Tockinit not horrible nor great

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

dworldeater Twins Of Evil, for me has just about all the key components for a classic Gothic horror classic. There are vampires, a castle, the classic Hammer sets, gorgeous Playmate twins, titties,devil worship, fanatical witchburners,a good amount of blood and gore and satanic sacrifices. Let's also not forget about Peter Cushing's cold and cruel performance as Puritan religious fanatic Guastav Weil, who with his followers terrorize all the hot single women in the area. That alone is worth a 10 star rating. The Collins twins look great and perform well here as one is good and the other is evil. Damien Thomas was great as Count Karnstein, another awesome Hammer villain. Very appropriate and under rated performance. The score is excellent as well as the camera work. Performances are solid across the board. Twins Of Evil is the 3rd and final film in Hammers Karnstein trilogy. Compared to the other two films, there is less eroticism and nudity, and no lesbian stuff. However, in every way the film is solid. Twins Of Evil is an excellent atmospheric horror classic in the Hammer tradition and one of its most well made films from Hammer from the 70's. If that sounds good to you, Twins Of Evil will not let you down.

lemon_magic This is a really weird mix of story elements, even for a Hammer film, and the odd mix and directorial style make "Twins Of Evil" a lot less enjoyable (and a lot less fun) than the "classic" Christopher Lee Dracula films. For one thing, the whole thing feels ugly and mean spirited. The only likable character in the whole first half of the film is "Cathy" (Peter Cushing's "wife"). Everyone else is a rigid, unreasoning fanatic (Cushing and the townsmen), a decadent murderer (the "Count"), or a helpless victim. (I don't count the "Twins" of the title, since they're pure ciphers for the first 30 minutes).And the film takes a little too much pleasure in watching innocent girls burn at the stake.And once things get rolling, there are still these weird "found" plot elements that seem to be there because the story told us that's how things had to be. Vampires are "undead" and can't be seen in the mirror, just...because. They can't fly or transform or command animals or the elements, but they CAN hypnotize people just...because. It turns out that Vampires can't be permanently destroyed by fire - their bodies melt, but their spirits are free to take over other bodies, but this is never demonstrated. So they must be impaled or decapitated, just...because. Nothing about running water, or silver, or garlic, but they hate crucifixes just...because. (And does anyone else find it odd that a choirmaster would know more about vampire lore than the witch hunter?) And once things get rolling...it's just a mess. One twin is bland and "good", one is evil, they have that whole "twin empathy thing" that is just there without being at all convincing. People are killed by vampires. The choirmaster's sister is killed off camera. The count kills people seemingly at random. The count tries to kidnap the good sister, is foiled by the crucifix, but only for a moment. The villagers fight the manservant (so the count sold his soul to the devil but only has one guy to defend his castle??). Peter Cushing's character dies uselessly, but the choirmaster manages to heave a javelin through the count's chest. The end.I don't know...maybe the version I saw was heavily edited to cut down on the running time and some scenes that would have made things hold together were taken out? There's still some good "Hammer" stuff in here, and I'm not sorry I took the time to track it down and see it. (For instance, the evil twin's decapitation is staged very nicely...but without showing us HOW the witch hunter knew to be there at the supposedly secret back exit she was taking. Like I said, the plot's a mess). The acting is...well, the acting is actually the best part of the movie, because although the characters are completely cardboard, the actors manage to invest them with presence and make you absolutely believe that those are real people under going real events. Peter Cushing is pretty good, as he always is, even if his role makes you want to set HIM on fire. So even if the screenplay itself is really sketchy and irritating, the director at least got one part of his job right. Verdict: worth seeing if you REALLY LIKE Hammer and want to see every film the studio ever put out. Worth seeing if you value atmosphere and dread over forward momentum and, for lack of a better term, "heart".

Lucabrasisleeps I know that it is controversial to place this movie among my favourite vampire films. Because obviously this movie is regarded as somewhat of a guilty pleasure among horror fans. But I do have to say I enjoyed this movie more than some other Hammer films.I liked this movie particularly because of the youthful characters and the general sexy nature of the story. And of course the nudity! This is the first Hammer vampire movie I saw with some delicious nudity. And not the kind of overdose of nudity that you see in Jess franco movies. But it is all very measured and erotic. In many ways you don't really root for Cushing's character that much because he seems like a stuffy old man in front of Karnstein and the twins. I liked the overall idea of the the evil twin in a vampire story. I don't know if it is original but I certainly found it interesting to see the contrast between the twins and the various ways in which it affects the story. Another thing I found interesting is the "chasing the bad boy" attitude (hey it might be centuries before but the attitudes remain the same!). We all want what we can't have and it is perfectly illustrated in Anton and Frida's preferences. I liked the idea of Cushing's character not being that clean cut. In the sense, we are repelled by his witch huntings but still somehow he thinks of himself as the nice man who fights for God. Somehow this seems like a changing of the times (post 1960s and all). He is also questioned, not like some pre 1960 movies where the religious authorities are not questioned that much. Both sides are portrayed as being evil in their own way and we don't really root for anyone other than maybe Anton who is able to see reason rather than act according to emotion.The twins Mary and Madeleine collinson are surprisingly good actors. They aren't just pretty faces in the movie, they have a large enough role and there is substance in the character. Damien thomas is also pretty good as the Count. For a guilty pleasure movie, the performances and the story are actually pretty good. Anyway I enjoyed the movie very much!8/10

poe426 TWINS OF EVIL boasts two of Hammer's greatest assets (who each boast an impressive set of assets), as well as Peter Cushing as their repressed witch-hunting uncle. Although his charges (orphans, we're told) are both prone to walking around in what amount to little more than nightgowns, uncle Gustav spends most of his time scouring the countryside for "loose" women to burn at the stake. The implication that he's sexually repressed and is taking his pent-up frustrations out on the local vixens is obvious. For Hammer Film fans, TWINS OF EVIL also shows us how the infamous Count Karnstein crossed over to the Other Side: he's bitten by the comely Carmilla- called "Mircalla," here. The lovelies who play the twins are both good actresses, which goes along way toward making TWINS OF EVIL one of Hammer's best.