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Vampyres [Daughters of Darkness] *** (1974, Marianne Morris, Anulka Dziubinska, Murray Brown, Brian Deacon, Sally Faulkner, Michael Byrne) – Classic Movie Review 11,034

‘They shared the pleasures of the flesh, and the horrors of the grave!’ Spanish exploitation director José Ramón Larraz’s provocative, erotic and bloody 1974 British soft-core lesbian vampire horror film Vampyres [Daughters of Darkness] stars […]

Mar, 22

London After Midnight (1927, Lon Chaney Sr, Marceline Day, Conrad Nagel, Henry B Walthall, Percy Williams, Polly Moran) – Classic Movie Review 6356

Director Tod Browning’s reputedly engaging and rousing 1927 famed silent vampire chiller stars Lon Chaney Sr as Scotland Yard inspector Professor Edward C Burke, who terrifies lovely young Miss Smithson (Polly Moran), the new maid, while […]

Dec, 04

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 *** (2011, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner) – Classic Movie Review 3835

The final episode of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga is split into two movies, as director Bill Condon’s 2011 Part 1 story The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 begins with Kristen Stewart’s Bella now a vampire learning […]

Jun, 11

Vampire Circus *** (1972, John Moulder-Brown, Laurence Payne, Adrienne Corri, Lynne Frederick, Thorley Walters, Elizabeth Seal, Anthony Higgins) – Classic Movie Review 3157

Director Robert Young’s 1972 Hammer Films British chiller Vampire Circus is a neat, eerie and attractively strange Hammer horror about a 19th-century touring circus show, whose performers are vampires, able to break through the black […]

Dec, 15

The Vault of Horror ** (1973, Terry-Thomas, Tom Baker, Daniel Massey, Anna Massey, Curt Jurgens, Dawn Addams, Glynis Johns, Denholm Elliott, Michael Craig) – Classic Movie Review 3116

Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1973 chiller brings five more horror tales of the unexpected that make up Amicus’s sixth portmanteau movie. A follow-up to 1972’s Tales from the Crypt, it is written by Amicus producer Milton […]

Nov, 30

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires ** (1974, Peter Cushing, David Chiang, Julie Ege, Shih Szu, John Forbes-Robertson, Robin Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 2.857

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires is a tolerable experience, but the mix of Michael Carreras’s British Hammer horror and Hong Kong film producer Run Run Shaw’s kung fu is uneasy, to say the […]

Aug, 28

The House that Dripped Blood *** (1971, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Denholm Elliott, Jon Pertwee, Jon Pertwee, Ingrid Pitt, Joanna Lumley, Joss Ackland) – Classic Movie Review 2842

Debut film director Peter Duffell’s effective 1971 four-segment Amicus compendium chiller, set around a murderous mansion, is written with knowing glee by Robert Bloch, author of Psycho. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Denholm Elliott lead […]

Aug, 23

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