The Return of Count Yorga

The Return of Count Yorga
Directed by	Bob Kelljan
Written by	Bob Kelljan Yvonne Wilder
Produced by	Michael Macready
Starring	Robert Quarry, Mariette Hartley, Roger Perry, Yvonne Wilder, George Macready, Rudy De Luca, Edward Walsh, Craig T. Nelson
Distributed by	American International Pictures
Running time	1h 37 min.
Language	English

The Return of Count Yorga is a 1971 vampire/horror movie starring Robert Quarry. It was the sequel to the 1970 film Count Yorga, Vampire.

The Return Of Count Yorga features Robert Quarry returning as the infamous vampire Count Yorga, along with his servant Brudah. No explanation is given for the return of either character, both of whom died in the previous film.

The film focuses around Count Yorga buying property next to an orphanage where he and his brides begin to feed on the children and the local vixens. The vampire falls in love with one of the orphanage's teachers, Cynthia Nelson (Mariette Hartley). Yorga sends his undead brides to her house to kill her family (save for Cynthia's sister, who becomes one of Yorga's vampire brides, and her little brother Tommy, whom Yorga now controls). The brides then bring Cynthia to Yorga's residence, where he makes her believe that her parents left her in his care while they're out of town. Yorga then tries to charm the young woman into willingly becoming his bride. Meanwhile Jennifer, the Nelson's mute maid, happens upon the massacre scene the next morning and calls the police. By the time the police arrive though, all of the evidence has mysteriously been cleared away, and Tommy lies, claiming nothing has happened. However Baldwin, Cynthia's fiancee, is suspicious that the Nelsons would suddenly leave without telling anyone. He comes to realize the Count's true nature and manages to convince the police to join him in a disastrously unsuccessful raid on Yorga's lair.

The ending is a flip of the first film. In the original Count Yorga, Vampire, the hero rescues his girlfriend who then turns on him after Yorga's defeat, revealing herself as having become a vampire. In this film, it is the hero himself who, after defeating Yorga, turns on the woman he rescued and bites her, presumably turned by Yorga's brides during his rescue mission.

A third Yorga film, which would have featured a broken Count living in LA's sewers and creating an army of undead street people, never materialised.

External links

• The Return of Count Yorga at IMDb