I'd seen Count Yorga Vampire before but not since 2008. It's another of the 2 movie MGM Midnite Movies series. It came out in 1970 and Bob Kelljan is the writer and director. This was Bob's second film, his first was Flesh Of My Flesh in 1969. It has no votes on the IMDb which means to me hardly anyone has seen it. Maybe not even the director. After CYV Bob directed The Return Of Count Yorga, which was followed by Scream Blacula Scream in 1973. SBS is pretty goofy and I liked it well enough. Not enough to buy a copy but I don;t really need one. Bob started directing TV after SBS and he worked on some popular shows like Wonder Woman, Starsky And Hutch, Charlie's Angels and Nero Wolf.
Robert Quarry is the Count and he's come to live in Los Angeles. He's appearing in public as a Bulgarian mystic and a lady called Donna has him round to try to contact her dead mother. Donna's friends are more skeptical of the mystics powers. Donna says the Count had been her mother's boyfriend. This is one social vampire, huh.
A couple at the seance drive the Count home and wind up stuck in the mud in his driveway. They stay over night, humping in their van, only to be attacked by the Count. They don't know what happened the next day. Other strange things happen and some of Donna's friends get suspicious of the Count. No one can believe that the man could be a vampire but soon they are convinced. They fight the Count and eventually defeat him.
There's the usual vampire and human interaction that you'd expect in a vampire film. Many fall victim of the vampire and his vampire women. I'm not much of a Robert Quarry fan and this movie doesn't change my mind. Still, I enjoyed the movie when I saw it before and did again. I'll hope to see it again someday.
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