The Blood Suckers
Incence for the Damned / Doctors Wear Scarlet / Freedom Seekers / Vampire Sacrifice

UK 1970
produced by
Graham Harris, Peter Newbrook (executive) for Lucinda Films, Titan
directed by John Hartford-Davis
starring Patrick Macnee, Patrick Mower, Peter Cushing, Alex Davion, Johnny Sekka, Madeleine Hinde, Imogen Hassall, Edward Woodward
screenplay by Julian More, based on the novel Doctors wear Scarlet by Simon Raven, music by Robert Richards

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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But it soon turns out they might have taken a larger bite than they can chew on, being sucked into the evil-doings of Imogen Hassall & her satanic cult - & they might be vampires (or perverts, as it is). 

Still, the gang manages to get Richard out of Greece even though Macnee has to die while doing so. & Richard seems to be adapting to university life again pretty well - that is, until his fiancee wants to have sex with him, & he, being impotent (this is explained rather early in the movie) reverts to being a vampire (!). 

Is this borne out of sexual repression or from Imogen Hassall's bite ? 

For a time it actually seems Richard is getting better again, until, in a speech at Oxford university, he manages to insult every professor who happens to be in the room (& there are quite a few, this being Oxford) then escaping with his girl only to bite her to death. He is finally staked in a freak accident, though. 

Second-billed Peter Cushing plays the headmaster & father of Madeline Hinde.

Apart from being just a little too clever for its own good - explaining all the superstitious gobbledigook away as sexual deviation, only to in the end blame everything on superstitious gobbledigook -, this film is one of these nice little chillers from early 70's England, a time & place where (& when) they made many a nice little chiller.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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