saw one from the 50s, 60s and 70s.
It commenced with the “Queen of All Scream Queens”… “Britain’s first lady of horror”, the one and only Barbara Steele in “The Terror of Dr. Hichcock”, aka “The Horrible Dr. Hichcock”, from 1962.
In 1897 London, a woman weds a necrophiliac doctor whose first wife died under mysterious circumstances – and who might be returning from the grave to torment her successor.
Robert Flemyng was a bit shocked to find out that Dr. Hichcock’s terrible secret was a proclivity for necrophilia.
It continued with the first Italian horror film of the talkie era. 1957’s “I Vampiri”, aka “Lust of the Vampire”. You know where the story is going but the style of Mario Bava helps.
Paris. Young girls are found dead, drained of their blood. A journalist investigates these murders while the beautiful Gisele, from a noble family, tries to seduce him.
It concluded with a French vampire film, rather than an Italian one, with “Fascination”, 1979. Which starts off looking like some real amateur production with the band of criminals, though shot more like a professional job. Again you knew which way it was going but a bit of lesbian vampires helps.
A runaway criminal breaks into an eerie chateau, taking its two frightened chambermaids hostage. As night falls, a group of mysterious aristocratic women arrive and the criminal begins to realize the women are hiding a sinister secret.
