**_Gothic drama/romance marked by villages, castles, maidens and vampirism_** In 1830, a writer (Michael Johnson) visits a village in the shadow of the diabolic Karnstein Castle in Austria whereupon he decides to teach at a nearby female school after meeting a lovely new pupil (Yutte Stensgaard). Another student (Pippa Steel) and the headmaster (Ralph Bates) are also enamored by Mircalla. What is the secret of her magnetism? Could she be the reincarnation of Countess Carmilla Karnstein, who died in 1710? Christopher Lee lookalike Mike Raven is on hand as sinister Count Karnstein. “Lust f...