Author Archive: Mark R. Hasan

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Beta: Corrupt Ones, The  / Peking Medallion, The / Die Hölle von Macao (1967)

Beta: Corrupt Ones, The / Peking Medallion, The / Die Hölle von Macao (1967)

August 17, 2014 | By

This crazy cocktail of Asian exotica, sadism, and search for ancient treasure may have been a production targeted at international markets using an international cast of TV and feature film stars, but this German-French-Italian co-production is still a low budget effort trying very hard to transcend the limits of its budget…

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Hammer Film’s Ingrid Pitt on Blu

Hammer Film’s Ingrid Pitt on Blu

August 16, 2014 | By

An Ingrid Pitt triple bill: reviews of Countess Dracula (Synapse) and The Vampire Lovers (Scream Factory) on Blu + her debut in the Spanish indie non-shocker, Sound of Horror / El sonido de la muerte (1966) !

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BR: Countess Dracula (1971)

BR: Countess Dracula (1971)

August 16, 2014 | By

After sharing the screen with Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood in the WWII film Where Eagles Dare (1968), luscious, voluptuous actress Ingrid Pitt appeared in a pair of classic, iconoclastic vampire films for Hammer, but instead of enjoying a steady career in other genres…

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Film: Sound of Horror / El sonido de la muerte (1966)

Film: Sound of Horror / El sonido de la muerte (1966)

August 16, 2014 | By

This small footnote in Spanish film will maintain a place in horror history largely because it co-starts the pretty Soledad Miranda, and it offered a small role to future Hammer horror queen Ingrid Pitt…

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BR: Vampire Lovers, The (1970)

BR: Vampire Lovers, The (1970)

August 16, 2014 | By

Reportedly the most faithful adaptation of Sheridan le Fanu’s “Carmilla,” The Vampire Lovers is perhaps most lovingly remembered by the many young men who watched wide-eyed as not one but several women bared their boobies in this tale of a vampiress with a taste for pretty young girls…

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