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I think it s maybe the worst Hammer film I have seen.
Yeah it's really terrible, lends one or two others that I hadn't rated so favorably a more positive perspective.
I think Dracula and The Satanic Rites of Dracula were my favorites. I didn't expect the series to end on such an awesomely different note but it clicked with me and I had a blast.
Told ya. ;-)
Yeah, they were out of their mind.
You called it there. I had hoped it'd be so nutty and over-the-top that it was a blast but it did nothing for me, past some entertaining fight choreography in a few sequences.
Yes, move love of SATANIC RITES.
As bad as I think Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires is, Hammer was by this time, in their death throes. Desperately trying to throw anything and everything into the mix to keep the spluttering engine ticking over. I can accept what led them to it, even if I think the ingredients just don't gel this time around.
Kinda reminds me of that other great British institution, the Carry On films, that by the 1970s was (objectively, running out of steam). All the way up the the misguided attempt to get in on the soft core move craze with Carry On Emmanuelle. I watch the Carry Ons from time to time, but Carry On Emmanuelle is excruciating to sit through.
They were trying to jump on a few trends, and I'm never one to begrudge an experiment. But the substitute Dracula is terrible and the plot goes absolutely nowhere. I've seen recent Steven Seagal films with stories that make more sense than this one. The film could have accidentally ended up as a delicious stew of "crazy fun" and "bonkers action", but, sadly, it committed the worst sin of them all: boredom. Utter boredom. I'm talking B³: a Big Bag of Bore. I don't mind a film so wacky it makes you cry tears of joy. But The Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires bit off more than it could chew and left us with an atypical Hammer flick that aimed its ambitions in too many cardinal directions at the same time. It's an incomprehensible mess.
Yes! Like I said, it shouldn't work as a film but it absolutely does and is so damn entertaining in the process.
And yes, "incomprehensible" is a great description for it, @DarthDimi. I was paying attention but couldn't make any sense of the story throughout. It was a mess.
Oh, Lust. Yes. :-D I have seen the film a dozen times by now and I can hardly tell you what it's all about. Something keeps distracting me. ;-)
There's a sequel to Carmilla, The Vampire Lovers I think it was called that was truly dreadful. More like a soft porn than a horror movie.
That's why I like it. Ingrid Pitt and Madeline Smith are ... very generous.
It's very watchable, bit not as a horror movie.
True. It is NOT horror, anything but. 😉
I mistook both titles: The Vampire Lovers and Lust for a Vampire. I liked VL, it's a pretty good adaptation of Carmilla. But I think Carmilla is straight up horror.
And back to Carmilla, who can forget that movie :
I love Le Fanu's story. I am astonished how little it is known. Yet the character of Carmilla has, in some shape or form, been in many films, some of which are strange as hell, like Roger Vadim's almost surreal Et Mourir De Plaisir. Carmilla has entered Batman lore, Japanese anime and manga,... Yet so few people have ever even heard of her.
Edit: I am currently watching Nosferatu The Vampyre, the German version. One of my favorite sort-of Dracula adaptations.
I quite like the 70's era of Hammer horror. LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES is one that took me decades to warm to. Now it's actually one of my favorites. More of a Van Helsing adventure thriller rather than a straight up Dracula flick. Peter Cushing is great as usual, unfortunately John Forbes Robertson's Dracula (voiced by David
de Keyser) is unmemorable. In addition his make up is poorly executed with none of the subtlety that served Christopher Lee in his last two outings.
Of course the REAL reason I love LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES ..........
That was a very weird scene, indeed.
Let's face it: there is only one good reason to watch Lust For A Vampire.
Carmilla got overshadowed by Dracula sadly. While Stoker's novel is my all-time favourite horror novel and my greatest "vampiric" love, I think Carmilla stands on its own and Le Fanu explored aspects of the vampire that have never been truly done before. Or after. People seem to only remember from it the homoeroticism. But there is so much more.
On a side note, I'm watching Dracula Live from Transylvania at the moment. With Guy Hamilton. Gosh it's painful.
I do NOT like George Hamilton's haircut here. Dare I say, even worse than Timothy Dalton's 1989 LTK cut.