AKA Curse of Count Yorga. The Abominable Count Yorga."When you've lived as long as I you gather a little knowledge along the way."
Count Yorga (Robert Quarry) has purchased an old Gateway Mansion near an Orphanage, and the vampires waste no time in using this food source. They are helped by Tommy (Philip Frame) one of the children who covers for them. When the orphange has its annual fund raiser Yorga turns up and is immediately taken with teacher Cynthia Nelson (Mariette Hartley) and kidnaps her. After the fund raiser the vampiresses arrive to have their own party, leaving only Jennifer (Yvonne Wilder) and Tommy alive, but with Tommy covering for them and no bodies Jennifer cannot convince the authorities anything happened. Dr Baldwin (Roger Perry) viewing the evidence, slowly starts to believe that there is a vampire about, but can he save Cynthia?
An entertainingly 70's take on the vamp film. It dips a little at times as Yorga 'romances' Cynthia, but livens up for the usual end chase. This is helped enormously by the character of Yorga who is at times swarve and urbane but also scarily feral when the blood lust takes him.
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