Tommy dismisses it, but vampire women rise from their graves. Featured in The Count Yorga Collection Order in the UK: https://bit.ly/3BmH1cl Order in the US: https://bit.ly/3zjmHWu Count Yorga, Vampire was among the fi. A woman named Donna hosts a sance in hopes of contacting her recently deceased mother. They also wear no shoes . Both films were presented in the widescreen format, and included original theatrical trailers. Perhaps best of all is the wholly credible reaction of the guys (Michael Murphy and Michael Macready, the latter also serving as producer, and whose father, hissable character actor George Macready, provides the wonderfully dreary intro narration to the film) to the horror that has entered their lives. Probably the most underrated vampire in cinema history, Count Yorga is a favorite horror character of mine. Dr. James 'Jim' Hayes (Roger Perry), who is a family friend, sees Erica drinking the blood of a cat and he believes that Count Yorga is a vampire. In the meantime, Quarry is the bad guy with a clichd side-kick who resembles a monster and has super strength. She wears a variety of clothing in the film prior to her turning, but upon ultimately joining Yorga's coven. Transposing the vampire legend into modern-day Los Angeles was not without its hurdles for the writers. But Quarry didnt find success until taking on the role of the dashing, dark, and deadly Count Yorga for AIP. The ending, which I won't spoil, is also a bit confusing as to what actually takes place. They enlist the aid of blood specialist Perry, who acts as a sort of modern day Van Helsing, trying to come up with ways to combat the vampire. Erica gets bite marks on her neck, but she can't remember what happened. "[6] David Pirie of The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote that Count Yorga had been resurrected "with considerably more enterprise and panache than before." As I said, an entirely realistic series of responses that really aids the viewer in buying in to the story. Marsha and Quarry had been lovers. Yorga distracts Hayes and strengthens his hypnotic control over Donna. Promising her immortality, he seduces Erica, drains her of her remaining blood, and takes her body back to his manor. But I loved it so much, this was just such a scary film to me, well, I'd say I grew up since then, so just giving a review from a new perspective. With his last breath, Hayes tells Michael where Donna is. They chase Michael and Donna downstairs until repelled by Michael's cross. Count Yorga, Vampire was shot on location in Los Angeles, CA, where the story is set. The film is very talky at the start, which can be a little bit annoying as the pace is very slow - but what Yorga is saying is interesting, and it really isn't long before the film starts properly. Macready, who produced and directed the film (and enlisted his more famous father to provide a ripe, flavorful voice-over), while nice enough looking, is almost laughably expressionless and wooden during most of his screen time. Count Yorga, himself, is a very close-cut Dracula clone in the traditional sense of things. ; Piet Plagiarism: After Yorga finishes feeding on Erica and making her into his bride, Brudah carries her body like this in her newly vamped form down into Yorga's throne room . Thomas Yvonne Wilder as Jennifer Produced by Michael Macready Music by Bill Marx Directed by Bob Kellian Photographed by Bill Butler Return of Count Yorga, The (Blu-ray) Anthony Arrigo |. The first character to suggest that the Count may be a vampire is Dr. Jim Hayes (Roger Perry); when the good doctor (whos in bed with an attractive, but daft young lady) calls the police to tell them theyre most likely dealing with a vampire, hes laughed off the phone as the 47th nut talking about vampires. "Count Yorga" doesn't distinguish itself in any interesting ways from this pack. Just as he does, Erica, now a vampire and completely under Yorga's control, and a fellow redheaded vampire charge into the room to kill him. Even Van Helsing had a hard time convincing his peers and the authorities of supernatural goings-on in the 1800s, and that became increasingly difficult in the 70s and 80s. The story starts properly once he has bitten one of the young women, who is later found with massive blood lossand feasting on the family cat Count Yorga, Vampire, I remember seeing this movie as a kid and it scared the heck out of me. Screen:'Count Yorga, Vampire' and 'The Crimson Cult' Bow at Local Theaters", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Count_Yorga,_Vampire&oldid=1146722089, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 26 March 2023, at 15:41. The film was given a second VHS release by MGM Home Entertainment in September 2000. American International Pictures had planned at one stage to revive Count Yorga as an adversary for Dr. Anton Phibes in Dr. Phibes Rises Again. Cynthia mentions the "Santa Ana winds" which the pastor states are an evil omen. a Bob Kelljan production, it's written and directed by him. Donna screams, which brings it to a halt. Count Yorga is one of those films that came from the 70's, in my opinion, a very sexy vampire film, sort of soft core in some ways. It was one of the first movies I saw on videotape. When CBS ran the movie in the 1970s on its Friday Night Late Movie, the on-screen title