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Body Beneath, The
| AKA's: | Demonlover, The / Vampire's Thirst |
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| Release date: | 1970 USA | Running time: | 74' (cover 85') - Source: VHS NTSC | Rating: | US: NR | ||
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Director: Andy Milligan (Blood 1974; Guru The Mad Monk 1970) Producer: Cinemedia Films Score: n/a Writer: Andy Milligan Director of photography: Andy Milligan |
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| Summary: |
He called himself Reverend. His church was lost souls. Prissy preacher Algernon Ford (Gavin Reed) is actually an ancient vampire organizing a family reunion. Despondent over his "deteriorating bloodline", the good Reverend, his hunchback servant (Berwick Kaler) and a trio of green-faced bloodsuckers rent Carfax Abbey and, using three of his female descendants, prepares to rebuild the family...
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short review:
Did anything remarkable happen during the last one and a half hour? Actually no! This movie is no fast-paced, action-packed flick. Nevertheless it is a somehow captivitating thriller about a dynasty of vampires, suffering from a deteriorating bloodline (and who are by the way, bleeders - get that on: vampiric bleeders!), who are in need of some fresh blood supplies, which only seems to run in the family or at least through the veins of the related ones...  |
