Trivia / The Vampire Lovers

• Completely Different Title:
  • France: Passion for Vampires
  • Brazil: Deadly Attraction
  • Finland: Passions of the Dead
  • Netherlands: A Vampire's Kiss of Death
  • Norway: The Vampire
  • Sweden: The Vampire: An Erotic Nightmare
  • Germany: Crypt of the Vampires
• International Coproduction: The film was a co-production between Hammer and American International Pictures, who were interested in a vampire movie with more explicit sexual content to take advantage of a more relaxed censorship environment.
• What Could Have Been:
  • James Carreras rejected a suggestion that Shirley Eaton play the lead on the grounds that she was too old. Ingrid Pitt, only 10 months younger than Eaton, was eventually cast.
  • The role of the Man in Black was offered to Christopher Lee but he declined the role and John Forbes-Robertson was cast instead.
• Word of Gay: The director claimed that, after reading Carmilla twice, he didn't get a sense of any lesbian content. Ingrid Pitt also claimed she didn't play the role as though the vampire was a lesbian but asexual.

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