Incense for the Damned (1970)

Original title

Blood Suckers

Directed by

Robert Hartford-Davis

Genre

horror film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

R

Rating

4.1 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young Oxford scholar becomes obsessed with a Greek woman who turns out to be a vampire. His friends and a doctor try to rescue him from her influence.

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What happens

Incense for the Damned (also known as Bloodsuckers, Freedom Seeker and Doctors Wear Scarlet) is a 1971 British horror film directed by Robert Hartford-Davis and starring Patrick Macnee, Johnny Sekka, Madeleine Hinde, Alexander Davion, Peter Cushing and Edward Woodward. It is based on the 1960 Simon Raven novel Doctors Wear Scarlet. The film centres on Richard Fountain, a scholar of Greek mythology at the University of Oxford, who has fallen under the influence of Chriseis, a mysterious Greek woman who is a modern-day vampire. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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