Twins of Evil (1972)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Well-made, if sloppily-edited, vampire/witchcraft horrors from Hammer Films (and distributed by the Rank Organisation!) became screenwriter Tudor Gates' final installment in the "Karnstein Trilogy" (following "The Vampire Lovers" from 1970 and "Lust for a Vampire" from earlier in 1971). Twin teenage girls from Venice, orphaned and now living with their puritanical uncle in Central Europe, are the only 'respectable' lasses in the village who dare bare their cleavage (much to their uncle's dismay). One of the young ladies becomes aroused by Count Karnstein, who worships the devil in his mountaintop castle and has recently been turned into a vampire after resurrecting the corpse of Countess Mircalla (who inexplicably disappears thereafter!). Although exquisitely photographed by Dick Bush, this bloody, sexy outing possibly bites off more than it can chew. As the twins, real-like Playboy Playmates Mary and Madeleine Collinson are beautiful amateurs, while Damien Thomas (an extremely odd-looking actor) makes for a disappointing Karnstein. The one cast member who seems to relish his role is Peter Cushing as the girls' uncle; whether hunting down pagan beauties at night on horseback or grimly extolling the virtues of a God-fearing life, Cushing doesn't play his part for camp, which is all the better. With his jaw firmly stuck out and his eyes ablaze, Cushing is more ferocious than the vampires and about as dangerous, though the filmmakers suddenly go soft on him by the finale. ** from ****

Living in 16th Century Germany, the head of a group of fanatical Puritans becomes the guardian of his twin nieces who get involved with a local warlord turning villagers into vampires and is caught in the middle of the war between the two sides battling for the two girls.There is quite a lot to like here being one of their better efforts. One of the better features here is that the film genuinely is a mixture between the more explicit violence and erotic tones present in many films. That is in fine form here as the use of the twins in here is quite an advantage as they have a great look to them since even though they were identical, you could completely believe one could be demure and innocent, yet the other could be hideous and vicious. That the sequence where a series of symbolic closeups on a hand stroking a candlestick during a love sequence is a finely erotic moment is a prime example of the two types of film this can be mixing along with the seductive qualities of the main vampire during his pagan games and ceremonies during the castle scenes, and the general manner of the activities around the village leave this with a lot of sensuality on the fringes of the story. As well, Karnstein Castle is a superbly crafted Gothic house and all the time spent is very atmospheric and realistically historic from the resurrection of the main vampire to the spectacular action scene featuring their march on the castle grounds that lets the location get put to good use as the multitude of skirmishes and battles leaves this one featuring plenty of travels through cobwebbed corridors and secret passages while it also gives us a short but great gore-fest in a shockingly well-done decapitation, a nasty ax- in-the-back, a horrific body hitting floor like sack of spuds, and a great enormous spike through the guts inside a spectacular conclusion that really hits some moments. Even the torture sequences are quite brutal, and they give it some extra violence, from the introduction of a busty wench pursued through a dark forest by a bunch of men dressed in black, being tied to a stake and burned alive to the various tortures inflicted over the innocents throughout the village that connects it to the other films. The last big plus is a truly outstanding performance by Cushing who is given one of his most multi-faceted characters ever, a complex and ultimately hypocritical man who does indeed recognize evil and who wants to rid the land of the evil yet his fanaticism corrupts him as much as the villain. These are it's finer points as there is very little actually to complain about here. The main issue here is that the nudity is actually pretty restrained, as the nightgowns hide much and are really reduced to a couple of scenes late in the film. There are also quite a few lapses of logic that can only be overcome if you have a really warped suspension of disbelief. The biggest is that the evil twin apparently becomes a vampire after she receives the vampire's bite because she's supposedly Satanic. Establishing her prior to this scene as truly evil and not just rebellious would have made her transformation more believable as everything says she's just a rebellious teenager. These, though, are minor complaints.Today's Rating/R: Nudity, Graphic Violence and several sex scenes.

The third movie of the Karnstein Trilogy. Now this is a GOOD vampire film. LOVE the story. This one has much less focus on the lustful Countess Mircalla - in fact, not hardly any attention to her in this film. This movie has its focus on the twins Frieda and Maria instead.Twins of Evil will easily grab your attention right at the beginning of the film and hold it until the very end. This film has a Gothic setting, puritans on witch-hunts, black arts, Satanism, vampires, and a good vs evil theme - all of which are the makings for a good horror film - and this film has a good story surrounding these things.Yes this is can be a stand alone film - really you do not need to watch the first two films to know what is going on in this third because it has very little to do with them. The only thing that connects this third film is Countess Mircalla and she is in the film very little.This third film is worth watching! 9/10

TWINS OF EVIL boasts two of Hammer's greatest assets (who each boast an impressive set of assets), as well as Peter Cushing as their repressed witch-hunting uncle. Although his charges (orphans, we're told) are both prone to walking around in what amount to little more than nightgowns, uncle Gustav spends most of his time scouring the countryside for "loose" women to burn at the stake. The implication that he's sexually repressed and is taking his pent-up frustrations out on the local vixens is obvious. For Hammer Film fans, TWINS OF EVIL also shows us how the infamous Count Karnstein crossed over to the Other Side: he's bitten by the comely Carmilla- called "Mircalla," here. The lovelies who play the twins are both good actresses, which goes along way toward making TWINS OF EVIL one of Hammer's best.