After the success of The Vampire Lovers. Tudor Gates was hired to write the sequel, starting with a story he hadn't finished for Mario Bava all about a girl school serial killer. Jimmy Sangster directed and didn't like the fact that Hammer wanted a pop song "Strange Love" by Tracy. Also, British censors saw how many lesbian moments were in the first film and made sure even less would show up here.
In the deserted chapel at Castle Karnstein, Count (occultist, conjurer, DJ, sculptor, sheep farmer, writer, ballet dancer, flamenco guitarist and photographer Mike Raven) and Countess Karnstein being their daughter Carmilla (Yutte Stensgaard) back.
Richard LeStrange (Michael Johnson) has come to the area to write a book on vampires and this seems like the right place for it. He's immediately seduced by Mircalla Herritzen, who is...Carmilla, subverting the lesbian mood of the first movie.
Lots of women lose their lives to the vampire and it all ends in fire, as all Hammer movies must. I like this movie, but I love the first and third movies in the trilogy. This would have been better, I feel, if Peter Cushing was able to be in it, as he was caring for his sick wife, and if Ingrid Pitt was the lead.
In the deserted chapel at Castle Karnstein, Count (occultist, conjurer, DJ, sculptor, sheep farmer, writer, ballet dancer, flamenco guitarist and photographer Mike Raven) and Countess Karnstein being their daughter Carmilla (Yutte Stensgaard) back.
Richard LeStrange (Michael Johnson) has come to the area to write a book on vampires and this seems like the right place for it. He's immediately seduced by Mircalla Herritzen, who is...Carmilla, subverting the lesbian mood of the first movie.
Lots of women lose their lives to the vampire and it all ends in fire, as all Hammer movies must. I like this movie, but I love the first and third movies in the trilogy. This would have been better, I feel, if Peter Cushing was able to be in it, as he was caring for his sick wife, and if Ingrid Pitt was the lead.