The Vampire Lovers 1970 CE SF BluRay 1080p x265 hevc 10bit AAC 1 0 commentary-HeVK

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Seductive vampire Carmilla Karnstein and her family target the beautiful and the rich a remote area of late 18th century Gemany.

Year: 1970
Duration: 91 min
Release date: Thursday 22nd October 1970
Genre: Horror

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Stars:
Ingrid Pitt, George Cole, Kate O'Mara, Peter Cushing

The Vampire Lovers (1970), directed by Roy Ward Baker, Shout! Factory Collector's Edition remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original theatrical mono, four commentary tracks, and subtitles in English and German.

IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066518/

Video encoded in two-pass 11.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available.

Subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.

Note : My last upload featuring Ingrid Pitt in a boobalicious 70s Hammer production went over rather well, so here's another one, and it's actually the first in the Karnstein Trilogy, a series of Hammer adaptations of Sheridan LeFanu's Carmilla, and you know what that means... It means lesbian vampires. Very lesbian vampires. Also, Peter Cushing is a very serious spoilsport as usual, and the rest of the cast is a group of solid British character actors. It's not bad at all, though hardly as scandalous now as when it first premiered.

A female vampire is hunted and beheaded by a vampire hunter seeking to avenge the death of his sister. Many years later, a countess living next to General Spielsdorf's estate asks him to take in her daughter Marcilla while she leaves to visit a sick relative. Marcilla befriends Spielsdorf's daughter Laura, who soon starts suffering from anemia and recurring dual boob punctures. After a while, Laura dies and Marcilla disappears. Spielsdorf goes off to find the vampire hunter he'd seen in the film's prologue, and in the meantime Marcilla, now going by the name Carmilla, reunited with the countess, and they try to pull the same scam again on Mr. Morton and his daughter, who soon also starts suffering from sudden tit bleeds. However, the Karnstein family's secrets are coming to light, and Morton's butler Renton, Spielsdorf, and vampire hunter from before the title sequence Baron Hartog are on the case. Will they make it on time before all of the Austrian province of Styria runs out of boob-blood?

This is a pretty decent remaster, although it suffers from a few color problems. On one hand, reds are often way too saturated, and on the other, there's a distinct lack of color information in the shadows, typical of restored faded color film, which makes everyone look like they have a little bit of a five o clock shadow. Sharpness is decent, and the contrast is subtle enough to show off the often very nice gothic sets and matte paintings. Mono track sounds fine, and there are more commentary tracks than you could ever wish for.

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Audio #1 : AAC LC / 240 kb/s / 1 channel / Original theatrical mono / English / *Default
Audio #2 : AAC LC / 128 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by film historian/author Steve Haberman & film historian/filmmaker Constantine Nasr / English
Audio #3 : AAC LC / 162 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by director Roy Ward Baker, actress Ingrid Pitt, & screenwriter Tudor Gates / English
Audio #4 : AAC LC / 136 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by film historians Marcus Hearn & Jonathan Rigby / English
Audio #5 : AAC LC / 128 kb/s / 2 channels / Essay "e;The Rapture of Cruelty: Carmilla in Classic Cinema"e; by Steve Haberman, read by actress Madeline Smith / English

Text #1 : VobSub / 4 216 b/s / English SDH
Text #2 : VobSub / 4 183 b/s / German

Chapters :
00:00:00.000 : Chapter 1
00:07:46.424 : Chapter 2
00:15:03.111 : Chapter 3
00:26:14.698 : Chapter 4
00:31:21.254 : Chapter 5
00:37:07.392 : Chapter 6
00:44:16.320 : Chapter 7
00:49:53.407 : Chapter 8
00:56:21.712 : Chapter 9
01:05:48.695 : Chapter 10
01:11:28.785 : Chapter 11
01:19:54.748 : Chapter 12