A blood disease breaks out in a small European hamlet. Naturally, the superstitious locals believe it’s caused by a vampire. The new doctor in town sets out to get to the bottom of things.
In most vampire movies, the doctor would’ve been played by Peter Cushing or somebody. In this one we get the voluptuous blonde bombshell Diana (Dracula vs. Frankenstein) Sorel. The film is also surprisingly progressive for the time as none of the characters seem shocked that the new doctor is a woman.
Anyway, the doctor is called to give care to a sickly old baron (Antonio Jimenez Escribano) at his mansion. Afterwards, he invites the good doctor and her hot nurse Erica (Beatriz Elorrieta from Blood Hunt) to spend the night. As it turns out, the baron’s son Karl (Nicholas Ney) is a bloodsucker looking to put the bite on the ladies.
I was worried when I saw the running time on IMDb was listed at 102 minutes as my copy was only 85. According to the site, there’s a longer version that has more blood and nudity. Well, if this is the “tame” version, the hot and spicy version must be guaranteed to knock your socks off. This one was pretty damned hot.
The highlight comes when the Baron’s niece Margaret (Loreta Tovar) has a lesbian vampire sex scene with a servant girl played by Maria Tovar. If you’re wondering why they have the same last name, well… it’s because they’re real-life sisters! If this is indeed the cut version, I can’t imagine what was taken out since this scene doesn’t leave much to the imagination. This leads me to suspect that despite the running time discrepancy, this is probably the unexpurgated cut. (It would make a good double feature with Twins of Evil.)
I mean I guess this could be the edited version. There are some scenes where the camera cuts away before the women start undressing. But damn son, the camera doesn’t turn away for an instant during the incestuous lesbian vampire sex scene.
The lore is kind of strange and confused as the people only turn into vampires during the full moon. I don’t know if the screenwriters got their wires crossed or what. Still, you probably won’t care, thanks to the copious amounts of vampire T & A. (Not to mention all the scenes of women running around in see-thru nightgowns.)
In fact, there’s so much sexuality on display, you may even forget that there’s some quality filmmaking going on here and there as the film has its fair share of atmospheric moments, particularly near the end. The scenes of the hot vampire women frolicking around the castle grounds look as though they may have inspired Vampyres. But yeah, it’s that lesbian scene between actual sisters that you’re going to remember The Curse of the Vampire for. It’s one for the books.
There are probably too many characters (although I did like that the servants seem to know a helluva lot more about vampire hunting than the main characters), but it’s not to the point where it gums up the works. I could get nitpicky about other shit, but I’m inclined to love any movie that ends with a vampire bondage orgy in a dungeon. This scene is so crazy that one of the characters is driven insane just from taking part in it. You may feel the same way.
AKA: The Curse of the Vampyr. AKA: Horrortrip.
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