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BijouBob8mm	HANNAH, QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES (1973)	Lead	[-]
Jun 28 07 11:25 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This also shows up as YOUNG HANNAH, QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES, as well as CRYPT OF THE LIVING DEAD (such as on the Rhino DVD). I remember reading about this for a long time, as well as seeing ads for it at drive-ins (always at a time when I couldn't go). Then I finally saw a late, late showing of it sometime in the early Eighties but, because of the hour, kept drifting off. (Had not yet got a VCR.) I remember it LOOKED good, but that's about all I can recall. I think the only other thing I've seen Teresa Gimpera ("Hannah") in was her brief appearance in Franco's COUNT DRACULA. (She's the crying mother...in the sequence completely deleted from the Dark Sky DVD.) Anyone with fresher, fuller memories care to comment on this?
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caltikifan	Re: HANNAH, QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES (1973)	#1	[-]
Jun 28 07 11:49 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'm not surprised that you fell asleep, no matter what hour it was. This one is pretty slow-going. The main problem is that young Hannah the vamp spends most of her time in a stone sarcophogus, not really doing much of anything. By the time she gets out and actually does something, the movie is almost over. On the plus side, there is good location filming (in Turkey, I think?) and Patty Shepard in a supporting role. This one seems to be available in both black & white and color versions. So, worth seeing once, but bascially a snoozer.
BijouBob8mm	Re: HANNAH, QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES (1973)	#2	[-]
Jun 28 07 11:52 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Didn't realize a B&W print was out, given when it was made. I believe you're right about the location work being done in Turkey. Seems like, over the years, someone may have even made this available in some form for the 8mm home movie market. (If it was a digest or reel of highlights, maybe "less is more" applies here?)
caltikifan	Re: HANNAH, QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES (1973)	#3	[-]
Jun 28 07 1:58 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The DVD from Rhino is in color. However, the print included in the Chilling Classics 50-pack is B&W. I don't know if there is any other difference between them. I think that they both have the same run time.
BijouBob8mm	Re: HANNAH, QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES (1973)	#4	[-]
Jun 28 07 2:29 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	VCI is also offering the film, under the YOUNG HANNAH title, and it lists the same running time as Rhino's CRYPT release. Mill Creek also offers it in their 20 movie VAMPIRES & MORE! (I imagine they would use the same B&W CRYPT transfer that appears in their 50 pack.) Odds are that VCI is the best quality, but I'm thinking this is something I probably want to rent rather than buy.
doctor kiss	Re: HANNAH, QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES (1973)	#5	[-]
Jun 28 07 3:56 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The black-and-white copy that I saw was impossibly dark during the day-for-night sequences, and removes the best reason for watching this movie --- the beauty of its color cinematography. I first caught this one, though, on British PAL video, when it was released with some great (big) box art in 1986 by Apex, a company whose ultra-cheap releases seemed to be stocked by almost every newsagent or grocer in the land at that time! Anyway, the Apex print was incredibly crisp, but rather bizarrely, all the indoor scenes were fullscreen, while the outdoor scenes were shown in widescreen. Various workprints and other oddities ended up on video during those years, but it made for a strange viewing experience, to say the least.
Joe Karlosi	Re: HANNAH, QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES (1973)	#6	[-]
Jun 28 07 4:04 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I've never seen this before (at least I don't think I have?), but George Reis of DVDDrive-In will be showing it at his very first Drive-In bash: dvddrive-in.com/driveinsu...ania07.htm ---------------------- "It's MORE ... than a hobby!"
BijouBob8mm	Re: HANNAH, QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES (1973)	#7	[-]
Jun 28 07 4:32 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Boy, would I love to go to that! Thanks for posting the link, Joe!
evilskippy	Re: HANNAH, QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES (1973)	#8	[-]
Jun 28 07 6:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Saw this when it was first released back in 1972 or 1973. It was okay when I was that age but a viewing last year sent me almost into nappyland. "Some days its not worth the effort of chewing through the restraints".
Zombie Dad	Re: HANNAH, QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES (1973)	#9	[-]
Jun 28 07 7:36 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I kind of like this one. But it did send my wife into nappyland. ZD
Rick	Re: HANNAH, QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES (1973)	#10	[-]
Jun 29 07 12:16 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Someday I need to see this whole thing. I caught it as the final quarter of Four Fearsome Flicks (or something) at a drive-in around 1980. It didn't start till about two in the morning. Most of the cars had already motored away and I guess the projectionist was tired, because he just left out a reel or two. So the version I saw ran about 45 minutes. I noticed the movie didn't make sense, but I was so groggy by then that I figured it was my brain screwing up and not the movie. It was probably both. Actually, HANNAH was probably one of the last movies (or portions thereof) that I ever saw at a drive-in.
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todmichel	Re: HANNAH, QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES (1973)	#11	[-]
Jun 29 07 2:23 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	According to Aurum's "Horror" Encyclopedia, there are serious differences between the Spanish version ("La tumba de la isla maldita"), even the credited director is not the same. Apparently the USA version (still according to the mentioned book) cut some sequences and others were shot, à la "Gojira / Godzilla, King of the Monsters". It would be interesting to get both versions and make a complete comparizon...
Plastic Sam	Re: HANNAH, QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES (1973)	#12	[-]
Jun 29 07 12:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I saw this at a drive in with OLD DRACULA. The only thing I remember about it is someone getting squashed under a big slab of stone.
BijouBob8mm	Re: HANNAH, QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES (1973)	#13	[-]
Jun 29 07 1:25 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	OLD DRACULA (aka VAMPIRA)...I caught that as the second half of a double bill with LOVE AT FIRST BITE.
Plastic Sam	Re: HANNAH, QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES (1973)	#14	[-]
Jun 30 07 10:37 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Bob, I suspect you had a better time at your double bill!
timothymayer	Re: HANNAH, QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES (1973)	#15	[-]
Jul 1 07 2:25 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Back when I was running the old Exploited Film Society in Columbus, Oh, we showed a 16mm as a Valentine's treat. It was under the title "Queen of the Vampires". I don't recall the movie as being very memorable.
Koukol 5	Re: HANNAH, QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES (1973)	#16	[-]
Jul 1 07 3:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I haven't seen this movie and i must say~you guys aren't really selling it ;)
BijouBob8mm	Re: HANNAH, QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES (1973)	#17	[-]
Jul 16 07 11:50 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Selling it? We can't even give it away!
Dr Acula		#18	[-]
Jan 13 11 9:48 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I kinda like it - it is slow, but it has that great 70's horror vibe, a babely vampire lady, and a more traditional look at the world of the vampire... and the final action sequences are pretty great!
The Drunken Severed Head		#19	[-]
Jan 17 11 2:07 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Dr. Acula, I completely agree with you. Jane and I saw it at George Reis' first drive-in event and we both liked it, despite the flaws mentioned here. http://universalmonsterarmy.com/blog/
Dr Acula		#20	[-]
Jan 18 11 3:19 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts
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