This is a non-Hammer British movie about a French vampire leading a Satanic cult. It starts promisingly then sags badly in the middle with a dull lead performance by William Sylvester. It eventually improves but isn't really worth the effort.
Count Sinistre ( Hubert Paul ) is a vampire ruling the roost in a small town in Brittany. A photographer holidaying there Paul Baxter ( Sylvester ) loses three friends there but the local police aren't interested .Paul decides to investigate once back in London but is pursued by Sinistre who needs the talisman he has unwittingly picked up.
Carole Gray ( as Tania )
Sex : No
Death : Killed by a rockfall
As Sinistre's vampire bride, Carole plays a villainess in this one. Before that, she performs a very energetic gypsy dance routine.
Tracy Reed ( as Karen )
Sex : Karen appears scantily clad at various times
Death : Survives
Tracy was actually Clare Pelisser a well-connected aristocrat and stepdaughter of film director Carol Reed. She often appeared on the brink of stardom in the sixties with minor roles in big films but it never quite happened and she retired in the mid-seventies, She died in 2012 aged 69.
Rona Anderson ( as Anne )
Sex : No
Death : Burned to death on Sinistre's orders
Rona had a long career as an actress going back to the late forties but her own career was overshadowed by that of her husband Gordon Jackson with whom she starred in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie . She retired shortly after his death in 1990. She died in 2013 aged 87.
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