Lust For a Vampire (also known as
Love for a Vampire or
To Love a Vampire) is a 1971 British Hammer Horror film directed by Jimmy Sangster, starring Yutte Stensgaard, Michael Johnston and Barbara Jefford. It was given an
R rating in the United States for some violence, gore, strong adult content, and nudity. It is the second film in the so-called Karnstein Trilogy loosely based on the J. Sheridan Le Fanu novella
Carmilla. It was preceded by
The Vampire Lovers and followed by
Twins of Evil
(1971). The three films do not form a chronological development, but
use the Karnstein family as the source of the vampiric threat and were
somewhat daring for the time in explicitly depicting lesbian themes.
In 1830, at a finishing school in Styria,
Mircalla arrives as a new student. A visiting author, Richard
Lestrange, instantly falls in love with her; but Mircalla is a
vampire - Carmilla Karnstein - who has been resurrected by her vampiric
family. As students in the school, inhabitants of the nearby village
and those who suspect Mircalla is responsible start to die, suspicion
turns toward the Karnsteins and their ominous castle.
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