Review of The Vampire Lovers (1970) by Stuart K — 18 Nov 2009

The life force of a young woman is gradually drained from her each time she makes love to her lesbian lover. Her father is inflamed at her choice of a vampire for a sexual partner, and calls in two vampire hunters, one played by Cushing.

There's plenty of action that opens with Cushing's mentor burning a vamp's bust with a crucifix to determine that she is indeed undead, and then decapitating her. Cushing picks up the technique and also begins wasting femme vamps by decapitating them.

. Hammer nearly rejected it at first, not for sensational violence, but because of the sexual taboos.