Review – Kiss of Evil

Stench of boredom is more like it. Honestly, when are these dashing but dim-witted Hammer heroes ever going to figure it out? When your car breaks down in an isolated part of central Europe and you get invited to be the guest of the local baron, you just know his castle is going to turn out to be chock-full of vampires and he’s going to go straight after your beautiful but ditzy wife. The only interesting wrinkle this time around is that after laughing boy loses his babe to the wily bloodsuckers and flees to the cranky old man in the village for help, the cranky old man enlists the aid of Satan to defeat the forces of darkness. That was a little brain-bending. Otherwise this predictable effort doesn’t even bother to offer the usual Hammer benefit of either Christopher Lee or Peter Cushing in the cast. Released on the other side of the Atlantic as The Kiss of the Vampire. See if desperate