was Yorga Returns. Some friends gather at the mansion of Robert Quarry (Count Yorga) so that they can hold a sance and Donna Anders (Donna) can contact her recently deceased mother Marsha Jordan. Shortly after, Paul and Michael discuss the strange changes in Erica's behavior. You have to know what you're in for when you sit down to watch a movie like "Count Yorga." After sex they settle in to sleep. One would think a movie called the best horror film of the year by Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune would end up on countless greatest horror films lists. On top of this, we hear narration telling us a bit about vampire legends. Though Yorga is dead, his evil lives on as those who know of him are either dead or turned into vampires and will carry out his curse. The brides wear a variety of night robes. After taking the Count home, Paul and Erica are waylayed, and next the day, a listless Erica is diagnosed by their doctor as having lost a lot of blood. Cynthia herself is subdued, but unharmed and carried by the brides to Yorga's residence where she awakens. That night, he returns to his manor and a makeshift throne room overlooking several coffins, greeted by Brudda, Yorga's hulking, disfigured valet, and the female vampires from the cemetery. Though Count Yorga is referred to as "the Deathmaster" in publicity for this film, a later film called The Deathmaster, also starring Robert Quarry as a vampire, has no relation to the Count Yorga series. ; Made of Iron: Barring a gunshot and a fatal stab, the man can take a lot of punishment. Count Yorga, Vampire Special Effects . When the women don't respond to their question and continue tho silently advance on them. Arkoff retitled the film COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE, explaining that nobody would know how to pronounce Iorga and that horror fans would be turned off by the loves of, particularly with the absence of any sex sequences. These are minor quibbles, however, as The Return of Count Yorga certainly worked for some audiences in 1971 when it was released, but it wasn't as big of a hit as its predecessor. Upon finding Erica missing, Paul rashly goes to Yorga's mansion to rescue her. That evening, Reverend Thomas phones Jennifer, but it is revealed she lies dead on her bed with a large knife sticking out of her chest. As she mocks him for "not loving her anymore" and soon starts laughing cruelly at him when he sense something wrong, her fellow brides attack Jason from behind. At those points, Perry especially shines as a fitting nemesis. Following a jarring and somewhat harrowing experience in the sance, the party breaks up and young Murphy and Lang give Quarry a ride home. Robert Quarry is the man as Count Yorga, and what's up with the coffin movers? The films climax features our heroes storming Yorgas home at dusk, having overslept despite their plan to attack during daylight hours. Marx was not a prince of darkness, but Hollywood royalty all the same: the adopted son of Harpo Marx and Susan Flemming, Marx had begun arranging music for his father at 16. Bloodsuckers were rife in the 1970s, from gothic Hammer horror to European arthouse sleaze (Rollin and Franco) to kung-fu vampires to more contemporary takes on the genre, such as Romero's Martin, and this film from writer/director Bob Kelljan. Seeing Dracula in seventies Los Angeles makes for a rather different atmosphere surrounding the tale, but it's definitely a welcome one and one that has influenced many films since the release of this one. Later, Baldwin finally finds the half-mind-controlled Cynthia and attempts to escape; however, he is nearly beaten by Brudda. She is trying to connect with her recently deceased mother, who was also the lover of Quarry from three weeks prior to her death. The result is a pretty silly show. Horror / Thriller (1970) 90 minutes ~ Color Sixties' couples: Michael and Donna, and Paul and Erica become involved with the intense Count Yorga at a Los Angeles seance, the Count, having latterly been involved with Erica's just-dead mother. User Ratings However, the visible snags are all part of the charm, for the most part. Total 70's action her folks. Robert Quarry ('Dr Phibes Rises Again') is excellent as Yorga. Count Yorga was something of a departure for vampire films in the seventies due to the fact that it's star isn't a bloodthirsty maniac, but rather a dapper and respectable rich bachelor, who happens to be a vampire. We first meet Count Yorga at a seance he holds for a group of friends, one of which has just lost her mother. Yorga attacks them, knocking out Paul and biting Erica. There's even a henchman who's (apparently) a werewolf! Bruddah tosses Jason's body into the throne/coffin room for the brides, including Ellen and newly vampiric Mitzi, to feed upon. Count Yorga, Vampire has been the subject of several home video releases in nearly all formats since the 1980s. Made on a decidedly low budget, this contemporary vampire story is noted for placing a Dracula-like figure in a modern setting for perhaps the first time and for the captivating performance of Quarry in the title role. Its easy to pick out where the money shots would have occurred, had YORGA been shot as a skin flick: A love scene in a van on Yorgas estate, the girl-on-girl action in his dungeon, and what was