{"id":36497,"date":"2022-01-04T03:06:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T08:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=36497"},"modified":"2022-01-04T03:09:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T08:09:24","slug":"the-vampire-lovers-1970-collectors-edition-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/04\/the-vampire-lovers-1970-collectors-edition-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vampire Lovers (1970): Collector\u2019s Edition [Blu-Ray]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A replacement disc program is currently available for this disc. FOLLOW THIS LINK<\/a> to request one. The cut of the film featured on the first pressing has an alternate edit of the iconic moment of Ingrid Pitt rising from the bathtub.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Filmmakers, writers, and artists alike have always been enamored with the legend of the vampire Carmilla. She\u2019s a mystifying vampire and seductress who bewitches literally every woman she comes across, and \u201cThe Vampire Lovers\u201d sets her front and center. While Ingrid Pitt as Carmillla is arguably the central character, she\u2019s hardly what you would define as a heroine. She exists to feast on men and indulge in other women.<\/p>\n

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Pitt stars as the buxom and desirable Mircalla (or Carmilla) a young countess who stays over the house of the local lord. Taking a liking to his young daughter Emma, the pair becomes quick friends and eventually lovers. She, the vampiric predator masquerades as damsels and maidens thanks to her handler. Left at the manors of her hosts for weekends, she insinuates herself in to the family, and eventually seduces the innocent taut daughters of the owners of the house, engaging in affairs, eventually transforming them in to her own vampiric, love obsessed minions.<\/p>\n

While much of \u201cThe Vampire Lovers\u201d is virtually left to suggestion, the symbolism and overt commentary is by no means subtle. In fact, Peter Cushing, who has a small supporting role as a grieving lord who lost his daughter to Mircalla\u2019s deadly sex games, forms a band of grieving fathers hoping to find Mircalla and put an end to her reign before she murders Emma. Wielding their phallic stakes and puritanical mission statements, they seek to keep Mircalla from making more vampires\u2026 or\u2026 you know, \u201cconverting\u201d (grooming\u2026?) more women. Star Ingrid Pitt is the primary reason to watch what is, despite its flaws, a very erotic, engaging vampire romance. Pitt is absolutely supernatural in her portrayal of Carmilla, and director Roy Ward Baker is great at knowing when reveal, and when to withdraw for his audience.<\/p>\n

The Collector\u2019s Edition comes with a reversible cover featuring the original poster artwork from the Hammer Films\u2019 release. Along with the plethora of special features (some new and carried over from the previous release in 2013), there are a trio of Audio Commentaries. There\u2019s one with Film Historian\/Author Dr. Steve Haberman And Film Historian\/Filmmaker Constantine Nasr, one with Director Roy Ward Baker, Actress Ingrid Pitt, And Screenwriter Tudor Gates, and another with Film Historians Marcus Hearn And Jonathan Rigby.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s the audio essay \u201cThe Rapture of Cruelty: Carmilla in Classic Cinema,\u201d and the nineteen minutes \u201cCarnal Crimson: Kim Newman on the Carmilla Legend\u201d with the critic\/historian going over where the impact of Carmilla as a novel, Hammer\u2019s utilization of it for its Karnstein trilogy and how Ingrid Pitt is the definitive cinematic portrayal of the titular character. \u201cFangs for the Memories: Remembering The Vampire Lovers\u201d is a twenty four minutes a detailed account of the film\u2019s production with Film critic\/historian Jeff Rigby. It includes stills.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s To Love A Vampire: An Introduction By Madeline Smith\u201d is a fifteen minute extra interview with Madeline Smith, who reflects on the film and how she\u2019s always found herself championing it as her finest work. There\u2019s the twenty minutes interview \u201cMadeline Smith: Vampire Lover,\u201d the HD \u201cTrailers From Hell: The Vampire Lovers,\u201d the ten minutes \u201cFeminine Fantastique: Resurrecting The Vampire Lovers,\u201d the twenty six minutes \u201cNew Blood: Hammer Enters the \u201970s,\u201d bells and whistles including the original trailer, a radio spot, an HD image gallery, and a deleted Scene. Finally, there\u2019s \u201cReading of Carmilla by Ingrid Pitt\u201d which clocks in at twelve minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A replacement disc program is currently available for this disc. FOLLOW THIS LINK to request one. The cut of the film featured on the first pressing has an alternate edit of the iconic moment of Ingrid Pitt rising from the bathtub. Filmmakers, writers, and artists alike have always been enamored with the legend of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,302,328,477,1401,2123,703,874,1087,1151],"class_list":["post-36497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectors-den","tag-adaptation","tag-drama","tag-erotic","tag-horror","tag-lgbt","tag-lgbtq","tag-mystery","tag-romance","tag-thriller","tag-vampires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36500,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36497\/revisions\/36500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}