Lust for a Vampire

Lust for a Vampire (1971) is a British horror film from Hammer Films you can watch online on iFILM. Director Jimmy Sangster takes Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla as his starting point for the second Karnstein trilogy entry: in 1830, the aristocratic Karnstein family resurrects Mircalla (Yutte Stensgaard), a vampire who infiltrates a girls' finishing school and starts picking off students.

The headmaster falls into slavish devotion; visiting author Richard Lestrange (Michael Johnson) is smitten and barely less useless. Not Hammer's tightest screenplay, but it delivers the studio's signature atmosphere — candlelit rooms, Gothic excess, and a monster whose danger is presented as seduction. Stream Lust for a Vampire online on iFILM.