23-657: John Hough may refer to: John Hough (director) (born 1941), British film and television director John Simpson Hough (1833-1919), American entrepreneur on the Santa Fe Trail, builder of the Baca House in Trinidad, Colorado John Hough (bishop) (1651–1743), English bishop See also [ edit ] John Haugh (1930–1998), Irish hurler Jack Hough (1916–1971), Australian politician [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
46-490: A Playboy spread involving the Collinson twins and decided to make a film focusing on them. Ingrid Pitt was again offered the part of Countess Mircalla Karnstein, but refused. The same sets were used for Vampire Circus . Harvey Hall and Kirsten Lindholm appear in all three films of the trilogy, although in different roles in each one. Peter Cushing also played one of the leads in the first, The Vampire Lovers (a part
69-646: A girl as a human sacrifice , calling forth the vampiress Countess Mircalla Karnstein from her grave. Mircalla turns the Count into a vampire . Frieda, following an invitation from the Count, steals away to the castle at night, while Maria covers for her absence. In the castle, the Count transforms Frieda into a vampire, offering her a beautiful young chained victim. Returning home, Frieda threatens Maria to keep covering for her nightly excursions, but she also secretly fears she might bite Maria, who would not survive due to her innocent nature. Meanwhile, Maria becomes interested in
92-569: Is a 1971 British horror film directed by John Hough and starring Peter Cushing , with Damien Thomas , real-life identical twins former Playboy Playmates Madeleine and Mary Collinson , Isobel Black , Kathleen Byron , Damien Thomas and David Warbeck . This was the Collison sisters' final acting roles. It is the third (and final) film in the Karnstein Trilogy , based on the 1872 novella Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu . The film has
115-661: Is a stern Puritan and leader of the fanatical witch-hunting 'Brotherhood'. Both twins resent their uncle's sternness and one of them , Frieda, looks for a way to escape. Resenting her uncle, she becomes fascinated by the local Count Karnstein, who has the reputation of being "a wicked man". Count Karnstein, who enjoys the Emperor's favour and thus remains untouched by the Brotherhood, is indeed wicked and interested in Satanism and black magic . Trying to emulate his evil ancestors, he murders
138-505: Is busy burning the other sister; somehow he teleports back home and the evil twin gives him a show. Cut out for American audiences and possibly to maintain continuity. The original scene was aired on public television in the 1980s. Music for the film was composed by the British composer Harry Robinson . The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The repressive austerity of the Puritans' life style –
161-444: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages John Hough (director) John Hough / h ɔː f / (born 21 November 1941) is a British film and television director. He is primarily known for his suspense films of the 1970s and 1980s, including Twins of Evil (1971), The Legend of Hell House (1973), The Incubus (1982) and American Gothic (1988), as well as
184-505: The 1974 action thriller Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry . After many credits as a second unit director on The Baron , The Avengers and The Champions , Hough took his first job as a director on the 1968 season of The Avengers , directing episodes such as "Super Secret Cypher Snatch" and "Homicide and Old Lace". "ITC was a very special place to work in", he said later. "And the people cared. Instead of asking you to do it quicker and with less quality, they'd push you to excel yourself. It
207-498: The Collinson twins. A.H. Weiler wrote in The New York Times that the Collinson twins made the film interesting, but "The rest of the costumed crew ... hardly give Twins of Evil a good name." In Cinefantastique Robert L. Jerome observed: "The film is done with Hammer's obvious care for details and a sobriety which creates the proper mood of unexpected evil in attractive, tranquil surroundings." A novelisation of
230-455: The Count. The Count and Frieda attempt to flee, but they are surprised by Weil who captures Frieda and decapitates her. The Count captures Maria, but Weil appears with an axe. Weil challenges the Count and is killed. Anton seizes his chance and pierces the Count's heart with a spear. Maria and Anton reunite while Karnstein crumbles to corruption. Hammer was originally going to make a film called Vampire Virgins ; however, producer Harry Fine saw
253-559: The bare oak walls of the meeting house and Weil's home, Cushing's ascetic features and clipped delivery – provides a running contrast to the high Gothic of Don Mingaye's lavish baronial set for Karnstein Castle, replete with mists, shadows and colour filter effects. ...Where Tudor Gates' previous Le Fanu adaptations ( The Vampire Lovers , Lust for a Vampire ) provided only the most anaemic opposition to their heroines' atrocities, in Twins of Evil
