![]() ![]() (This sequence may have been shot by someone else to add a bit of spice). Madeline Hind (dreadful she must have been the director’s girlfriend) has a vision that makes no sense at all. Hassall does a little dance, sucks some blood and then falls to her death. We’re told nothing about the leading characters. There’s no exposition apart from a voice-over that gives us “the story so far”. ![]() Nothing adds up and this is almost certainly because not everything was shot. But otherwise, it’s hard to share Pirie’s enthusiasm. The Cyprus locations (shot by Desmond Dickinson, who won an award at Venice for Hamlet ) are pretty. It’s interesting that vampirism is presented as a sexual deviation. One of the film’s few champions was Time Out critic David Pirie, who thought it was “the only remotely good thing” Hartford-Davis had done. ![]()
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