Carmilla

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Poe</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae</B></div> <div> <B>Marie...........Meg Tilly (The Big Chill, One Dark Night, Psycho II)</B></div> <div> <B>Carmilla........Ione Skye (Mindwalk, River's Edge, Say Anything)</B></div> <div> <B>Inspector Amos..Roddy McDowall (Arnold, Cutting Class, Fright Night)</B></div> <div> <B>Leo.............Roy Dotrice (The Corsican Brothers, Shaka Zulu)</B></div> <div> <B>Hodges..........Armaelian McQueen</B></div> <div> <B>Doctor..........John Doolittle</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Critique: One might have thought that after Heinrich von Kleist's The Foundling folks would have abandoned the practice of adopting strangers during a plague epidemic. From Showtime cable's "Nightmare Classics", Carmilla is full of the trappings of 1960's horror (vampire disintegration via photo negatives, the cheapest disintegration there is), but it is nonetheless quite watchable. The relationship between Carmilla and Marie is compelling, and transporting Sheridan LeFanu's  Carmilla story to the antebellum south works surprisingly well. The equation of Carmilla with the plague and her seduction of the entire house, indeed infection of several members, works quite well. Roddy McDowell continues his assault on the lifetime Von Helsing award. However, this one's a bit of a cameo for him. Check him out in "Fright Night" for which we bestow a YIKES! best actor award upon him. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>* Blood * Not Particularly Violent * No Strong Language * No Nudity *  * No Sexual Situations * Not Particularly Gory *</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Plot Summary: In the nineteenth century South, a General's daughter, Marie, is too sick to come to the mansion. The black lady's maid seems to have some folk magic powers. Horses almost run them over and then they find a carriage overturned. The inhabitants are killed in the accident except for one young woman, Carmilla, who received a blow to the head. There are stories of plague in the South and they wonder about this girl. Lonely Marie wants a friend and is anxious that Carmilla survive. Marie is bitten by a mouse. Carmilla appears to be hiding something. She says she'll drink her tea later. Marie must tell her that her mother was killed. When she leaves, Carmilla seems pleased about it. At the funeral Carmilla talks seductively to Marie. She tells her that her father is trying to keep her too close. She then tells her she can show her how to get anyone she wants. The maid finds the mutilated corpses of some small animals. Carmilla has insinuated herself into the family quite nicely. The maid and Carmilla don't appear to get along. Carmilla quickly has seduced the father as well. She tells Leo that he's looking handsome and says she's feeling ill. A beggar boy who is sleeping outside is attacked in the night as a dark clad presence steals over him, leaving him with two holes in his neck. The naive suspicion is plague. Miss Hodges the maid tells Carmilla that some are good for her and some are not. Carmilla tells Marie that Miss Hodges is a witch, indicating the beads she wears around her neck. Marie insists on a friendship bonding ceremony in which the girls mingle blood. At dinner, Marie eats ravenously while Carmilla is hardly able to eat a thing. She is nauseous and must go lie down. Marie awakens to something climbing in her sheets and then Carmilla is standing over her. When she leaves there are puncture marks in her neck. Miss Hodges leaves her beads on her door knob. However, she is then defenseless and Carmilla sends bats down from nowhere and they bring her to the floor. There is suspicion that Hodges was murdered. Inspector Amos explains to the doctor that plagues don't bite, and Miss Hodges is badly mutilated and her tongue has been torn out. This is the first such attack outside the Southern parish. Marie is not feeling well. Carmilla explains that they were both bitten by spiders in the garden and shows her punctures. Inspector Amos investigates "special situations" for the court. He goes off to inspect the body of the beggar boy, and indicates that these marks began appearing when Carmilla arrived. Amos indicates that the plague is a perfect cover for her activities and explains that vampires come in all sizes. Carmilla and Marie go out for a walk and Carmilla offers to teach her about the stars, and to dance in the night for eternity. She leads Marie into the woods and begins showing her tricks. She teleports herself out of her grasp. Amos starts pulling out the stake and the dog roses. Meanwhile Carmilla floats in the air sucking sensuously at Marie's neck. When the girls return, Carmilla hesitates at the foot of the stairs when she sees the dog roses. That's enough for father, who says Carmilla will have nothing more to do with his daughter. Marie implores father not to take away the only friend she ever had. Carmilla takes one of Hodges' necklaces from her father's neck and puts it on Carmilla. When this appears to have no effect, he is mollified and Carmilla and Marie ascend the stair. Carmilla asks if the inspector will be here in the morning. She doesn't seem convinced when he says he will. A moan that night sends the inspector into Marie's room but everything seems all right. When he returns to his room he can't get out and a mist descends on him and darkness reigns. He screams and is found with the stake through this head. Carmilla and Marie run to a crypt as the sun rises. When people from the house arrive they are fought off with bats. Marie goes out to say goodbye to her father. Marie brings him to his knees. She feels the sun and rushes back into the crypt. They begin opening coffins and they find vampires within and begin plunging in stakes. Leo opens up a coffin and finds his wife, Marie's mother inside. She bids them kill her and they do. Marie seems to have turned the corner on the vampire thing. Leo leads Marie outside. They are rather angry with Carmilla for keeping mother there all this time. It appears that Carmilla has gotten away. Carmilla appears in Marie's room and takes Marie savagely, but she is thrown against a pointed stake. The curtain is thrown and she disintegrates. Rather ominously, Marie then asks father to draw the window curtains. The film ends with Marie's disconcerting smile. Apparently the vampirism took.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>