The Velvet Vampire
The Velvet Vampire, also known as Cemetery Girls, is an American vampire movie from 1971, directed by Stephanie Rothman, starring Celeste Yarnall, Michael Blodgett and Sherry Miles. It has become a cult film.
The film was Stephanie Rothmans follow up to her 1970 hit The Student Nurses. She and her husband Charles Swartz had written a script, The Student Teachers but producer Larry Woolner wanted to make a vampire film after the success of Daughters of Darkness 1970. Rothman and Swartz came up with a presentday vampire story originally entitled Through the Looking Glass. Rothman said she was interested in making a vampire female where a female was the protagonist rather than the victim. The character name Diane Le Fanu was a reference to author Sheridan Le Fanu, writer of Carmilla.The script was written over three months. Rothman deliberately put a lot of comedy into it in order to make it different. ........
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