Mircalla Karnstein

And I don't want anyone taking you away from me.

Taking me away? Who do you mean? You know we'll always be friends, Carmilla.

Surely you don't mean my handsome young man.

Why, I do believe you're jealous.

Right.

And why Hammer made three Kahnstein slash Carmilla movies in as many years and then just stopped.

Then just stopped dead, yes.

Well, it was supposed to have been a different film, actually.

Yeah, it's odd, isn't it? It's really weird.

Like, who is it? Who's this other vampire? There's a whole other film out there waiting to be made about what this other vampire was doing.

OK, so while we're on the subject of Carmilla coming, Mikala coming back.

So we've got Katya Wyeth.

Mm.

That's where, um, Ingrid Pitt plays, uh, the vampire, uh, Carmilla and, um, and she's always, yeah, biting ladies on the breast to, to get the blood.

Well, I know Carmilla I think is based on an older work of literature.

It is.

So I wonder if it's that way-

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in the literature.

No, I mean, I don't know to what extent this is truly based on Carmilla, but, uh- [laughs]

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Pitt in the role of Carmilla.

Um, but how does she do as Countess Elizabeth for you, Kev?

Well, you see, strange, isn't it, that we...

I complained that she looked too old to, to be Carmilla.

Yeah.

And they're kind of making the same mistake here-

Yeah

[laughs] In this podcast, Kevin and I are watching and discussing every horror film in Hammer's back catalog.

And this week, the Karnsteins are back as Marcilla or Carmilla or Mircalla or whoever, seduces her creepy teacher in the extremely '70s Lust for a Vampire.

If you think all vampires are ugly creatures of the night, then you're in for a shattering surprise.

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And no one's corrected me so far, so I'm assuming it's [laughs] right.

Great.

So Ute plays, um, Marcilla in this, and I think, like top line, she's pretty good actually.

She's ab- you know, she does a perfectly service- serviceable job.

But when they wiped this soot away, it, uh, has a picture of a woman that resembles Carmilla, and it's supposed to be from long times ago.

So they're like, "Uh, hmm, interesting." And, uh, she says, "And now the name is plainly seen, Mircalla, Countess Karnstein." And that's something with the movies that, you know, uh, there's always this Carmilla, Mircalla, et cetera, et cetera.

There's always these, you know, kind of anagrams where they change the letters around and ...

But it's j- it's just the same woman over these centuries that's, uh, doing the, the, the killing.