I Vampiri

I Vampiri Italian I vampiri , lit.The Vampires is a 1957 Italian horror film. The film was directed by Riccardo Freda and completed by the films cinematographer Mario Bava. It stars Gianna Maria Canale, Carlo DAngelo and Dario Michaelis. The film is about a series of murders on young women who are found with all their blood drained. The newspapers describes the killer as the Vampire and young journalist Pierre Lantin researches the crimes. Lantin investigates the mysterious Du Grand family who lives in a castle occupied by Gisele Du Grand who is in love with Lantin. She lives with her aunt who hides her face in a veil as well as the scientist Julian Du Grand who is trying to find the secret to eternal youth.

In 1957 Paris, a series of mysterious killings are committed against young women of the same blood type who are found dead and drained of their blood. These killings are reported in the press as being performed by a murderer coined The Vampire. The journalist Pierre Lantin Dario Michaelis begins to investigate, and becomes more involved when his fiancee, the dancer Nora Duval is kidnapped. As Inspector Chantal Carlo DAngelo examines the crime scene, Lantin arrives predicting that the crime was committed by The Vampire. Lantin investigates the school that the latest murder happened at to search for clues and finds that the woman was being followed by a tall man before the murder. Elsewhere, a man named Joseph Paul Muller begs for his fix in a dark room is told to go after a woman named Lorette Wandisa Guida and that he know what to do at Rue Saint Etienne. Joseph arrives at the location and is spotted by Lantin but manages to get away from him. Joseph arrives at the clinic of Professor Julian Du Grand Antoine Balptr and demands money to leave town or he will report whats happening to the police. He is strangled by Du Grands assistant when a shadowed woman named Marguerite arrives and states that if the police track them down, it will be the end of Du Grands career. A newspaper headline later reveals that Professor Julian Du Grand has died unexpectedly.After a funeral procession for Julian, a group of men arrive and reveal that the body buried was that of Joseph. Josephs corpse is taken to a castle where he is experimented on by Julian who is attempting discover the secret for eternal life. Later, Lorette meets a blind man in the street who asks her to drop off a letter. On dropping the letter off, she is kidnapped and finds herself locked in a bedroom with the skeletons of the The Vampires previous victims. As the police try and track down Lorettes kidnappers, Lantin is reassigned from following the Vampire story and is set to cover a ball at the castle of Du Grand.

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