Spain, Italy, 1969
90m
35mm film, Eastmancolor, 1.85:1
mono, Spanish
A Spanish horror film directed by Amando de Ossorio.
Plot Summary
A young woman inherits a castle only to find it full of vampires.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Amando de Ossorio
© [not given on screen]
Victory Films S.A. Madrid, Cobra Films Production Roma
Written by: Amando de Ossorio
Director of Photography: Fulvio Testi
Film Editor: Antonio Gimeno
Music: Carlo Savina
Miss Ekberg’s Clothes by: Marbel Jr
Make-up: Manolita Ponte, Marisa Tilli
Hairstylists: Antonio Nieto, Ana Maria Zinni
Decors: Ennio Michetoni
This film has been shot in Madrid, San Martin de Valdeiglesias, La alberca and Castillo de Buton, Spain; Rome, Italy
Cast
Anita Ekberg (Malenka/Sylvia Morel)
John Hamilton [real name: Gianni Medici] (Dr Piero Luciani)
Diana Lorys (Bertha Zemis)
Adriana Ambesi [Audrey Ambert on some prints] (Blinka)
Guy Robers [real name: César Benet] (Max)
Carlos Casaravilla (Dr Horbinger)
Fernando Bilbao (Vladis the coachman)
Paul Muller (Dr Albert)
Adriana Santucci (the count’s maid)
Aurelia Treviño (village woman)
Juanita Ramírez (Brugard the barmaid)
Rosanna Yanni (Freya Zemis)
Julián Ugarte (uncle/Count Walbrooke)
Keith Kendal (man)
Alternative Titles
Bloody Girl – France (advertising)
I ekdikisi ton zontanon nekron – Greece
Fangs of the Living Dead – USA
Malenka la vampire – France
Malenka, i komissa Drakoulas – Greece
Malenka, la nipote del vampiro – Italy
Malenka, la sobrina del vampiro – Spain
Malenka, the Niece of the Vampire – USA (video)
Malenka, the Vampire – USA
The Vampire’s Niece – USA (video)
Links
Extracts included in
Amando de Ossorio: El último templario (2001)
Includes extracts from
Operazione paura (1966)
References
Periodicals
- Cinestudio no.93 (January 1971) p.56
Books
- The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror by Phil Hardy (ed.) p.197 – credits, review
- Cinematic Vampires by John L. Flynn pp.137
- Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010 by John Edgar Browning and Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart pp.117-118 – credits, article
- Euro Gothic: Classics of Continental Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby pp.185, 242
- Feature films, 1960-1969: A Filmography of English-language and Major Foreign-language United States Releases by Harris M. Lentz III p.132 – credits
- Fright Night on Channel 9 by James Arena pp.156-157
- Horror and Science Fiction Films III by Donald C. Willis p.98 – credits
- Italian Horror Films of the 1960s by Lawrence McCallum pp.75-80 – illustrated credits, article
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.282 – credits
- Sixties Shockers by Mark Clark and Bryan Senn pp.174-175 – illustrated credits, article
- Vampire Films of the 1970s: Dracula to Blacula and Every Fang Between by Gary A. Smith pp.109-110; 215 – review; credits
