The Vampires' Night Orgy (1973)

The title has all of the words and none of of the bite. A group of new employees are on a bus headed to their employer's mansion. While in route the bus driver suddenly dies. Rather than place him on the luggage rack, like an real American family would do, they wrap him up and place him in the back of the bus. The crew opts to spend the night in a small village inn before pushing on, a very odd village where everyone disappears at night...and their bus won't restart...and the meat is like nothing they have tasted. Oh yes it is the type of inn where connecting rooms have a hole in the closet.AS as exciting as a grindhouse or sexplotation film as this sounds, it is not. It makes promises it doesn't deliver. It actually drags as you have to listen to bad dialog from translations.Brief nudity (Dyanik Zurakowska) Available in multipacks.

A bus full of travellers is heading for the town of Bojoni when the driver suffers a fatal heart attack, and the group is forced to stay in the deserted Tolnio village overnight. This and many other films begins with a similar premise.The first element of note is that this features one of the worst horror film music soundtracks I have ever heard. For example, a scene of a little girl exploring ruined buildings with a small boy who may or may not be a ghost, has every ounce of atmosphere drained completely by this often tuneless jazzy music. It sounds like a pornography soundtrack and does its best, for the most part, to kill all the efforts of Diector León Klimovsky and his team stone dead. Many of the moments uninfected by this rotten score are very effective – although there are no orgies to speak of, the various vampire activities are pretty sinister when not swamped by inappropriate melodies.Sadly, the whole project suffers because of this. It would otherwise be a fairly effective variation on the 'Night of the Living Dead' theme, with vampires replacing zombies. There are some good moments – the female vampire decomposing in the back of the car as Luis (Jack Taylor) and Alma (Dyanik Zurokowska) drive into the sun-set, and the afore-mentioned disappearing ghost-boy who accompanies young Violeta (Sarita Gill), for example. The locations are also very good, as films from this period often are – genuinely dilapidated buildings making haunting, ghostly panoramas proving to be very isolated backdrops.

This film is built around the device of a group of people diverted (accidentally or deliberately) to some isolating location, where they find themselves hosted by a party whom they at least initially take to be beneficient but who prove to be a spider or spiders.Well, that device has been exploited many times. Many times, the web has been a small town or village. Many times, the spiders have been vampires. So, what does this movie do that's different? Nothing much, and what it does often incoherent.Some summaries tell us that the people of the village are all vampires, and yet there seems to be a class of indigenous victim, three of whom are injured in the movie. We get no explanation of who these victims are.Other than the vampires, there's another supernatural entity, who functions as a lemur ex machina, with little rhyme or reason for his behavior.One of the visitors dies other than at the hands of a vampire, and when a vampire finds that character's body partially buried for no particular reason, hauls it out of its grave for no particular reason.The climactic battle is almost perfectly unconvincing.BTW, the apparent protagonist is a creep who spies on a woman as she undresses.

A bus driver taking a small group of hired help for a new job at a wealthy estate, has a heart attack leaving them in quite the predicament. Needing rest, they find a sleepy Spanish village surprisingly absent of citizens. One amongst them is attacked by those citizens who just so happen to be vampires, under the servitude of The Countess(Helga Liné, wasted in a rather underwhelming role). Soon the others' lives are at risk as the village folk, who seem hospitable if rather strange, await them when most vulnerable, at night. One by one, members of this group of outsiders fall prey to The Countess and her minions. Luis(Franco regular Jack Taylor), a traveler passing through, falls in love with Alma(Dyanik Zurakowska)and believes that the people of the village are not who they appear. His car was tampered with and fixing the cut wire will be a top priority so that Luis and, the ever-frightened Alma, can get out of this place before they are doomed like the others.Director León Klimovsky, known for his films starring Paul Naschy, attempts to develop an atmospheric horror film regarding trapped outsiders in a hostile place where vampiric citizens are around every corner. The vampires of this particular film are more in spirit with Romero's zombies with how they rush human victims, how their hands grab across the terrified faces of those screaming for help that will not arrive, and especially how León Klimovsky photographs their faces coming towards the screen. There's little to no blood, quite an anemic vampire film. The Countess only really conquers one victim with her bite, before tossing his torso over her bedroom's ledge for her blood-thirsty brood. She makes an appearance once as a seemingly generous host to the group with a supposed bus that can not crank. Later, The Countess appears again, exiting her crypt and eventually hopping in the backseat of Luis' car attempting to thwart their escape. Little nudity, merely a brief glimpse of Zurakowska's breasts, with Taylor's Luis spying on her through a torn hole which eyeballs directly into her bedroom. The night attacks are what I thought worked best while the tacky jazzy elevator musical score(s)leave anything to be desired. Quite low budget, with an twist ending that isn't needed and feels forced so that we are left wondering if what we saw was real or imagined. Liné, as the vampiric Countess, has a sex scene with a potential victim, but nothing is elaborated. Perhaps the most horrifying scene is the accidental suffocation of a young girl. Despite how lurid the title sounds, this really isn't that exploitive.