Twins of Evil (1971)
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This movie works a little a prequel to The Vampire Lovers. This time we have a Count Karnstein. I like the story itself is not a bad one. Afterall the Karnsteins were supposed to be a family of evil, this current Count helps fill in some of those gaps. We get a guest appearance from Mircalla who turns our count into a monster. There are other call backs to the first movie in how the vampires can still move about during the day, but their shrouds they need in death are now gone.
Let's be honest here. There was really only one (er..two) reasons why this movie was made. Mary and Madeleine Collinson. The former Playmates, and the first twins to appear in Playboy, where here not for their acting ability (they were over dubbed in fact) but for their ability to appear in the movie nude. Mind you this is usually a good enough reason for me, but I did want some more.
Peter Cushing is back, but not as the same or related character, but as a witch-hunting zealot and uncle of the twins. In fact he plays a rather unlikable character. In truth his character kills more people than the Count does either before or after his vampiric transformation.
The plot seemed a bit confused and it isn't due to my lack of sleep here. I think some bits were cut out of the version I saw on TV via some channel/cable service called Impact. Pity really. I had great hopes for this one.
This one put my wife into a deep sleep and she is just about ready to ban me from watching anymore Hammer films. I did point out that the Woman in Black was also Hammer.
Tally: Watched 17, New 13
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