Silvia Colloca as a somewhat less ambiguous Carmilla in LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS.
between striking and laughable. Also interesting is that fact that here, in keeping with both the novella’s and the teleplay’s theme of unwanted intrusion, Carmilla transforms not into a cat, but a white rat. “Carmilla,” unlike Le Fanu’s novella, features a surprisingly downbeat ending in which both sides essentially lose in their struggle for Maria. While at the conclusion something has been awakened in Maria that cannot be put to rest, it is also made clear through her literally pointed rejection of Carmilla that she will no longer tolerate any pa- rental figure attempting to control her. Thus, the “new life” that Maria embarks on at the end is quite different than either her father or mentor would have envisioned—as is often the case once childhood ends.
“I did feel... drawn to her, but there was also something of repulsion.”
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After being dumped by his shrewish girlfriend Judy for the seventh time, the hapless Jimmy (Mat- thew Horne) persuades his oafish best friend Fletch
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(James Corden) to accompany him on a hiking trip to mend his broken heart. A dart toss estab- lishes their destination as Cragwich, a rural village suffering under a centuries-old curse from the de- monic vampire queen Carmilla which transforms all of its female residents into lesbian vampires on their 18th birthdays. To appease their female off- spring, the locals lure unwary travelers to the “Mircalla Cottage” where the Sapphic vampires feed on the males and “recruit” the females, much to the chagrin of the local Vicar (Paul McGaan), who fears for the soul of his daughter Rebecca as she nears her 18th birthday. After teaming with Lotte (MyAnna Buring), a virginal German student of the supernatural, Jimmy discovers that he is the de- scendant of Baron Wolfgang MacLaren, the Cru- sading knight who decapitated Carmilla in revenge for her taking his wife as her bride, thereby pro- voking the curse. Realizing that the pairing of the last of the MacLaren line with a pure virgin was prophesized to herald the return of Carmilla, the trio are forced to team with the desperate Vicar to rid the world of the threat presented by the “whore of Hades.”
Hammer’s “Karnstein Trilogy” (THE VAMPIRE
LOVERS, LUST FOR A VAMPIRE, TWINS OF EVIL) had already been successfully parodied by British television in the “Lesbian Vampire Lovers of Lust”
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