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‘Blood-lusting fiend who preys on women! Vampire-queen who feeds on lifeblood of males!’
The Vampire and the Ballerina is a 1960 Italian supernatural horror movie directed by Renato Polselli (Mania; Black Magic Rites; Delirium) from a screenplay co-written with Ernesto Gastaldi and Giuseppe Pellegrini.
The film stars Hélène Rémy, Tina Gloriani and Walter Brandi.
Plot:
A troupe of lovely younger dancers finds themselves stranded in a sinister, spooky outdated fortress, unaware that it’s house to a bunch of vampires.
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“The remodeled Herman’s prosthetics are rubbery and ineffective, however the sausage fingers and thickly swollen facial options do recommend that, in surrendering to vampire lust, he turns into a form of grotesquely distended phallus. The movie has a couple of drawbacks, together with the attractive dance troupe’s spontaneous, but all too clearly rehearsed routines which have a kitsch worth, however little else.” Jonathan Rigby, Euro Gothic e book
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Hélène Rémy performs effectively because the resourceful Luisa, who is a little more aggressive than the typical style heroine seeking safety from a level-headed male […] there may be some curiously absorbing black-and-white pictures by Angelo Balstrocchi.” Lawrence McCallum, Italian Horror Movies of the Nineteen Sixties e book
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“Total, The Vampire and the Ballerina is a blended bag – largely as a result of nobody concerned appeared to have a transparent concept of what to do with a vampire movie […] Polselli and Gastaldi liberally steal from Vampyr, most patently within the “untimely burial scene”, which is a shot-by-shot rip-off of Dreyer’s movie. Nevertheless, though the black-and-white pictures is suitably atmospheric, Polselli’s method is crude… ” Roberto Curti, Italian Gothic Movies, 1957 – 1969 e book
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“It’s accomplished within the fashion of a fairground present, with some well-judged horror results and plot developments which can be something however uninteresting.” La Stampa, 24 Could 1960
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Trailer:
Tremendous 8mm condensed model:
Solid and characters:
Hélène Rémy … Luisa
Tina Gloriani … Francesca – My Buddy, Physician Jekyll
Walter Brandi … Herman – The Satan’s Marriage ceremony Night time; Bloody Pit of Horror; Slaughter of the Vampires; The Playgirls and the Vampire
Isarco Ravaioli … Luca – Mania; The Hanging Lady; La verità secondo Satana; Lethal Inheritance
Gino Turini [as John Turner] … Giorgio
Pier Ugo Gragnani … as Professor
Unique Italian title:
L’amante del vampiro “The Vampire’s Lover”
Filming areas:
Castello di Passerano (exteriors)
Palazzo Borhese, Artena (interiors)
Technical specs:
1 hour 25 minutes
Black and white
Side ratio: 1.37: 1 (authentic ratio) | 1.66: 1
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