YMMV / Twins of Evil

• Alternative Character Interpretation: We're clearly supposed to see the Maria and Freida dynamic as the good and virtuous innocent heroine vs the bad and cruelly reckless strumpet, but with modern eyes that's a hard ask. Freida isn't 'bad', she's just a fiery, independent girl with a keen eye for what men want from someone with her looks and no illusions about how the world really works. She's not even that reckless. Given the time period and her social standing then using her looks and charm to become the Count's mistress was exactly how an ambitious young woman (especially one raised in Venice) was supposed to move up and out. What was she supposed to do? Stay in tiny little Karnstein and end up married to a dull farmer or one of her uncle's creepy Brotherhood fanatics? Ten kids around her ankles and no dreams? It's clear that she sees the Count as way out of Karnstein and a stepping stone to life at the Imperial Court, it was hardly her fault that the Count turned out to be a cowardly moron with a secret. And once she becomes a vampire, all bets are off, since it's been shown in the earlier Karnstein films that the thirst for blood and the influence of one's Maker can turn even the sweetest flower into a predatory beast. It's worth remembering though that vampire Freida stays in the same room as her plumply delicious sister for about a week after her turning and deliberately doesn't lay a fang on her, even though their relationship is rather strained.
• Complete Monster: The wicked Count Karnstein, from Twins of Evil, is a Satanist who murders people and sacrifices young women to Satan. Reviving the evil Countess Mircalla, who turns Karnstein into a vampire, Karnstein corrupts young Frieda and turns her into a vampire before having her murder an innocent captive as he cackles gleefully over it. Using Frieda to commit murders, while eventually attempting to frame her good-hearted twin Maria for Frieda's crimes, Karnstein sacrifices Frieda to save his own hide, having no care for anyone or anything beyond his twisted desires.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Maria having to contend with her sister Freida (the "bad" twin who becomes a vampire) getting killed at the end of the film becomes much harsher when one takes into account that Freida's actress Madeleine Collinson was the first Collinson twin to pass away, in 2014; her sister Mary (Maria) died in 2021.

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