Count Yorga, Vampire/The Return of Count Yorga

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"Victims and vampires even wear mini skirts" boasts the original studio press kit, hyping this blood-sucking thriller about a modern-day vampire who ironically terrorizes the City of Angels. With plenty of sharply fanged villains, bosomy victims and an eerie castle just minutes from the closest freeway exit, this bone-chilling horror story is one you can really sink your teeth into.Two lovers, Paul and Erica make a grave mistake. When they park their van outside a foreboding, vine-covered manor, the new owner ? a vampire ? decides to feed on the trespassers. The next morning, Paul has a terrible headache and Erica has two mysterious puncture wounds in her neck. Now, Paul must figure out just what happened before he loses the love of his life ? and his own life ? forever!

Customer Reviews:

Relive the past.......2007-07-16

When These Movies came out they caused a great stir in the theaters and were renound for there scaring ability, to see them now is to relive the past and to see how starved of good movies we were

a good vampire movie from 30 plus years ago that I remembered as a child being very scared.......2007-01-19

I found this movie at Amazon. I have tried to rent it at video stores in the past and was unable; not in stock. It is a movie I saw as a child and was very scared. I love vampire movies to this day and haven't seen any really good ones. I remembered this one and I still love it. I wish they would have made more.

Fangs for the memories.......2006-11-10

I first saw these movies in the cinema back in the 70s and found them to be soooo much scarier than the Hammer vampire movies of the time. There was something otherwordly about the overall ambience of the movies, with the contemporary setting and handheld camera moments adding to the real feeling of unease.
The fragile chamber orchestra score helped rattle my nerves at the time, too!
Watching these movies again after a period of 25 years I still get a frisson of fear even though I'd suggest older kids could get a kick out of them without too much worry of nightmares.
The actors somehow manage to keep heroically straight faces ( unless the script calls for a knowing look during some of the rare lighter moments ). Of the two, I think Return Of Count Yorga stands up a little better, and contains several moments of sustained creepiness which still raise a few hairs today.
This set comes with a big thumbs up and should entertain anyone with a fondness for this sort of thing. A few decent extras would have been nice but then again - the film's the thing.

Pretty Darn Good Flick.......2006-08-25

I remember seeing this movie (The Return of Count Yorga) as a kid late at night (thanks Mom for letting me stay up late at night to watch these movies) and I must admit that I really like this one. I like the first one as well...but the second movie was a bit more eerie and Robert Quarry played the part so well, you couldn't help but like him.

The Return of Count Yorga wasn't a continuation of the first film. It is just basically another story that involves Yorga in a different setting. I think that if another actor played Yorga, the film wouldn't of worked. It had its eerie scenes, ghoulish vampire women, ugly bodyguard, and the ending had a twist to it. It's really too bad that there wasn't a third Yorga movie.

This movie (Return of Count Yorga)is always a delight to watch and it's in my top 10 vampire movies. I would say that this movie was better than 4-5 Christopher Lee Dracula movies. Maybe "Horror of Dracula" and "Dracula has Risen from the Grave" were better.

A blast from the past.......2006-08-24

There hasnt been any great Vampire pics for decades now, not since the great days of Christopher Lee at Hammer and there have only been a few from the US, the original Dracula and then Count Yorga. It is a bit dated now but still offers a few good frights and I enjoyed it just as much as when I was a kid.
The quality of the DVD is excellent and having both Count Yorga and the return on one DVD for a bargain price is great.
No complaints with this one at all

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A Lot Better than the Average Vampire Movie
OUTDATED AND TOOTHLESS
Excellent Vampire film,one of the best!.
Not exactly Hammer, true, but still great
Cat Lovers Beware!

