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Vampires (The) AKA I Vampiri AKA The Devil's Commandment AKA Lust of the Vampire (1957)
Beautiful Parisian girls were his victims!Director: Riccardo Freda (as Robert Hampton), Mario Bava (uncredited)
Year of Copyright: 1957
OVERALL: R0-
OVERALL: R0
The German version for including three versions of the film and being English-friendly.
This film is also known as:
-Evil's Commandment
GENERAL NOTES:
The film exists in at least four versions:
- the Italian original
- the shorter German version (exclusive material turns up in the theatrical trailer depicting the fate of one of the characters that was changed by order of the Italian censors during production, but that footage does not appear in the German version)
- the English export version (a rare print of which was shown at one of the Mario Bava retrospectives in the 1990s)
- the American version that cuts footage and replaces it with saucy footage for adult audiences. -
CUTS:
- R0 America- Image Entertainment - No cuts - original Italian version (77:56 NTSC)
- R0 Limited Edition Germany- Anolis Entertainment - No cuts - includes the German version (73:59 PAL), the Italian version (78:00 PAL), and the U.S. version (69:20 PAL) featuring exclusive nudie footage.
- R0 Russia- Film Prestige - No cuts (77:56 NTSC)
- R2 Holland- Dutch FilmWorks - No cuts (77:58 PAL)
- R2 Spain- Filmax Home Video - No cuts (77:56 PAL)
- R2 Black Sunday United Kingdom- Arrow Video - No cuts (77:54 PAL)
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Comparison added by Jari_Kovalainen on 21/11/07
Comparison last updated by Eric_Cotenas on 13/10/24UPDATE LOG:
01/08/13 : Added Russian, Dutch, Spanish, and UK releases.
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21/10/20: Updated year, notes.
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