The Kiss of the Vampire
- Edward de Souza: Gerald Harcourt
- Noel Willman: Dr. Ravna
- Clifford Evans: Professor Zimmer (English dubbed version: Professor Thompson)
- Jennifer Daniel: Marianne Harcourt
- Isobel Black: Tanja
- Barry Warren: Carl Ravna (English dubbed version: Charles Ravna )
- Peter Madden: Bruno (English dubbed version: Bernhard )
- Vera Cook: Anna
- Jacquie Wallis: Sabena Ravna
- Noel Howlett: Father Xavier
The Kiss of the Vampire is a British horror film of the British film production company Hammer from 1962 (the film, however, was retained several months and only published in 1963 ). Original German cinema title was The Kiss of the Vampire.
Action
Bavaria around the turn of the century: The prologue takes us on a morning - tarnish cemetery, where a young girl is to be buried. Your drunken father, Professor Room, the grieving village community approaches. As a professor wants to throw Room with a shovel earth on the grave, the man takes his spade to angry to push him in the coffin burst: as it emits a piercing scream, and quilt blood from the ruptured coffin. Professor Zimmer redeemed as his daughter. We see the blonde lie dormant through the coffin with sharp fangs.
The honeymooners Marianne and Gerald Harcourt crash with her car beneath a magnificent castle - the two of them sit the time being. In the nearby village gives the Bruno hotel owner the most beautiful of the empty rooms in his dilapidated flophouse. There is little quaint: Grieving host Anna weeps quietly in one of the empty rooms and covers for an extra guest, who will never come. Stranger still seems the Harcourts of drunk only other guest, a professor room. As the evening invites elegant servant in livery the Harcourts on the magnificent castle to a dinner, take the two of Dr. Ravnås invitation only too happy to. There, in a more sophisticated environment, learn the Harcourts charismatic Dr. Ravna and his children know. Carl is his sensitive young son, a talented pianist, Sabena his charming daughter. The fact that a very young, exceptionally beautiful girl slips shortly after the arrival of the guests in a red dress secretly from the castle, escapes the Harcourts.
The beautiful girl with the red dress wanders through the cemetery at night. She kneels on a fresh grave and begins to talk: why is " you " because not yesterday to " you " come. With the announcement to help "your" the girl begins to churn up the soil until it suddenly the handle of a spade uncovered - so they wanted to Professor Room vampirisierte daughter escape from her grave. Blankly she realizes what has happened and just like that Professor rooms next to her. The girl bares her sharp vampire teeth, the two briefly fight, where she manages Professor Zimmer in his hand to bite. He collapses shocked and the girl runs laughing into the night.
Professor Zimmer burns the mark of the vampire immediately back out. Marianne and Gerald reverse swinging back from stimulating evening at the Ravnås. Above all, Marianne seems quite taken with Carl's piano playing, she replied almost in a hypnotic state. The next day the Harcourts investigate the reason for Anna's sadness and place in the empty room, a framed photo of the vampire girl from the graveyard in her communion dress. It is Tanja, Bruno's and Anna's daughter, who is apparently the vampires as a willing tool. Although Professor Zimmer Gerald and Marianne urgently warns of Ravna, assume both Sabena and Carl's invitation to a masked ball. Anxiously leave the Ravnås the hotel courtyard fled in her carriage, as the sun appears between the rain clouds.
At the masked ball, it is Sabena's job to make Gerald drunk quickly, with Carl Ravna to zoom makes the mask Gerald Marianne. He steers Marianne in a room where she sees Ravna lie behind a curtain in his coffin ... blood running from his mouth. The next day, Gerald has a hangover and is dismayed when the Ravnås throw him out of the castle. One does not know his wife. Send to a bad joke believing goes in the hotel 's nightmare continues: The hosts pretend to have never seen Marianne ( The Ravnås extort with Tanya's disappearance ) and the summoned gendarme can not find something reminiscent of Marianne's existence: is your clothes and luggage continued.
Professor Zimmer is his only ally and he initiates him into the one thing his wife is actually befall: Hypnotized of Carl's piano playing and seduced by Dr. Ravna is you (as well as before his own daughter ) is now a disciple of the vampire cult. Under cover of night Gerald breaks into the castle. He convinces Tanya to take him to his wife, but Gerald is lured by the vampire girl in a trap - Dr. Ravna, Sabena and Carl show him while his wife, who is, however, completely caught up. Ravna explains Gerald the Marianne has disowned him, this haunts her husband even on. Tanya gets the job Gerald in the community of vampires introduce and moves with a diabolical smile on him ... Tanja tears Gerald's shirt, scratched his chest and pressed him with their fangs, what Marianne considered only with a mocking smile, and then with undisguised lust. As Gerald a cross painted himself out of his blood on his chest, soft all vampires back in horror, tears Gerald Marianne with him. Professor rooms barricaded all the doors with crosses and so captures the vampire cult in the castle.
The hotel prepares Professor rooms have a large exorcism, in which the sport through a special ritual the powers of darkness against itself. Father Xavier and Gerald meanwhile keep the raging Marianne them back to return their urge to Ravna yield. While in the castle the followers of the cult vampire gather in the main hall (there are the party guests of the masked ball ) Ravna has gone with his children and Tanja in the tower room. Marianne, meanwhile, can not resist the urge and runs away, Father Xavier and Gerald but they can recapture that men hold the unwilling pressed on the floor while her Father Xavier crosses himself oaks on the sweaty skin. Professor Room ritual brings the desired result: a large swarm of vampire bats rises, all cult members, including the Ravnås and Tanya, are bitten by the creatures to death and destruction Ravnås Marianne is redeemed.
Reviews
- David Pririe wrote in his book "The Vampire Cinema", the Vampirjüngerin leads Isobel Black's powerful representation of an "extremely zealous " ( extremely zestful ) almost to " bring the whole movie from the scale " the ( unbalancing the whole movie).
" Apart from the original final gag (...), this film offers a solid and entertaining average food. "
Movie Historical Notes
- Title of content changed American television version: Kiss of Evil.