aka Bloodsuckers.Doctors Wear Scarlet. Freedom Seekers.Richard Fountain (Patrick Mower), an authority on Greek mythology, is in Greece researching. Word reaches Britain that Richard has taken up with some unusual people and as he's the son of the foreign secretary, a potential scandal is brewing. A disparate group of Richards friends track him down, and bring him back, including his girlfriend, an investigator and Major Longboy (Patrick McNee). Much to everyone's dismay, Fountain had taken up with Chriseis (Imogen Hassal), abandoned his studies and worst of all there seem to be unexplained deaths occurring wherever Richard was on the islands. But back in college at Oxford, Richard is still under Chriseis's influence, despite her death in Greece; things can only get worse.
Packed with decent British actors, and filmed in Greece, this film still manages to look and feel like a cheap and cheerful quickie. Dashed off in a hurry, with terrible lines and a voice over to fill in the gaps. What could have been an interesting tale of Vampirism as a psycho-sexual release, ends up a confused not quite mess. You can see what they wanted to do, but didn't have the time and or money to produce. A curio rather than anything anyone must see.
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