Filmography from Sheridan Le Fanu

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Alucarda, la hija de las tinieblas, Juan López Moctezuma (as Juan L Moctezuma), 1977
A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, Satan worship, and vampirism follows....

La novia ensangrentada, Vicente Aranda, 1972
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Lust for a Vampire, Jimmy Sangster, 1971
In 1830, forty years to the day since the last manifestation of their dreaded vampirism, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla. The nearby Finishing School offers rich pickings not only in in the blood of nubile young ladies but also with the headmaster who is desperate to become Mircalla's disciple, and the equally besotted and even more foolish...

Twins of Evil, John Hough, 1971
In nineteenth century middle-Europe, orphaned teenage twins Maria and Frieda go to live with their uncle Gustav Weil, who heads the Brotherhood, a vigilante group trying to stamp out vampirism. But their methods are random and misplaced and the only result is a terrorised populace. The real threat lies with Count Karnstein, and although the twins seem outwardly to be identical, Frieda finds herself much more drawn than her sister to the Count's...

Let's Scare Jessica to Death, John D Hancock (as John Hancock), 1971
Jessica has just been released from a mental hospital. Wanting to "start over", she moves into an old New England farmhouse with her husband and a friend. Before they even arrive Jess starts having strange encounters, and after they find a young transient in their new home, things start getting rather nasty. Seems this redheaded hippie chick is in fact a vampire, a onetime resident of the house who drowned on her wedding day, and all the old...

The Vampire Lovers, Roy Ward Baker, 1970
The Countess is called away to tend a sick friend and imposes on the General to accept her daughter Marcilla as a houseguest. Some of the villagers begin dying, however, and the General's daughter Laura soon gets weak and pale, but Marcilla is there to comfort her. The villagers begin whispering about vampires as Marcilla finds another family on which to impose herself. The pattern repeats as Emma gets ill, but the General cannot rest, and seeks...

La cripta e l'incubo, Camillo Mastrocinque (as Thomas Miller), 1964
A young woman, Laura Karnstein, becomes convinced that she is the latest victim of a curse placed on her family by one of her ancestors, Sheena Karnstein, who was suspected of witchcraft and put to death in centuries past. Concerned for his daughter’s state of mind, Count Karnstein hires a young restorer, Friedrich Klauss, to investigate his family’s history and locate a portrait depicting Sheena in order to prove that she bears no...

Vampyr, Carl Theodor Dreyer (as Carl Th Dreyer), 1932
Young traveller Allan Grey arrives in a remote castle and starts seeing weird, inexplicable sights (a man whose shadow has a life of its own, a mysterious scythe-bearing figure tolling a bell, a terrifying dream of his own burial). Things come to a head when one of the daughters of the lord of the castle succumbs to anaemia - or is it something more sinister?...

Et mourir de plaisir, Roger Vadim, 0
Young Carmilla is jealous of her friend's engagement, and her obsession leads her to the tomb of a female vampire. The vampire possesses her and leads her to kill and terrorise the inhabitants of the estate. But is it all in her mind, or is she really under the control of an ancient vampire ancestor?...

Vampires vs. Zombies, Vince D'Amato, 0
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