https://vo.rs/tags/karnstein-trilogy/Latest from the Karnstein Trilogy desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/twins-of-evil-hammers-puritans-vs-vampires-morality-play/<p>Most Hammer vampire films know exactly who the villain is: the aristocrat in the castle with the appetite and the cape. <em>Twins of Evil</em> (1971) is the one that hedges the question, and it is the better for it. The film hands you a monster in the castle, all right — a decadent count dabbling in Satanism — and then plants directly opposite him a second, human monster: a fanatical witch-hunter burning innocent girls in the name of God. For most of its length <em>Twins of Evil</em> is a study of two fanaticisms, the supernatural and the puritanical, circling a pair of young women caught between them. That it comes packaged as a piece of early-1970s exploitation, with all the sensationalism the era demanded, only makes the moral seriousness underneath more surprising.</p>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000