A group of friends go on
a search for their friend named Richard
Fountain (Patrick Mower) who has been
missing and is an English Oxford student
and travel to Greece where he is last
seen.
They find shocking results on their
search for him as some murders have been
committed with their necks bloodily
bitten and not believing that Richard
would be responsible for this they keep
searching for him until they catch under the spell
of a beautiful vampiress named Chriseis
(Imogen Hassall), whose blood-sucking
methods include the use of sado-masochism
and others residing their hideout which
involves drugs and orgiastic rituals.
Everyone thought that they killed her and
that Richard was safe but he is not the
same anymore aware that he is a vampire
and behaves very strangely and is hungry
for blood.
I was thinking to
myself is this actually a horror film?
well it is with a bad story as it takes
forever to get to the horror parts as
there's not many scene's with the
vampires and done very amateurishly too.
We get a good performance but the story
is extremely slacking and slow too which
doesn't make up for it giving this one a
total bomb and it ends just when you
think something exciting is going to
happen. There are better vampire flicks
than this folks as it doesn't look like a
vampire story at all.
The acting is not
too bad for the most part like Patrick
Macnee who was always a very good
character actor with his charming
attitude and outgoing behavior too
knowing his craft with what he had to do.
He is impressive in his role thank god
compared to a bad story like this and
never fails to show his stuff.
Johnny Sekka pulls it off well
knowing how to do battling moments with
his foes and brings alot of energy with
his whole performance trying everything
he had to do and not disappointing the
viewers with his talented skills. He was
good when he had to be aggressive when
necessary.
Peter Cushing stood out the most
with his part in the film but again he
always had plus had a creepy appeal to
his role even if he was playing a sane
character. He brought his words out very
clearly too.
Madeleine Hinde does an impressive
job with her bitchy attitude and was
great being argumentive along showing the
odd intensity too.
Patrick
Mower studied his role well and knew
how to act still and expressionless for
his first scene while being in a trance
and then knew how to act disturbing too
when he is hungry for blood.
Imogen Hassall showed a nice evil
attitude to her part in the film and had
the perfect looks for her character as a
vampiress. A shame we didn't see too much
of it.
There's many full body
shots on some women making out with close
to male body shots too for the story to
start which looked very exploitive.
There's a bloody
neck bite but it looks very phony.
There's a good
artsy sex scenes with many cast members
making out and showing 3D type effects
which psychs you out a bit.
We spot a good shot with a corpse lying
on the ground with supporting actress Theodosia
Elefthreadon screaming after
spotting this corpse which looked fairly
impressive.
We spot many pointless dialogues with
actors like Patric Macnee, Johnny
Sekka and Madeleine
Hinde having discussions and
arguments about situations and the trip
up to their destination which seemed very
roughly done.
We do spot a good hallucination shot on Patrick
Mower standing near an area with
boulder crashing over him and Hinde
screaming frightened
There's some good fighting sequences with
Macnee and Sekka
against a cult of people in a cave along
with a good shot on Mower
sitting in a trance.
We do spot a good moment with Mower
lying down trying to force out his words
acting out of it along with a later scene
raising his hands in the air trying to
summon something up outside.
There's a good shot on Macnee
trying to dodge some boulders but the
boulders look totally fake along with a
good struggling moment on him hanging
from a cliff.
There's a good disturbing moment with Hinde
trying to cuddle up with Mower and he
brushes her off while he's busy typing up
something which seemed like a
pre-drection to The Shining.
Then we have a good shot on Imogen
Hassal's eyes looking evil and Mower
really losing control and falling to the
ground.
We have a good announcement with Peter
Cushing at a banquet which was done
in a nice style introducing Mower and
then Mower does good acting in a rage
towards everyone in which this was
tensely directed in a horror like
fashion.
There's a good make out scene between
Mower and Hinde on a bed and then him
getting vicious by biting her neck with
her screaming in pain.
There's many good shots with both Mower
and Sekka chasing after one
another on top of a school building
trying to keep balance while doing so
which looked believeably struggling too.
A nice shot on Cushing almost
breaking out in tears about what has
happened and what should be done about
the madness that went on.
We have some good funky
music with the guitar strumming, trumpet
music and the odd violin playing too as
well as hearing the odd chiming sounds
too. All of this was done in a sort of 007
type of fashion which was put together by
Bobby Richards.
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