The Vampire Lovers

With horror remakes the name of the game in the horror world these days, and original films becoming scarcer and scarcer at the box office, it seemed like a good time for ESplatter to look back in time at some of this memorable -- but sadly, unjustly forgotten -- splatter movies that remain unavailable in the U.S. after all these days. Today's title: "Twins of Evil." Back in the 1970s, when Hammer Studios was struggling to compete with sex 'n death-filled grindhouse movies playing 42nd street theaters, they injected some nudity into their vampire offerings. The "Karnstein Trilogy" consisted of three films based on the Karnstein vampire story -- basically a lesbian vampire. The first of these was the Ingrid Pitt classic "The Vampire Lovers," still available on DVD today.

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Notes & Queeries is a monthly column that focuses on the personal side of pop culture for lesbians and bisexual women.
As any regular AfterEllen.com reader knows, the number of lesbian and bisexual female characters on scripted television in the United States tends to hover in the low single digits.
In movie theaters, we have even less to cheer for. Hollywood barely manages to make films with interesting women characters, much less lesbian or bisexual ones. Independent film, niche television programming and internet video are all doing their part to raise the visibility of lesbians/bisexual women in entertainment.
But the fact is, we also need mainstream visibility. And this year, for better or worse, our best hope for mainstream visibility may lie in the lesbian vampire.
This past spring, the dreadfully reviewed horror-comedy Lesbian Vampire Killers attempted to update the campy exploitation films of the 1970s such as Daughters
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