“How’d you like to wake up with pieces of cat in your stomach?” Eww! So says one of the dubious, but fearless, vampire hunters in this episode’s featured film, Count Yorga, Vampire (1970). Doc Rotten is still on hiatus, diligently working on the next issues of the Gruesome Magazine quarterly print edition (You have yours, […]
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“Count Yorga, Vampire” (1970): Old and New Combine to Create a Creepy and Effective Vampire Tale
Count Yorga, Vampire (1970) takes an Old World vampire and places him in the hip world of Los Angeles in 1970. Whereas other films play similar setups for laughs, Count Yorga goes for the chills. Two couples are trying to deal with the pernicious anemia that seems to be striking the women in the group […]