Celebrating its release 52 years ago on October 4, 1970, Greg has chosen the Hammer film “The Vampire Lovers” for our viewing pleasure this week. Join Greg and Karen as they discuss the film while they enjoy a Carmilla “Useless Vampire” Cocktail. The recipe that Greg found on YouTube.com is below.

Carmilla “Useless Vampire” Recipe

• 1 1/2 oz gin
• 3/4 oz lemon juice
• 1/2 oz blood orange syrup
• 1/2 oz pomegranate syrup
• dash of bitters

Instructions:

1. Shake and serve in a iced glass.
   

A Brief Synopsis: A peaceful hamlet in 18th-century Eastern Europe is home to a female vampire with lesbian tendencies who ravages the townsfolk. Years earlier she killed off all of her fellow vampires. Adapted from J Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla”.

Some of the topics discussed and highlights of this episode include:

• What exactly is a “Hamlet”?
  
• Karen makes a reference to the “Red Shirted Ensign” from “Star Trek”.
  
• What is a “Duchy”?
  
• Greg recognizes one of the actors from the 1951 version of “Scrooge”.
  
• Karen teaches us all about wild garlic.
  
• We learn that both Greg and Karen took German in High School.
  
• This film is part one of the “Karnstein Trilogy”.
  
• We learn a little about the source material for the film, the novella “Carmilla”, written by Sheridan Le Fanu in 1872.
  

Our rating of the film:

This movie was OK. It took us 3 cocktails to get through it.

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