Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)

Review: Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)

Director: Bob Kelljan

Cast: Robert Quarry, Roger Perry, Michael Murphy, Michael Macready, D.J. Anderson,

Robert Quarry
Robert Quarry
Roger Perry
Roger Perry
Michael Murphy
Michael Murphy
Michael Macready
Michael Macready
D.J. Anderson
D.J. Anderson

Plot: 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.

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