Monday 4 September 2017
283 Count Yorga , Vampire ( 1970 )
With the Count Yorga films, AIP beat Hammer to the punch in setting a vampire story in the present day. Yorga as played by Robert Quarry is an obvious substitute for Lee as Dracula. The film is a bit talky at first but once it gets going it's very good. Not one for cat lovers though !
Yorga is a Bulgarian immigrant who offers to conduct a seance for Donna, the daughter of his recently deceased lover. When she becomes hysterical he talks her down and is given a ride home by two of her friends. Returning from his home they are mysteriously bogged down in mud then he attacks them. The girl's doctor, Jim Hayes ( Roger Perry ) starts to suspect the truth about him.
Donna Anders ( as Donna )
Sex : Donna wears a see-through night-dress
Death : From blood loss after a vampire bite
Donna was only active in a handful of films around the beginning of the seventies. She is now 80.
Judy Lang ( as Erica )
Sex : Has sex with boyfriend Paul before Yorga attacks them
Death : From blood loss after a vampire bite
Judy was best known for a regular role in Dr Kildare in the sixties. This was her last film before she retired to raise a family. She is now 76.
Sybil Scotford ( as Judy )
Sex : No
Death : Survives
This was Sybil's first film but she never really progressed beyond bit parts and disappeared at the end of the seventies.
Julie Conners ( as Cleo )
Sex : Cleo is sleeping with Jim and there's a hint of nipple when she's talking to him
Death : Survives
Julie seems to have called herself something different in each film in a brief career in exploitation pictures.
Marsha Jordan ( as Donna's mother )
Sex : No
Death : Staked as a vampire
Marsha was a well known soft porn actress with many film credits in that genre. She retired in the mid-seventies when the market went harder and raised a family.
Deborah Darnell ( as Vampire Woman )
Sex : Big cleavage
Death : Survives as a vampire
This was one of only two film appearances by Deborah.
Erica Macready ( as Babette )
Sex : No
Death : Survives
This is Erica's only film appearance and I suspect she was the sister of Michael Macready, one of the male stars, doing a walk-on part.
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