WOMEN OF HORROR: INGRID PITT

THE PITT OF HORROR! 

Daffy and delightful Ingrid Pitt came barreling out of the Hammer House of Horror to stake (!) her claim as the new horror queen of the early 1970s.  She portrayed the title character in Hammer's adaptation of the groundbreaking horror novella "CARMILLA" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu in THE VAMPIRE LOVERS; the first of Hammer's "Karnstein trilogy".  She assayed the role of the historical "bloody countess" Elisabeth Bathory who bathed in the blood of virgins to keep eternally young in COUNTESS DRACULA.  She suffered the nip of a veteran horror actor (Jon Pertwee) whose cursed antique cloak turned him into a real vampire in Amicus' THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD.  She was one of those mischievous pagans on Summerisle in THE WICKER MAN.  And she met Jon Pertwee again but this time as the Doctor in DOCTOR WHO:  THE TIME MONSTER and later Peter Davison's Doctor in DOCTOR WHO: WARRIORS OF THE DEEP where she famously battled against the Myrka!  Ingrid Pitt's Halloween Cv:

• THE VAMPIRE LOVERS (1970)
• COUNTESS DRACULA (1971)
• THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD (1971)
• DOCTOR WHO:  THE TIME MONSTER  (1972)
• THE WICKER MAN (1973)
• DOCTOR WHO:  WARRIORS OF THE DEEP (1984)
• FLESH AND BLOOD: THE HAMMER HERITAGE OF HORROR (1994)
• BRIDE OF MONSTER MANIA (2000)
• MIDNIGHT MADNESS:  THE HISTORY OF HORROR, SCI-FI & FANTASY FILMS (2010)

Carmilla & her "posse" from THE VAMPIRE LOVERS

 

with Nigel Green in COUNTESS DRACULA

 

back among the vampires in THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD

 

with Roger Delgado's Master in DOCTOR WHO: THE TIME MONSTER

 

undergoing a whimsical pagan ceremony in THE WICKER MAN

 

with Peter Cushing on the set of THE VAMPIRE LOVERS

 

giving the Myrka a karate kick to the breadbasket

 

portrait by famed FAMOUS MONSTERS artist Basil Gogos

 

 

 

TODAY'S "WOMEN OF HALLOWEEN" SONG ON MY AUDIO BLOG "BATHED IN THE LIGHT FROM ANDROMEDA" IS "HAMMER HORROR" BY KATE BUSH.  Rather appropriate, I'd say.