Bloodsuckers (aka
Doctors Wear Scarlet, Freedom Seekers, Incense of the Damned) is an original take on the vampire myth: it proposes that vampirism is a psychological sickness linked to sexual repression rather than anything supernatural. Shot on location in Greece and England and starring horror film luminaries like
Peter Cushing (Hammer's
Dracula, etc.) and
Edward Woodward (
The Wicker Man), it centers on a young student who has disappeared in Greece. When his friends search for him they notice that wherever he has been a number of murders have taken place. They find their friend under the spell of a beautiful vampire, whose blood-sucking methods include the use of S&M sex. Believing that they have killed her, the group return to England, unaware that their friend is now a vampire...