probably intended as a masturbation scene when Erica is visited by the Count by night, a more explicitly erotic sequence inspired by a similar, more transgressive sequence in 1931s DRACULA. Count Yorga, Vampire Director: Bob Kelljan Starring: Robert Quarry, Roger Perry, Michael Murphy, Michael Macready, Donna Anders Country: United States Running Time: 93 Min Year: 1970 BBFC Certificate: 15 The Count Yorga movies have been lurking at the seedier end of the video shelf since the seventies, and many have wondered what horrors they hold. They said will you do it? Michael reaches upstairs and confronts Yorga and Donna's mother. They transported Christopher Lees Count and Peter Cushings Van Helsing to swinging London, sinking his fangs into a modish group of attractive young people (including Caroline Munro) in, The 80s saw a slew of modern-day vampire tales with Tony Scotts, [FANTASIA FEST 2020] LUCKY: TROUBLE EVERY DAY, [FANTASIA FEST 2020] HAIL TO THE DEADITES GIVES US SOME SUGAR, BABY, highly influential take on the vampire mythos. with some remnants of the original plot left in. 1970 : 5 (0) Gas-s-s-s Sound/Sound Designer . Good subdued erotica, as the bat-toothed girls slink around in filmy gowns. Not long after they leave, Donna reveals to the others that she knows Yorga because he was her mother's boyfriend. What follows is a vampire film with the women predictably the victims/aggressors and the men predictably running around trying to solve things. They take on Yorga and his harem of vampire brides, but just as it appears our modern-day Van Helsing has defeated evil once and for all, a final shock predating, Lest one believes that the quest for the PG-13 rated horror film (read: more teenagers in the seats, and more money in studios pockets) is a new development, the filmmakers had to submit. the only other name i recognize is the narrator, George Macready; he was the nightclub owner in the awesome film Gilda, from 1946. pretty good. and apparently eats the family cat, but that scene seems to have been removed from the version I saw on Comet channel. They transported Christopher Lees Count and Peter Cushings Van Helsing to swinging London, sinking his fangs into a modish group of attractive young people (including Caroline Munro) in DRACULA A.D, 1972. The next morning, Jennifer, the Nelsons' mute maid, finds the massacre scene along with Tommy and calls the police. Their angry boyfriends decide to team up together to try and put an end to the Count's midnight snacks. He also intends to take a new wife, while feeding his bevy of female vampires. By what name was The Return of Count Yorga (1971) officially released in Canada in English? Ohhow could I forget to mention the count's brides; possibly the scariest-looking, fastest-moving bunch you've ever seen! This was really the first vampire film that treated them as swift and animalistic. With Yorga stunned by the action, Baldwin uses the moment to throw Yorga off the balcony, and he lay motionless on the pavement below, dead. Meanwhile, Hammer Productions, which all but cornered the vampire market throughout the 60s, found themselves playing catch-up. Everyone at the seance agrees that the Count is refined, well-mannered, and eloquent. Despite knowing how dangerous their chances are, they stock up on stakes and makeshift crosses before heading to Yorga's mansion as night falls. Lest one believes that the quest for the PG-13 rated horror film (read: more teenagers in the seats, and more money in studios pockets) is a new development, the filmmakers had to submit YORGA to the MPAA six times in order to receive a GP rating (equivalent to todays PG). Eventually O'Connor is separated in the brides' throne/coffin room by a shutter and immediately attacked from behind and bitten by the witch (also a vampire) as Madden helplessly listens to O'Connor's death-screams. See production, box office & company info, Cool horror bits, add up to a strange mix, but a fun film, Elvira's Movie Macabre: The Return of Count Yorga. He also intends to take a new wife, while feeding his bevy of female vampires. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. This film's color palette is one aspect of this transfer I found exceptionally pleasing. Paul (Michael Murphy) and Erica Landers (Judith Lang) drive Count Yorga home in an isolated manor and in the return, their Kombi gets mysteriously stuck in the mud. The following day when Paul and Erica return to the city, Paul tells Michael about the attack. This time, the Count (played by Robert Quarry), having purchased an old mansion in California, is terrorising the nearby Westwood Orphanage. Initially conceived as a sort of T & A horror flick, it eventually morphed into a standard horror outing, though some sexually prominent elements remain. This isnt the tragic, romantic vamp featured in so many gothic tales; Quarrys take on the Count displayed both a dry sense of humor, a proto-Studio 54 sleaziness, and a mouth full of fangs. Quarry would appear in another independent production, THE DEATHMASTER in 1973 which featured the actor as a vampire hippie guru modeled after Charles Manson. Yorga's Brides are a collection of unnamed vampire bries seen in The Return of Count Yorga, the sequel to Count Yorga, Vampire. He also intends to take a new wife, while feeding his bevy of female