Malenka la vampire

Titre original : Malenka

1969
12
1h 30min

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Vampire Horror Comedy Drama Horror Romance

Une belle vierge hérite d'un château, mais lorsqu'elle y arrive, elle découvre que les habitants sont un étrange noble et une ribambelle de belles femmes qu'elle soupçonne d'être des vampire... Tout lireUne belle vierge hérite d'un château, mais lorsqu'elle y arrive, elle découvre que les habitants sont un étrange noble et une ribambelle de belles femmes qu'elle soupçonne d'être des vampires.Une belle vierge hérite d'un château, mais lorsqu'elle y arrive, elle découvre que les habitants sont un étrange noble et une ribambelle de belles femmes qu'elle soupçonne d'être des vampires.

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Rôles principaux18

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Anita Ekberg

Sylvia De Morel…

Gianni Medici

Dr. Piero Luciani
(as John Hamilton)

Diana Lorys

Bertha Ziemsen

Adriana Ambesi

Velinka - the Count's Bride

César Benet

Max
(as Guy Robers)

Carlos Casaravilla

Dr. Hörbiger

Fernando Bilbao

Vladis - the Count's Manservant

Paul Muller

Dr. Albert

Adriana Santucci

The Count's Maid

Aurelia Treviño

Woman with Torch in a Crowd

Juanita Ramírez

Brugard - the Inn's Barmaid

Rosanna Yanni

Freya Ziemsen
(as Rosana Yanni)

Julián Ugarte

De Morel - the Count of Walbrooke

Luisa De Benedictis

Nurse at the Elisabetta Lab
(non crédité)

Keith Kendal

Villager Who Saw Bertha Alive
(non crédité)

Luciano Melani

Villager at the Inn
(non crédité)

Jesús Ramón Orjales

Villager at the Inn
(non crédité)

Luis Prendes

Villager Standing at the Inn
(non crédité)

Réalisation
- Amando de Ossorio
Scénario
- Amando de Ossorio
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Anecdotes
One of the first vampire films from Spain, it was inspired by similarly themed Italian and British vampire films that were being released during the same time period, such as Dance of the Vampires. It has been credited as being "the 1969 picture that hammered the final nail into the cinematic coffin of the bomb-shelter-era bombshell Anita Ekberg," as well as being "one of the most original gothic examples of Spanish horror."

Gaffes
As Sylvia reads the dates of birth and death from the crypt, she says "1790-1840" although the stone reads 1768-1840.

Citations
Malenka: You mean to tell me that the ancestors are still alive?
Uncle: Not exactly.

Versions alternatives
An English dubbed version of this film was released in the United States in 1973 as part of the "Orgy of the Living Dead" triple feature. The film was cut to approximately 75 minutes and re-titled "Fangs of the Living Dead."

Connexions
Featured in Deadly Earnest's Nightmare Theatre: Malenka, The Niece of the Vampire (1978)

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7/10

Several versions exist, all marvelous.

There are at least three prints of this film running loose these days ... Readers should NOT let the negative nellies dissuade them from seeking this film out -- it is a marvelous little bit of Eurotrash from one of the genre's finest directors when he was just flexing his muscles.

Most literature I have encountered on MALENKA agree that Ossorio's main inspriration was THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS aka DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES, but he injected the film with a decidedly Medeterranian air that caught on: In many circles, it is considered classic must-have required viewing at the Academy, Mr Spock kind of stuff.

BUT, you need to select your home viewing version carefully -- of the three most common forms that exist, the most familiar to us in America is a 75 - 80m "public domain" print that used to run on TV a lot, with the vampire chasing ending in place ... we have all seen it at one time or another. Then there is a second 96 - 98 minute European cut exported from Holland in the late 1980's -- it contains some additional "scientific" scenes and other dialogue, but NOT the gag ending with the vampire chasing Rosanna Yanni. The recommended version is actually out on DVD right now at places like Amazon under the name FANGS OF THE LIVING DEAD and released by a smallish company called Retromedia who "restored" a widescreen uncut British print for their DVD; uncut meaning that some of the slower scenes trimmed from the 80m public domain print are still in place.

What makes their DVD really come to life, though, is the care that went into making the print look good again. And after so many years of dingy, sepia rotted TV prints you will be shocked at what a beautiful, HARMLESS and fun movie this is -- I'd rather watch MALENKA with my eyes held open by toothpicks than ever have to sit through garbage like INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, DRACULA 2000 or FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA PRESENTS BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA: A FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA FILM ever again. Gawd ...