Count Yorga, Vampire
Starring: Robert Quarry , Roger Perry , Michael Murphy , Michael Macready , and D.J. Anderson
Director: Bob Kelljan
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
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ASIN: B00005K3O8
Release Date: 2001-08-28

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The Dracula legend gets a suavely competent makeover in this 1970 bloodsucker, bringing vampirism to present-day Los Angeles with a harem of semi-clad females and the sharp casting of Robert Quarry in the title role. The film's original title (The Loves of Count Iorga, Vampire) is perhaps more fitting, since it's really about how Quarry--posing as a Bulgarian psychic medium--seduces his female clients into neck-bitten submission. The victims' abandoned boyfriends (including Michael Murphy, who costarred in M*A*S*H the same year) recruit a vampire-hunting doctor (Roger Perry) to track Yorga down (with wooden stakes made from a broomstick, no less), and the body count rises predictably. Dry performances and tepid dialogue don't help much, but the then-modern setting and intelligent plotting make Count Yorga worthy of its 1971 sequel. It's not as stylish as Christopher Lee's Hammer films, but it's certainly not anemic. --Jeff Shannon

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A Lot Better than the Average Vampire Movie.......2006-08-25

I have seen this movie quite a few time and I must say that I'm a fan of the Count Yorga films. This film is better than the last three Christopher Lee Dracula movies. For a low-budget movie, it offered good acting from Robert Quarry, eerie scenes (the stuck van and dead kitten scenes), and a surprise ending. The style is much different than the Hammer films and it's a fairly hip 70's movie.

I have around 130 vampire movies and this movie is in the top 20, so it's pretty good. You've probably read what this movie is about, so If you're looking for something other than a Christopher Lee movie, pop up some popcorn and and watch this movie late at night (with the lights out)...you won't be disappointed.

OUTDATED AND TOOTHLESS.......2005-06-25

When the two Yorga movies came on the scene in the early seventies, they were lauded for their novel take on a familiar theme. Made on shoestring budgets with hardly any special effects, the movies relied on pervasive moods and sinister lighting. We don't know much about Yorga's history, just that he's suddenly in Los Angeles, posing as a psychic to lure beautiful women into his lair. Robert Quarry is effectively sinister as the Count, but he comes nowhere near the finesse of Frank Langella or the pure evil of Christopher Lee. Michael Murphy (Tanner and Tanner) has the thankless role of one of the young men out to snare the vampire, and Roger Perry (Barbara Eden Show) is hopelessly tedious as the knowledgeable chain-smoking doctor. A voice over from veteran character actor George Macready (Peyton Place) is campy but ridiculous. There are lots of unintentional (?) laughs, and thirty five years later, the Yorga series of two seems outlandishly outdated.

Excellent Vampire film,one of the best!........2004-11-16

Count Yorga, Vampire.If the title sounds kind of bland or just not as glamourous or intriging as others;'rest assured' this is an excellent movie!!,one of the best of it's genre.This is definately not some thrown together production,the cast were all good,the sets were not the cheap low budget types you normally see in horror films from the 60's 70's And the script was pretty decent too! all in all worth purchasing for a cold winters night when you want to watch a horror film with "class". It didn't hurt at all either that the lead actor is handsome...or maybe the fact that he bears a striking resemblance to my husband has left me somewhat biased...oh well, great movie!!!. You'll see. :-)

Not exactly Hammer, true, but still great.......2004-10-12

I recalled seeing this movie years and years ago and recalled a morbid, chilling 70's atmosphere unmatched in any other vampire film from this period. So when it was on sale for $4.99 at a video blowout sale, I picked it up.

I have to admit that it was not quite the film I remember, and some of the dialogue is so absurd that one wonders if Kelljan was simultaneously trying to parody the vampire concept while also achieving some genuine chills. For example, before Dr. Hayes (the only figure in the film with some personality along with the acidic Count Yorga himself) and Michael go to stake the fanged fiend outside his castle, the dialogue goes a little something like this:

Dr Hayes: "Well Michael...you know he could get us before we
get him. That means neither one of us could come out of there alive."

Michael:"Yeah, you're right.

Dr Hayes: "I'm scared, to tell you the truth."

