Yorga il vampiro

Yorga il vampiro (1970)

Count Yorga, Vampire

Affascinante, oscuro e mortale.

Nel corso di una seduta spiritica, la giovane Dona, colta da una crisi isterica, viene calmata con l'ipnosi dal "medium" conte Yorga. Questi, che è in realtà un vampiro, approfitta dell'occasione per comunicare telepaticamente con la giovane e ordinarle di recarsi da lui quando la chiamerà e vuole usarla per i suoi loschi traffici; " Vampire Story" (1971): nei pressi di San Francisco delle losche figure emergono dal cimitero: il conte Yorga e un gruppo di vampire, sue adepte. Il primo acquista la sontuosa villa dei Manson e le seconde, sempre guidate dal Conte, sterminano una famiglia lasciando solo due superstiti, Cinzia e il suo fratellino Tommy. Entrambi vengono poi rapiti da Yorga...

Data di uscita
1970-06-12
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (65)
Durata
1 h 33 min
Generi
Horror
Regista
Bob Kelljan
Collezione
Count Yorga Collection

Cast

Curiosità

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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