Monthly Film Bulletin

That is a resounding...

In the interests of balance, though, here is a review from the Monthly Film Bulletin.

Despite its exploitative title, Hammer's second excursion into the territory of Lufanus Carmilla is, like the Vampire Lovers, reasonably in keeping with the spirit of the original.

Jut Stensgaard's Mercalla effectively exudes an aura of utterly sensual evil, and Ralph Bates is excellent as the occult scholar who becomes infatuated with her, while Le Fanu's claustrophobic girl's dormitory world is nicely evoked in images.

Which I keep imagining reading that in a Frasier Crane-like voice.

Ooh, menace! A woman from Monthly Film Bulletin noted that the immediately striking aspect of the movie is its serious tone in an era where horror films such as Nightmare on Elm Street and Evil Dead particularly tend to have a broadly comedic tone to it, this film is more serious in terms of this.

Honestly, it's not going to be playing soon.

You can't please everyone.

Well, that's how we met because you wanted to interview me.

But beyond being the Truffaut of smut, I'm going to get into what that means, and beyond being a journalist for publications such as the Radio Times, Monthly Film Bulletin, you, yeah, Radio Times, there it is.

Next week's issue.

Actually, you're a screen, you're a writer, you're a film writer.