88
Slant Magazine
Twins of Evil benefits considerably from seasoned performances by a veteran cast that includes genre icon Peter Cushing, Dennis Price, and Kathleen Byron.
Twins of Evil
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- United Kingdom
- 1971
- · 87m
Director
John Hough
Cast
Peter Cushing,
Dennis Price,
Madeleine Collinson,
Mary Collinson,
Isobel Black,
Kathleen Byron
Genre
Horror
Frieda and Maria are identical twins who stay with their uncle after the death of their parents in the shadow of Karnstein Castle where, legend has it, vampires dwell. One of the twins is destined to fall under the castle's spell, but which one?
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88
Slant Magazine by Budd Wilkins
Twins of Evil benefits considerably from seasoned performances by a veteran cast that includes genre icon Peter Cushing, Dennis Price, and Kathleen Byron.
75
The A.V. Club by Noel Murray
Twins Of Evil, like the best of Hammer, is about entering a world of castles, creatures, and torch-wielding mobs, all a little darker and more colorful than expected.
70
The Telegraph
It's bawdy, sexy, gory, schlocky, and rollicks along at a cracking pace. [28 Feb 2014]
70
Variety
John Hough has given Tudor Gates’ script [based on a characters created by J. Sheridan Le Fanu] a good pace and directed so that audiences can take it as straight horror or as a slight send-up.
70
The Telegraph by Tim Stanley
It's bawdy, sexy, gory, schlocky, and rollicks along at a cracking pace. [28 Feb 2014]
70
Variety by Staff (Not Credited)
John Hough has given Tudor Gates’ script [based on a characters created by J. Sheridan Le Fanu] a good pace and directed so that audiences can take it as straight horror or as a slight send-up.
50
TV Guide Magazine
Director John Hough, who made his mark in several episodes of the popular television series The Avengers, keeps things moving at a brisk pace and stages the scenes of horror with considerable panache.
50
Time Out
Some moments of Gothic atmosphere though, don't quite dispel the feeling that much of the plot is devoted to developing situations where its leading ladies might be disrobed for the camera.
50
The New York Times
The rest of the costumed crew, led by that veteran horror hand, Peter Cushing, as the twins' witchhunting uncle, who chases the fanged Count and his retinue, hardly give Twins of Evil a good name.
50
Village Voice
Twins loses its center and therefore the nightmarish force of the earlier film. [10 Aug 1972, p.57]
50
Village Voice by Gary Alan Aspenberg
Twins loses its center and therefore the nightmarish force of the earlier film. [10 Aug 1972, p.57]
50
TV Guide Magazine by Staff (Not Credited)
Director John Hough, who made his mark in several episodes of the popular television series The Avengers, keeps things moving at a brisk pace and stages the scenes of horror with considerable panache.
50
Time Out by Staff (Not Credited)
Some moments of Gothic atmosphere though, don't quite dispel the feeling that much of the plot is devoted to developing situations where its leading ladies might be disrobed for the camera.
50
The New York Times by A.H. Weiler
The rest of the costumed crew, led by that veteran horror hand, Peter Cushing, as the twins' witchhunting uncle, who chases the fanged Count and his retinue, hardly give Twins of Evil a good name.
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