Carmilla

• Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
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• Genre: Horror
• Movie Type: Period Film
• Themes: Dangerous Attraction, Southern Gothic, Vampires
• Main Cast: Meg Tilly
• Release Year: 1989
• Run Time: 60 minutes

Plot

Sheridan Le Fanu's erotic horror tale -- the inspiration for Hammer Films' bosom-heaving "Karnstein Trilogy" and Roger Vadim's Blood and Roses -- is given a bit of whitewash in this tepid episode of Shelley Duvall's made-for-cable "Nightmare Classics" series. Inexplicably relocated to the American Deep South in the 19th century, this transposes the tale of a young woman (Ione Skye) who falls under the spell of the enigmatic and beautiful Carmilla (Meg Tilly), a lesbian vampire whose lust for women includes a hunger for female blood. Tame when compared to the blood-and-breasts quotient of Hammer's Lust for a Vampire, this Southern Gothic variant nevertheless contains a few shocking scenes, particularly one character's horrific "surprise" death. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide

Cast

Roy Dotrice; Roddy McDowall; Ione Skye; Meg Tilly - Carmilla

Credit

Gabrielle Beaumont - Director, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Short Story Author

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