Nonureva Really Surprised!

Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Michael Ledo Also known as Hannah, Queen of the Vampires this surprising "R" rated film is in black and white. Professor Bolton (Mariano García Rey) is killed in the first scene inside an ancient crypt on an Italian island. His son Chris (Andrew Prine) comes to the island and meets Peter (Mark Damon) and the local school teacher Mary (Patty Shepard). He discovers that the crypt that fell on his father was that of the vampire Hannah (Teresa Gimpera) who has been there since 1269. To the dismay of the village, he opens the crypt to find a perfectly preserved body.The film is low action. It is boring. At one point we discover the vampire can make herself into a mist and then a wolf, supposedly a werewolf, but it looked more like a regular wolf. Film is not for everyone. Very little cheese value, just a bad film.

BA_Harrison Crypt of the Living Dead was filmed in colour, but my copy—part of a dirt-cheap Mill Creek box-set of vampire movies—was presented in black and white (despite the packaging stating otherwise); amazingly, the lack of colour might actually work in the film's favour, lending a touch of much needed Gothic atmosphere to an otherwise rather tedious tale of vampirism in a remote island community.The film sees archaeologist Chris Bolton (Andrew Prine) visiting the island to claim the body of his father, who was crushed to death under a stone sarcophagus while investigating an ancient burial site; when Chris attempts to lift the marble tomb, he accidentally releases 700-year-old vampire Hannah (Barbara Steele lookalike Teresa Gimpera) who begins to feed on the locals, aided in her task by a wild-man in a furry waistcoat and a member of the village who seeks immortality.Slow moving and devoid of action for much of the time, the film will definitely prove hard going for many, but director Julio Salvador achieves just about enough effectively haunting moments to make it a worthwhile watch for vampire movie completists: the local fishermen's hostility towards Chris's arrival on the island immediately provokes an unsettling 'Wicker Man' vibe; Hannah's ability to turn into a cloud of mist or a wolf makes her all the more menacing; and the finalé manages to pick up the pace a tad (albeit a little late, perhaps) providing a few reasonable chills in the process.4.5 out of 10, rounded up to 5 for IMDb.

classicsoncall With a title like "Crypt Of The Living Dead" I guess I was expecting a little more in the way of zombie spectacle. Not that I'm particularly a fan of that type of genre, but you have certain expectations. What the picture lacks in horror and gore is suitably replaced by creepy atmosphere, which is probably the highlight of the film. In my case, the print I viewed was quite poor in sound quality; it was part of a twenty film DVD pack from Mill Creek Entertainment, and as one other viewer mentioned, the black and white format was certainly preferred for the subject matter. I actually learned more about the story from some of the other reviewers on this board than from watching the flick, but then again, I was able to pick up all the information I needed from a handful of scenes that moved the story along.OK, so Hannah (Teresa Gimpera) 1269 is a vampire looking none the worse for wear and fresh as a daisy from a seven hundred year long dirt nap. A little weak in the knees, her transformation into a werewolf is designed to buy time by feasting on other animals while gaining strength to do in some eventual humans. Not a bad concept, and actually quite sensible when you get right down to it. What really distracted me from the story was every single appearance of Andrew Prine on screen as Chris Bolton investigating his father's death. He looked like he could be the spitting image of a guy I knew about twenty years ago who's since passed away. That just added a certain intangible creepiness to the whole story for me.Anyway, you won't miss a whole lot if you pass on this one, but at the same time it's not the worst flick to while away a quick seventy five minutes. I'm still puzzled by the idea of a guy in a caveman get-up, but there's not enough there to get hung up about.

mikesrecords0 Crypt of the living Dead seemed like a pretty decent vampire film to me. As I was reading the other commentaries which were fairly negative, I suddenly realized that my version of this film (which came from a Mill Creek entertainment box set-Chilling Classics) is in black and white whereas the film was actually made in color (at least according to IMDb). I have often thought that certain types of films (gothic horror, film noirs etc) are better in BW anyway. Settings can seem more ephemeral and eerie. Gore and blood looks more other-worldly. I do realize that watching a color film in BW is suboptimal in the sense that you are not viewing all aspects that the director intended (similar to watching colorized films, I suppose).Nevertheless, I would suggest to viewers of this film that they at least try viewing it the way I have. It was a rather interesting experience. Perhaps Mill Creek also thought this film was better viewed this way.