Inspector Frank Dorin (Fassbinder regular Adrian Hoven) is
sent by boat(!) to a small village to investigate the mysterious deaths of six
young women, all of which happened near a grotto and were accompanied by brief
blackouts. Although the manager of the inn where Dorin is staying insists that
a vampire is responsible, the Inspector is understandably skeptical, even after
the hotel's maid soon becomes the seventh victim, and has two puncture marks on
her neck. Even the shifty local doctor (Rififi's Carl Möhner) attributes
the deaths to heart failure, although the scraggly-haired, black-toothed witch
Nanny insists that the undead are indeed responsible. Dorin is invited by blood
specialist Professor von Adelsberg (Wolfgang Preiss, Rudolf Klein-Rogge's
successor as Dr. Mabuse) to stay at his castle, which is also inhabited by his
beautiful secretary Karin Schumann (Karin Fields from Jess Franco's The
Demons) and his black manservant John (John Kitzmiller, Quarrel in Dr. No).
Eventually, Dorin is forced to accept the existence of the supernatural and end
the vampire's threat once and for all.
Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles. - Alejandro Jodorowsky The cinematic ramblings of a pop cultural connoisseur, from arthouse to exploitation and everything in between and beyond the valley of the dolls.
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