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By NORMAN GOLDSTEIN AP News features Writer NEW YORK (AP) Horrors! What's happened to the horror movies? The malevolent monster of the creature feature has become a luscious lesbian vampire! The frightening face of the terror of Transylvania is now a blue-eyed beauty worth the eye-teeth of any red-blooded libertine And while it was the vulner able neck which lured the toothy monsters of the popcorn past, the attraction to at least one current castle-creeper is a couple of bites lower on milady’s bosom . It's enough to set the good Count Dracula spinning in his sepulchre Perpetrator of these doings is the veteran shock film shop. England's Hammer Films, who has mated sex and sex in a gothic tale with lesbian leanings for America’s most prominent horror-bill distributors. Ameri can International Pictures. Hammer is the production company with a history of suc cessful horror remakes, and who also introduced Raquel Welch to the world in a prehistoric puffery called “One Million Years B.C” and carboned that beauty-and the-beast epic with Ursula An dress in “She.” In the current one, “The Vam pire Lovers,” the lovely lady is Ingrid Pitt, aided in her monster mien by a touch of a German accent, which is real, a slight Karloff-like lisp, which is real, and a body, shown un encumbered by worldly gar ments, which is real only the protruding fangs, an occupation al necessity, are frauds. It's not exactly the role the witty and intellectual Miss Pitt always dreamed of, but she ad mits it’s a role to sink her teeth into. Miss Pitt is a German-born beauty with long flowing blonde hair, blue eyes, generous lips and an intriguing upturned nose. She has led a life worthy of a movie script in itself in her 27-or-so years, yet she hesitates to talk about it. ‘My life bores me,” she says. But there are few vampires who can boast of swimming the River Spree between the two Berlins to freedom from the East as she did. And few other ac tresses can speak six languages, write original screenplays and practice bullfighting on horse back.“I love bullfighting, but I cannot get off the horse and kill the bull, standing there face to face with him. I let the men do the dirty work as all women do. Though born in Berlin, her family moved to Poland early in her life and she considers herself more Polish, “but I have a Russian soul.” She returned to Berlin as a teenager and worked with the Berliner Ensemble The atre, including a major part in “Mother Courage” after the lead fell ill, before fleeing East Berlin and The Wall. From there she did several films and TV shows in Spain. Her first appearance on Ameri can movie screens was in the war adventure “Where Eagles Dare,” with Clint Eastwood and Rich ard Burton. She played a wait ress. She talks freely, in fact is an admitted chatterer “My fa ther used to say: You are much prettier if you shut up. I didn’t take his advice. I was always talking.” about everything from Tolstoy to women’s liber ation. With the latter somewhat more topical, she declared: “All this emancipation is ruining the world. Woman is woman; man is man. There should be no com promise. I wouldn't want this unisex. I don’t know why people want to change nature. ~ And about current trends in movies: “They are all nuts with that lesbianism and nudity ... There are some people left who like normality. Marriage. Babies. Movies are indulging in pessim ism. They should be more posi tive All this, of course, before “The Vampire Lovers.” But Ingrid is not the type to be a vampire all her acting life. In her next film, “The House That Dripped Blood,” she’s the vampire’s victim! VAMPIRE? She may not look the part, but actress Ingrid Pitt plays a vampire in a horror movie
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Sun, Mar 28, 1971
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