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#1732852463848276-410: The crusader role is interestingly transferred to the strong but morally equivocal Puritans, and as a result the film provides a study in opposites which never resolves simplistically into Good and Evil. John Hough's direction underlines the fanaticism on both sides ... and also gets full value from the script's Gothic set-pieces. The reincarnation of Countess Mircalla, an ectoplasmic shape rising from
299-541: The film was written by Shaun Hutson and published by Arrow Publishing in association with Hammer and the Random House Group in 2011, ISBN 978-0-09-955619-0 . The book contains an introduction by the film's director, John Hough. The film was adapted into an 18-page comic strip for the January–February 1977 issue of the magazine House of Hammer (vol. 1) #7, published by General Book Distribution . It
322-426: The final film in its erotic vampire horror 'Karnstein' trilogy, Twins of Evil (1971). Hough moved to Hollywood with the intention of making inroads to direct for Disney . While doing so, a new production company, Academy Pictures Corporation (started by former American International Pictures partner, James H. Nicholson ), hired Hough to direct the low-budget action picture Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry . The film
345-464: The handsome young teacher, Anton, who is initially infatuated with the more mysterious Frieda. Anton has studied what he calls "superstition", but becomes convinced of the existence of vampires when his sister falls victim to one. One night, when Frieda attacks a member of the Brotherhood, she is captured by her uncle and put in jail. While the Brotherhood debates the vampire woman's fate, the Count and his servants kidnap Maria and exchange her for Frieda in
368-417: The jail cell. Anton goes to see Maria, not knowing that she is actually Frieda. She tries to seduce him, but he sees her lack of reflection in a mirror and repels her with a cross. Anton rushes to rescue Maria from a burning. Maria kisses a cross, revealing her innocence. Weil now listens to Anton's advice on hunting vampires, and the two men lead the Brotherhood and the villagers to Castle Karnstein to destroy
391-722: The least resemblance to the novella and adds a witchfinding theme to the vampire story. Much of the interest of the film revolves around the contrasting evil and good natures of two beautiful sisters, Frieda and Maria. Unlike the previous two entries in the series, this film contains only a brief lesbian element . The film was released in the U.S. as a double feature with Hands of the Ripper . Set during in historical Styria , identical twin sisters Maria and Frieda Gelhorn move from Venice to Karnstein in Central Europe to live with their uncle Gustav Weil after becoming recently orphaned. Weil
414-508: The notes for his biography on the DVD of his 1980 film The Watcher in the Woods , "but in 1970 a Hollywood producer named Paul Maslanksy came over here looking for a new director to work on a remake of The Window (1949), in which a young boy is the sole witness to a murder and is then tracked down by the assassin." The film Eyewitness (1970) was well received; Hammer then approached him to make
437-404: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Hough&oldid=1017335679 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
460-417: The sarcophagus and floating in hooded silence towards the terrified Karnstein, is a tour de force. And though Twins of Evil has its share of the usual Hammer deficiencies – insipid juveniles and some over-familiar Pinewood locations – it is easily the best of their vampire films for some time." Film critic Leonard Maltin gave the film two and a half stars, calling it "engaging" and "inspired" in its use of
483-580: Was creative and interesting, but very disciplined. It was like Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel on a nine-to-five contract." Hough's TV work led to a TV pilot for a proposed Robin Hood TV show, Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood in 1969. Even though the series never materialised, the pilot was picked up by Hammer Films , which distributed it theatrically. "That one sank without trace", Hough recalled in
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#1732852463848506-820: Was very successful in the summer of 1974, and helped open the doors to Disney, where Hough directed Escape to Witch Mountain which was successful and Watcher In The Woods . Hough later directed three of the TV movies in the 1984 anthology series Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense . He directed a series of films based on Barbara Cartland novels starting with A Hazard of Hearts . He also directed Something to Believe In (1998) for Lew Grade . Director Boom assistant 3rd assistant director 2nd unit director Producer Executive producer Unmade films TV movies TV series 2nd unit director Associate producer Producer Twins of Evil Twins of Evil (also known as Twins of Dracula )
529-426: Was written for Cushing in the second film, but he dropped out of the production due to the illness of his wife. The role was taken over by Ralph Bates ). Luan Peters, who plays a small role in this film, also appeared in the second film, Lust for a Vampire , as did Judy Matheson. The original film included a short scene, later cut, in which the evil twin approaches her uncle. The scene is out of place as their uncle
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