The Velvet Vampire

The Velvet Vampire (1971)

She's waiting to love you... to death!

A married couple accept the invitation of mysterious vixen Diane LeFanu to visit her in her secluded desert estate. Tensions arise when the couple, unaware at first that Diane is a centuries-old vampire, realize that they are both objects of the pale temptress' seductions.

Date of release
1971-10-13
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (38)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Horror
Director
Stephanie Rothman

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $165K

The Velvet Vampire, also known as Cemetery Girls, is a 1971 American vampire film directed by Stephanie Rothman. It stars Celeste Yarnall, Michael Blodgett, Sherry Miles, Gene Shane, Jerry Daniels, Sandy Ward, and Paul Prokop. It has been cited as a cult film.

Production

The film was Stephanie Rothman's follow-up to her 1970 hit The Student Nurses. She and her husband Charles Swartz had written a script, The Student Teachers, but producer Larry Woolner wanted to make a vampire film after the success of Daughters of Darkness (1970). Rothman and Swartz came up with a present-day vampire story originally entitled Through the Looking Glass.

Rothman says she and her husband wrote the treatment then the script was written by Yale Udoff [also known as Maurice Jules] and rewritten by them. "He did a good job on the script," said Rothman. "I don’t want to detract from his work. It was mostly

his work, but we did do a final polish of it ourselves."

Rothman wanted to make the vampire female and have a woman as the protagonist rather than the victim. "I always thought a vampire was

a very erotic figure, and I wanted to make a highly erotic vampire who was very

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