When it come to these 1960's and 70's Euro horror films where a busload of tourists wind up stranded in a creepy Gothic setting, I am usually right along for the ride. However, this incoherent sleazefest is a blurry confusing mess. There are so many events that happen without any rhyme or reason - and characters who appear and then disappear without any explanation.
This particular group of tourists are arriving to some town or estate, each to do a different job (a tutor, a groundskeeper etc...). While en route, the bus driver inexplicably has some sort of attack and drops dead behind the wheel, leaving the tourists to drive the bus, with his dead body on board, to the next closest town. None of the passengers seem too disturbed by the events, save for one pretty lady who asks a fellow passenger for a cigarette to calm her nerves.
Anyway, they wind up at a town where the vampire residents mysteriously all disappear sometimes at night and sometimes during the day. But they mostly only attack at night. There is also a ghost boy who appears and disappears, to only a young girl, who may or may not be a vampire himself.
The town is run by "The Countess" played by one of my favorite Euro- horror actresses, Helga Line. But even she cannot save this film with her very few on screen appearances. Helga is not the icy vixen in this movie that we have come to love in so many cult classics (Horror Rises From The Tomb, Nightmare Castle, Blancheville Monster etc...). Her hair is softer, her makeup is softer, and her usual subtle yet powerful facial expressions are replaced by boring, typical, uninspired vampire hissing and grinning.
Add to all this some pretty bad acting, terrible dubbing, sloppy edits, and an atrocious soundtrack that sounds more like it was made for one of those goofy British 60's sex-comedies than a Gothic horror film - mix them all together and you have the sloppy "Vampires Night Orgy".
I can only recommend this to extremist fans of Euro-horror - but there are many, many better films that you could and should watch before this one.
This particular group of tourists are arriving to some town or estate, each to do a different job (a tutor, a groundskeeper etc...). While en route, the bus driver inexplicably has some sort of attack and drops dead behind the wheel, leaving the tourists to drive the bus, with his dead body on board, to the next closest town. None of the passengers seem too disturbed by the events, save for one pretty lady who asks a fellow passenger for a cigarette to calm her nerves.
Anyway, they wind up at a town where the vampire residents mysteriously all disappear sometimes at night and sometimes during the day. But they mostly only attack at night. There is also a ghost boy who appears and disappears, to only a young girl, who may or may not be a vampire himself.
The town is run by "The Countess" played by one of my favorite Euro- horror actresses, Helga Line. But even she cannot save this film with her very few on screen appearances. Helga is not the icy vixen in this movie that we have come to love in so many cult classics (Horror Rises From The Tomb, Nightmare Castle, Blancheville Monster etc...). Her hair is softer, her makeup is softer, and her usual subtle yet powerful facial expressions are replaced by boring, typical, uninspired vampire hissing and grinning.
Add to all this some pretty bad acting, terrible dubbing, sloppy edits, and an atrocious soundtrack that sounds more like it was made for one of those goofy British 60's sex-comedies than a Gothic horror film - mix them all together and you have the sloppy "Vampires Night Orgy".
I can only recommend this to extremist fans of Euro-horror - but there are many, many better films that you could and should watch before this one.