vampires. The sance turns slightly chaotic, and Donna's friends begin to suspect that there's something odd about the Count, especially when they learn that he had been dating Donna's mother, requested that she not be cremated, as her earlier wishes had it, but didn't turn up at the funeral. Due to Yorga's hypnotic suggestions, she has no memory of the attack. One of the female character turned within the movie. The 1970s produced acclaimed horror films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Exorcist, Jaws, Carrie, and Halloween. Michael and Hayes switch places to keep Yorga off his guard, but Yorga becomes increasingly insistent that it is late and his guests must leave. Originally released in 1970, the first of his movies, Count Yorga, Vampire was a quiet, laid back kind of movie that felt more in line with the Dracula stories that had come before, yet managed to find a firm fan-base, and almost became a huge franchise. He has made very few genre films but he can also be seen in 'Strange Behavior' and Wes Craven's 'Shocker'. My dad was also a fan of this one as well. However, as she does, Bruhda silently arrives drags away the corpses of Cynthia's mother and father to a quicksand pit on Yorga's property, disposing of the physical evidence. He hypnotically seduces budding starlets, and other attractive gals, to be his eternal lover - adding to harem of the undead. They dated a few weeks shortly before her death. It was a letdown for Quarry as well. They are preparing the orphanage for a fundraising costume party. The last shot of the movie is Tommy playing with his ball in front of the orphanage accompanied by a haunting rendition of the song the children sang at the beginning of the film. Like most of the films that I saw when I was younger I watched it on a small black and white T.V. One of the orphans, Tommy, wanders into the nearby cemetery where he faintly hears a voice ordering, "Rise, rise, it is time." As played by Robert Quarry, he is quite creditable and effectively gave Christopher Lee (Hammer Film's Dracula incarnate) a run for his money. Baldwin splits from the detectives to expand the room-by-room search, and upon opening one door discovers Jason's corpse, covered in bloody bite marks with an IV draining remaining blood from his neck into a glass-bottle on the floor beneath him. Thomas is tricked into walking into the quicksand pit and promptly sinks to his death. Prepare to meet Count Yorga. Erica is a young and attractive woman in her age early 20's with shoulder length brunette hair, green eyes, and fair skin color. A coffin is loaded to a truck at the Port of Los Angeles. The Return of Count Yorga(originally titled Yorga Returns) is a 1971 American vampirehorror filmdirected by Bob Kelljan and starring Robert Quarry, Roger Perry, Yvonne Wilder, George Macready, Rudy De Luca, Edward Walsh, and Craig T. Nelsonin his feature film debut. One tale recounts Price hearing Quarry singing opera in his dressing room during the filming of DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN. Donna mentions in conversation with her friends that Yorga was her mother's boyfriend. As such, The Return of Count Yorga is a film with a good beginning and ending - alas the bits in between are often a drag. Director-writer Bob Kelljan called in his wife Yvonne Wilder to co-write and she gave herself a plum role as a mute woman unable to get anyone . But the two despite working together once again in 1974s MADHOUSE had a contentious relationship, supposedly incited by Price discovering AIPs plan to replace him. Meanwhile, Yorga goes to claim Mitzi, killing her boyfriend near their boat house before feeding on her once more, draining her completely and adding her to his vampiric harem. But it's worth remembering that Count Yorga was released back in 1970 at the tail end of a decade-long dominance of the genre by Hammer, whose vampire output had consisted exclusively of period-set tales, and it was to be another two years before they brought their house vampire into modern times with Dracula AD 1972. Together with his harem of vampire mistresses, they wreak havoc upon the friends and family of Cynthia Nelson (Mariette Hartley), who Yorga intends to take as his vampire bride. Variety wrote that Robert Quarry had an "aristocratically handsome look and plays the part with a certain sinister intelligence (and) even a sly humor that befits a guy who has been around for several hundred years," adding that "The dialogue has a believable sound to it, and the playing of the principals is low-key and convincingly realistic. Here, the Bulgarian-born Count Yorga is a recent transplant to California, and we first meet him conducting a sance on behalf of Donna, whose late mother was involved with the alleged psychic. On the one hand, they are early examples of the modernised gothic, taking the genre out of the costume drama and into the real world (at one point in Return, Yorga watches Hammer's The Vampire Lovers on TV - an amusing comment on the difference between the cozily distant gothic and the modern day . Too bad that Quarry never got the acclaim his magisterial performance deserved. As they start to leave, they are confronted by Erica and the redheaded bride, who remain vampires despite Yorga's death. A drive-in favourite from the moment it was released, a sequel soon followed. Yorga seals their exit routes while his brides slowly close in on the two. it's a your typical horror film. He praised the acting as being "of a generally high standard" and the castle set as "skilfully utilised to give the impression of a labyrinth of Borgesian proportions," though he criticized "a totally unnecessary and feeble attempt to make the Count into a sympathetic figure through such lines as, 'The most fragile emotion ever known has entered my breast.'"