ISSUE 22 by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Format: epub

appears in a doorway. The black-robed witch, flanked by two huge dogs. Except it isn’t the witch at all. It is her greatgrandaughter Katia, one of her cursed descendants. This part is also played by Barbara Steele: a fact which Variety found unimpressive. It commented that she "seems a bit confused as to which of the two characters she is supposed to be at a given moment. She bears a strong resemblance to Jackie Kennedy and manages to be attractive in both parts, which may not have been the original intention.'' However, The Motion Picture Herald was impressed with the “ classic quality (that) permeates this gruesome , shocking, horrifying story of vengeful, bloodthirsty vampires". And New York’s Film Daily believed that “American International Pictures, the company that produces and releases shock pictures that do sock business, has come up with a spine-chilling gasser''. Now the screaming starts. A small girl sees a grave trembling in the local cemetery. A hand emerges, followed by a head wearing a moist, glistening, bronze mask. Javuto's dead figure rises from the grave and rips the mask off his face. Both the vampire witch and her lover have been re-born after a century of death. Dr Kruvajan is bitten by the witch: “ Come to me, kiss me. You will die. But you will know bliss beyond the reach of mortals. . . .” The doctor becomes a vampire. Katia’s father becomes ill from shock after later seeing the witch and, when Dr Kruvajan is called in to treat him, the good doctor drains the old man of his blood. Kruvajan disappears, the father dies, a servant is found hung, another body is found in the river and Andrej is confused. He consults the local priest, who diagnoses rampant vampirism in the area. They go to the local cemetery, where they find Javuto’s grave empty and a freshlydug grave occupied ... by Dr. Kruvajan. The priest holds a sharp wooden stake above the doctor’s face and drives it through an eyeball, through the skull's socket, into his brain. Meanwhile, as Katia is tearfully paying her last respects to her dead father, the corpse rises from its coffin with rolling eyeballs. Katia faints. Her vampire-father is just about to drink her blood when he is interrupted by Javuto, who takes Katia off to her revived vampiric ancestor, the witch. Asa intends to take Katia’s place, draining the girl’s youth and beauty, leaving Katia the hideous corpse that Asa once was. But she reckons without Andrej and a band of torch-wielding villagers who look like they came straight from Castle Frankenstein. One commentator called Black Sunday "the most original vampire tale since Dracula". The trade press was less ecstatic, though grudgingly complimentary, when the film was finally released in Britain. Kinematograph Weekly called Revenge of the Vampire "preposterous claptrap, but quite well acted''. Daily Cinema said the film was “competently acted, but it is the director's skill at building up suspense which lifts the film out of the rut''.

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