October Monster Mash: Count Yorga – The Cult Vampire of the 1970s
A New Vampire for a New Decade By the dawn of the 1970s, gothic horror was in transition. Hammer Films still reigned with Christopher Lee’s Dracula, but audiences were looking for something fresh. Enter Count Yorga, Vampire (1970), a film that breathed new life into the vampire mythos while introducing a charismatic, modern-day bloodsucker who could charm as easily as he could kill. Played with sly sophistication by Robert Quarry, Count Yorga was an aristocratic vampire transported into contemporary Los Angeles. He wasn’t lurking in a crumbling Transylvanian castle—he was…
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