Count Yorga, Vampire
Count Yorga, Vampire
PG-13 | 10 June 1970 (USA)
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Sixties couples Michael and Donna and Paul and Erica become involved with the intense Count Yorga at a Los Angeles séance, the Count having latterly been involved with Erica's just-dead mother. After taking the Count home, Paul and Erica are waylayed, and next day a listless Erica is diagnosed by their doctor as having lost a lot of blood. When she is later found feasting on the family cat the doctor becomes convinced vampirism is at work, and that its focus is Count Yorga and his large isolated house.

Reviews
Dorathen Better Late Then Never
SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.
Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Keira Brennan The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.
Benedito Dias Rodrigues In modern era now the Vampire strike in modern city,this time from Bulgaria,a low budge production,but uninteresting altogether,it's very analogous British sexy horror movies from the sixties,despite a bad makeup and costumes,the picture survives till the end,actually the end is a negative point for so negligible final,nevertheless The Robert Quarry made a convincing role as Count Yorga the Vampire!!Resume: First watch: 2017 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 6
Alex da Silva Some friends gather at the mansion of Robert Quarry (Count Yorga) so that they can hold a séance and Donna Anders (Donna) can contact her recently deceased mother Marsha Jordan. Marsha and Quarry had been lovers. What follows is a vampire film with the women predictably the victims/aggressors and the men predictably running around trying to solve things. In the meantime, Quarry is the bad guy with a clichéd side-kick who resembles a monster and has super strength. Good versus evil – can you guess which side wins…..? The film is OK but I find films in this genre quite limited in emotional connection for me. There are a couple of rare exceptions but on the whole, you know what you're going to get. The film does have one memorably scary part that is well done - check out the stuck-in-the-van sequence. We know what is coming, but it's still scary and gets you. This happens on another occasion as well as at the end. This predictability, unfortunately, lets the film down - as well as the comically bad narration, especially at the end. Aside from that, the film is a little dull and just plods along. The bloody images start to appear at the end of the film and there is a pretty grotesque moment with a kitten. Personally, I don't approve of gratuitous gore so these things lose points for me. I want to like these vampire films but they are ultimately boring and predictable. This one scores on the OK-ometer.
Wizard-8 There's something compelling about this vampire movie that I find kind of hard to explain. One reason for that is that in some significant ways the movie isn't very good. The rock bottom budget is really evident in a number of scenes, from the lighting to the sloppy camera work. It's also kind of slow and surprisingly dry with its tone. Yet here and there one can find some competence, some of which is intriguing enough that you keep watching the movie despite its shortcomings. Actor Robert Quarry, for one, makes a pretty good vampire, giving his character intelligence and elegance while at the same time showing he is a formidable threat. The climax is also pretty memorable, and there are a few other scenes (like when the protagonists try to keep Yorga around for sunrise) that come across as pretty original. While I wouldn't call this a classic vampire movie, it does have enough offbeat touches to make it worth a look for B horror fans.
Prichards12345 Personally I found Count Yorga, Vampire a breath of fresh air. For one thing it actually makes vampires creepy and disconcerting again. And if you disagree, fine, but just think about my little cat reference in the summary.Robert Quarry was at one time being groomed by American International Pictures to replace the Merchant Of Menace himself, Vincent Price. And it's clear from this movie why they thought so highly of him. Quarry makes a terrific vampire Count, capable of a charming urbanity that Hammer Films rarely allowed Christopher Lee to display; and fully portraying the demonic fury bit that Lee was so good at. For me this is a much better film than Hammer's Scars of Dracula and The Vampire Lovers from the same year, and I say that as a Hammer fan! The movie does have some flaws, of course. Not all the actors are good and Yorga's comedy servant could have done with a, er, revamp. The photography, especially at night, is a little on the murky side. Perhaps this was just the print I saw.And of course in a way, the vampires win. Which must be a first. This is a good little low budget horror movie that deserves to be better known.