johnson
    Miss Simpson
    Helen Christie
    Count Karnstein 
    Mike Raven
    Coachman
    Christopher Cunningham
    Inspector Heinrich
    Harvey Hall
    Landlord
    Michael Brennan
    Susan Pelley
    Pippa Steel
    Amanda McBride
    Judy Matheson
    Isabel Courtney
    Caryl Little
    Raymond Pelley
    David Healy
    Arthur Biggs
    Jonathan Cecil

    Director
    Jimmy Sangster

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