Count Yorga, Vampire( 1970)

TV-MAHorror

57%

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Score

Dashing, Dark and Deadly.

Overview

Sixties couples Michael and Donna and Paul and Erica become involved with the intense Count Yorga at a Los Angeles séance, the Count having latterly been involved with Erica's just-dead mother. After taking the Count home, Paul and Erica are waylayed, and next day a listless Erica is diagnosed by their doctor as having lost a lot of blood. When she is later found feasting on the family cat the doctor becomes convinced vampirism is at work, and that its focus is Count Yorga and his large isolated house.

Top Billed Cast

Robert Quarry
Count Yorga
Roger Perry
Dr. Jim Hayes
Michael Murphy
Paul
Michael Macready
Michael Thompson
D.J. Anderson
Donna
Judy Lang
Erica Landers
Edward Walsh
Brudah
Julie Conners
Cleo
Marsha Jordan
Donna's Mother
George Macready
Narrator (voice)
Paul Hansen
Peter

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A review by Wuchak

Written by Wuchak on Tue Aug 15 2023

**_The micro-budget Indie that brought the Dracula story to the modern day_** Three Los Angeles couples in their 20s-30s hold a séance with a mysterious immigrant from Bulgaria, a count (Robert Quarry). When one of the couples drives him home in their Volkswagen van, they become suspicious of the man. Could he be… a vampire. “Count Yorga, Vampire” (1970) was originally to be called “The Loves of Count Iorga, Vampire” and this explains the title during the opening credits of the version I viewed. It also explains why a couple of the characters (not all) pronounce the Count’s name as e...