Count Yorga, Vampire

Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)

Dashing, Dark and Deadly.

Posing as a hip medium, a bloodthirsty old-world undead gent attracts young lovelies to his mansion by holding séances in modern-day Los Angeles.

Date of release
1970-06-12
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (65)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Horror
Director
Bob Kelljan
Collection
Count Yorga Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Count Yorga, Vampire is a 1970 American vampire horror film written and directed by Bob Kelljan and starring Robert Quarry, Roger Perry and Michael Murphy. It was followed by a sequel, The Return of Count Yorga.

Production

The film opens with a narration by character actor George Macready, whose son, Michael Macready, produced the film and also played "Michael".

The film was originally to have been a soft core porn film called The Loves of Count Iorga, and some prints of the film display this as the on-screen title. Quarry told actor/producer Michael Macready he would play the vampire role if they turned the story into a straight horror film. AIP head Samuel Z. Arkoff was responsible for changing the title from Iorga to Yorga to make it easier for buyers to pronounce.

Stephen Farber's 1972 book, The Movie Rating Game, details the problems that the film's distributor American International Pictures had in securing a GP rating (formerly known as M, later renamed to PG) from the Motion Picture Association of America, which initially was divided as to whether to give the film an R or X rating.

The film ended up going before the MPAA ratings board six times before being granted the GP rating, and two or three minutes of violent and sexual content were ultimately removed by AIP. Alterations to the movie's soundtrack were also required to lessen the impact of violent scenes that remained in the film.

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