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Vampires Are Intelligent Beings: They Only Eat the Ones They Love

Vampires Are Intelligent Beings: They Only Eat the Ones They Love 'The Vampire Lovers' may be one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented of all horror films. It is often cited as being part of a downward trend toward sensationalism. In fact, it is a painfully romantic film. Mircalla Karnstein, as played by Ingrid Pitt, is haunted by a foreknowledge that the young girls she finds herself irrevocably drawn to will die from her embrace. She does not embrace this role. It is the source of persistent pain to her. Her eyes and soul convey how much she does not want to engage with the reality of what she is and what will happen. Like any predator, she kills to survive. There is little of the demonic creature suggested in later vampire movies. She does not seem to be an inhuman creature at all. Much was made of the nudity and lesbianism in the film but I wonder if this is a film that anyone would be offended by. The central relationship of the film between Emma and Carmilla (played by Madeline Smith as a complete innocent and Ingrid Pitt as someone who has clearly experienced all the beats of this shortened romance before) is one that touches the soul because of that pain and power in Pitt herself. Its a film I find myself returning to over and over again. Not because I can't see any flaws in it but because what is great about the film outweighs them. But some despise it. They regard it as the film that proved Hammer were desperate and willing to do anything to attract the kind of audiences which had once been theirs automatically. There is undoubtedly some truth to that and the idea of the producers may have been to join the sexual revolution. Because I was a child when this film was released, I had already read 'Carmilla' long before I saw the film. I already had that relationship in my mind. In fact, Le Fanu's story is very subtle. The love between Laura and Carmilla (Laura is a side character killed early on in the film but in the book she is the main character) is one of a true meeting of souls that turns out to be tragic because she is really just food. In 'The Vampire Lovers' there are actual love scenes but by the standard of just a few years later, they are almost as subtle as the love affair of the book. The real reason the film transcends what it could have been in other hands really does come down to the incredible power of Ingrid Pitt. She is almost too powerful for the story. Madeline Smith, who went on to become one of the great comic actresses and a very fine dramatic actress too, is so young and so inexperienced here and yet it suits her character. She is not like the Laura of the book. She is putty in Carmilla's (in fact Mircalla's hands). The film also featured Peter Cushing, George Cole, Douglas Wilmer, Jon Finch and Dawn Addams putting it on equal footing with the character actors in early Hammer. But it is Pitt that cannot be forgotten here. Smith would go on to shine in the later Hammer vehicle, 'Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell' even though I don't think she has a single line of dialogue. Music: Underworld by Myuu Is That You or Are You You by Chris Zabriskie Is That You or Are You You by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/reappear/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ #ingridpitt #madelinesmith #hammerhorror #vampiremovies #thevampirelovers