Incense for the Damned or ‘Bloodsuckers’ (1970)
| release date | November 30 1970 |
| studio | Chevron Pictures |
| director | Robert Hartford-Davis |
| writer | Julian More, Simon Raven |
| starring | John Barron, Peter Cushing, Alexander Davion, Imogen Hassall, Madeline Hinde |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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A man is hired by the Provost of Oxford (Peter Cushing)to bring back his daughter’s fiancé (son of the British Foreign Secretary) from Greece before word of a scandal breaks out. See, the ‘wayward’ pupil has been living a rock ‘n roll lifestle of sex, booze, drugs, and a few other fun things. Trouble is, he’s fallen in with a mysterious woman with possession, perversion and fresh blood on her mind.
Actually to tell the truth I’m making this movie sound more exciting than it really is. There’s long stretches where nothing actually happens. The pacing is extremely slow and there’s nothing in the way of twists and turns. The whole thing plays out like an overlong and subsequently abandoned TV show pilot. Peter Cushing gets star billing in the credits but he’s in it for all of three or four minutes of screen time.
It’s a vampire movie, but only barely. It’s a horror movie but again, only barely.
NOTE: The internet movie database briefly details the dodgy history this flick has. The director (Robert Hartford-Davis) refused to have anything to do with the film as he believed it wasn’t in a finished state when funding ran out in 1970. It languished in post-production purgatory until 1976 and then sank without trace.