Donna Anderson, George Macready, Michael Macready

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...( read more  read more... ) 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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PG-13, 93 min.

Directed by: Bob Kelljan

Release Date: January 1, 1970

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DVD Release Date: August 28, 2001

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  • June 27, 2008
    70's mayhem.
  • January 12, 2008
    Great!
  • April 6, 2009
    Saw this when it first came out. Snuck in without my parents permission. I love Bella, but I was disappointed slightly.
  • November 1, 2007
    Not interested. I generally avoid horror movies.
  • April 23, 2007
    this actually scared the CRAP out of me when I was about 8 or 9..... lol! would like to see it and 'return of count yorga' again now to see what I think!
  • April 8, 2007
    Robert Quarry deserved to be a true-blue horror star on par with Price and Cushing.
  • March 17, 2007
    It's 1970. Sex is still being performed in the back of VW vans. Doctors still smoke tobacco. And the drive-in is still the place to be on a Friday night.
    "Count Yorga, Vampire", is a drive-in flick.
    It's one of those movies that you can talk, drink, smoke pot, and make-out t...( read more)hrough and still be able to tell your parents what the plot was about.
    God bless ya Yorga!

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