[7]. Count Yorga continues to prey on the local community while living by a nearby orphanage. Robert Quarry, however, is as convincing a vampire as both of those great actors. Tommy tries to escape the cemetery but runs into the waiting Count Yorga. During the seance, Count Yorga builds a strong bond between Donna, the grieving daughter, and himself. Robert Quarry is the main reason to watch this early 70s, California-set vampire favorite. Several ingredients really help to lift this modern-day tale above the raft of similar competitors. Yeah, it sucks that you're dead, but still, what a way to go, right? Tired of the same old vampires? America was not to be left out, and Bob Kelljan's 'Count Yorga, Vampire' is a great little movie that is often unfairly overlooked. Michael rams the charging Yorga with his stake, killing him. Yorga returns to the manor, awakens his brides and unleashes them through the household as he psychically calls Cynthia to him. In the dark, this is still a pretty intense film. Count Yorga continues to prey on the local community while living by a nearby orphanage. Returning to a small California coastal community to feed should be a pretty routine affair. Michael and Donna rest while Hayes studies vampire lore until he, too, falls asleep. Marx composed quite a few exploitation scores throughout the 70s, returning for the following years sequel RETURN OF COUNT YORGA, its pseudo-sequel THE DEATHMASTER, as well as Kelljans SCREAM BLACULA, SCREAM, ACT OF VENGEANCE (aka RAPE SQUAD), and the sci-fi cheapie, THE ASTRAL FACTOR. Murphy, who would grow into a prolific character actor, isn't bad either, but most of the rest of the cast is weak. COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE (Bob Kelljan, 1970) ***, My Friend Will Have a Hamburger and a Quart of Blood, Please, Another Terrific Vampire Flick from the Sexy 70's, Different take on the legendary Dracula story. [2] The disc was a double-feature release, pairing the film with Count Yorga, Vampire. Enter Robert Quarry, an American actor with transatlantic style and wit. However, nothing was spared as far as creativity and skill. Some good surprises, too. The actor clearly relishes the chance to perform this type of role and brings a gravity to it, despite some of the lighter and campier aspects of the movie. They take on Yorga and his harem of vampire brides, but just as it appears our modern-day Van Helsing has defeated evil once and for all, a final shock predating CARRIE by several years finds evil triumphing over good, in line with the nihilistic themes of the New Hollywood that would take over the film world throughout the 70s. The story is classic vampire stuff, and basically we follow Count Yorga as he involves himself with various other members of high-class society. Most of the clichs of the vampire sub-genre are here, and it's only really the setting that has been changed. In April 1991, the film was packaged as a Laserdisc double feature (Catalog Number ID7661HB), paired with the Vincent Price horror film, Cry of the Banshee; both films were not letterboxed, but employed a full screen, pan-and-scan process. This movie is about what most vampire movies are about cool confrontations with the undead, spiced with some lightweight eroticism. There's something compelling about this vampire movie that I find kind of hard to explain. Overseeing the seance is Count Yorga, a mysterious Bulgarian mystic who has recently moved to the states from Europe. Indie sleeper thanks to Robert Quarry's absolutely commanding performance as the lead blood-sucker. Once again, as in Vampire Lovers, the traditionally based vampire legend comes back from the grave containing the permissive sexual standards of the times. Its revealed that Yorga insisted that Donnas mother not be cremated so that he could add her to the undead harem that he keeps in the old-world dungeon of his thoroughly modern home. After the sequel The Return of Count Yorga, a third Yorga film was planned, which would have featured a broken Count living in Los Angeles's sewers and creating an army of undead street people, but it never materialised. The family is quickly overrun. Meanwhile, in-house director Roy Ward Baker directed Ingrid Pitt in THE VAMPIRE LOVERS, which featured explicit lesbian eroticism. Awards Both drop the pretense that Yorga is anything but a vampire, and Yorga leads Hayes into his basement where his vampire brides lie dormant. Possible SPOILER (if you've never seen a vampire flick before!). His "Count" positioning gives him that old world nobility aesthetic, complete with a cloaked outfit. Robert Quarry is second only to Bela Lugosi in my book as far as vampire lords go, even beating out bonafide legend Christopher Lee whose Dracula performances are legendary. 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