Michael:"Yeah..me too."

Dr Hayes:"Okay, you take the back, I take the front."

And yet the flavor of absurdity in the dialogue does not work to the detriment of the film; rather, it seems to increase it's strange, one-of-a-kind atmosphere. Robert Quarry is superb as the articulate, chilling Count Yorga. His face is so tightly drawn, pale and aristocratic, his lines so Shakespearean and literate, that for all his evildoing and dastardly blood feasting I liked him far better than any of the protagonists, Dr Hayes excepted. The inhuman smoothness with which he handles the assault on his castle is actually scary, particularly the scene in which he calmly commands his newly-made vampires to feast on Dr Hayes. And when he flips out and bares the fangs, the close camera angle reveals Quarry's talent for looking cold and immune.

The scene in which Erica eats a baby kitten looks fake as hell, but is still disturbing. The ending is predictable and yet frightening at the same time. (How that could that moron not have known the chick was a vampire?) This isn't the best vampire movie I've ever seen, but there's a flavor to it lacking in some of the greatest. A neat curiosity.

Cat Lovers Beware!.......2004-09-23

COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE is a fairly run-of-the-mill offering from AIP. Still, there's something about the title character that elevates CYV above most trashy vampire epics. Robert Quarry (Count Yorga Returns, Dr. Phibes Rises Again) is the toothy, dashing count. He performs a seance, where he hipnotizes a woman named Donna, who wants to hear from her dead mother. Unknown to her, Yorga was the one who killed mum and added her to his growing harem of undead babes! After the seance, Donna's friend Erica and her husband Paul (Michael Murphy) give Yorga a ride home in their hippy-van, complete with ultra-groovy curtains! Well, they get stuck in the mud outside Yora's mansion, and like anyone else, they decide to get nekkid and do the love thing. The count shows up and invades their privacy, tossing Paul like a piece of paper and giving Erica something to remember him by! Yep, she gets the hellacious hicky of death! Later, Paul and a friend find Erica feasting on a kitten! This infamous scene is the only real icky one in the whole movie. Paul has Erica see his buddy, Dr. Hayes (Roger Perry) who happens to be a blood specialist. Now, wouldn't you take her to a psychiatrist?? Or just strap a straight-jacket on her yourself and drive her to the ha-ha-ranch?? Anyway, Dr. Hayes gives Erica a transfusion which has no real effect. Yorga comes to her at night to finish the dirty deed. Now a full-fledged vampire chick, Erica takes her place in Yorga's secret dungeon. Paul attempts a rescue, only to be squished by the count's incredibly strong servant, Bruda (who looks a lot like one of the sinister hillbillies in "Deliverence"). Meanwhile, convinced of Count Yorga's vampirism, Dr. Hayes and company go to his home for the final encounter. I liked Yorga and his evil brides too. The Dr. Hayes character isn't bad either. Ignore the 70s hairstyles / fashions and just enjoy the show! If you like modern / urban vampires, check out The "Night Stalker" or "The Satanic Rites Of Dracula (aka: Count Dracula's Vampire Brides)" as well...

Average customer rating:

A Lot Better than the Average Vampire Movie
OUTDATED AND TOOTHLESS
Excellent Vampire film,one of the best!.
Not exactly Hammer, true, but still great
Cat Lovers Beware!

Count Yorga Vampire
Starring: Robert Quarry , Roger Perry , Michael Murphy , Michael Macready , and D.J. Anderson
Director: Bob Kelljan
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
ProductGroup: Video
Binding: VHS Tape

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ASIN: 0792843908
Release Date: 2000-03-07

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Customer Reviews:

A Lot Better than the Average Vampire Movie.......2006-08-25

OUTDATED AND TOOTHLESS.......2005-06-25

Excellent Vampire film,one of the best!........2004-11-16

Not exactly Hammer, true, but still great.......2004-10-12

Cat Lovers Beware!.......2004-09-23

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