Nigel P A bus full of travellers is heading for the town of Bojoni when the driver suffers a fatal heart attack, and the group is forced to stay in the deserted Tolnio village overnight. This and many other films begins with a similar premise.The first element of note is that this features one of the worst horror film music soundtracks I have ever heard. For example, a scene of a little girl exploring ruined buildings with a small boy who may or may not be a ghost, has every ounce of atmosphere drained completely by this often tuneless jazzy music. It sounds like a pornography soundtrack and does its best, for the most part, to kill all the efforts of Diector León Klimovsky and his team stone dead. Many of the moments uninfected by this rotten score are very effective – although there are no orgies to speak of, the various vampire activities are pretty sinister when not swamped by inappropriate melodies.Sadly, the whole project suffers because of this. It would otherwise be a fairly effective variation on the 'Night of the Living Dead' theme, with vampires replacing zombies. There are some good moments – the female vampire decomposing in the back of the car as Luis (Jack Taylor) and Alma (Dyanik Zurokowska) drive into the sun-set, and the afore-mentioned disappearing ghost-boy who accompanies young Violeta (Sarita Gill), for example. The locations are also very good, as films from this period often are – genuinely dilapidated buildings making haunting, ghostly panoramas proving to be very isolated backdrops.

Bezenby Cheeky little number involving a bus load of folks hired for some far off job travelling the Spanish countryside when their bus driver has a heart attack and dies. While stashing his body safely in the overhead compartment, they debate whether to head on to their planned destination or stop for the night at the sinister village that's just mysteriously appeared nearby. Being characters in a horror film, they of course choose the village.Also, being characters in a horror film, they show no surprise whatsoever when they find the village deserted, but the local hotel's bar stuffed with booze, a roaring fire going, and loads of rooms ready to sleep in. They meet another traveller played by Jack Taylor, from every Spanish film ever made including Ghost Galleon, the hilarious Pieces, and ever Jess Franco film that's escaped to torment the public. He's also non-plussed about the deserted village, but he's tickled pink to find a hole in his hotel bedroom wall that allows him to spy on the pretty girl of the bus party.After one of the bus party is secretly eaten out in public, screaming in agony while no one notices, everyone else gets up in the morning to find the villagers have returned. Turns out they were holding some sort of rave down at the local cemetery. They also serve the travellers a cooked human leg (donated by a reluctant villager) as they don't have any normal meat. As you have figured out the village is full of vampires and the travellers are all on the menu. Problem is, the travellers haven't figured it out yet.While not overflowing with gore or nudity (although it has a bit of both), this one is quite well paced for a Spanish horror film and has a nice creepy atmosphere throughout. There's a ghostly kid who hangs out with a travelling kid, the countess who seduces one of the bus party, and the whole thing reminded me a bit of Messiah of Evil, what with the entire town turning up and silently descending on the victims. There's also a bit of humour, what with the vampire with axe having to villagers to 'donate' body parts.As with most Spanish films, I have no idea if this is cut or not…but it's a good 'un

Rainey Dawn There is not a sexual orgy within the film.This is definition #2 from the dictionary: Orgy: any actions or proceedings marked by unbridled indulgence of passions: an orgy of killing. An act of immoderate or frenzied indulgence.A frenzied indulgence of blood and flesh-eating -> blood and cannibalism. These vampires are violent - this is a horror film and not a porn movie. There really isn't any soft-core porn to this film, its simply a decent vampire movie.This film is average... it's not great but it's not all that bad. I found it entertaining in it's way. Some vampire fans might like this film but it's not a film that I believe most of the younger fans would enjoy.5/10

Witchfinder General 666 Genreally speaking, I admire director León Klimovsky, mainly for the films he made with Spanish Horror/Exploitation legend Paul Naschy, of whom I'm a big fan. Klimovsky's doubtlessly most famous film is "La Noche De Walpurgis" ("Werewolf vs. Vampire Women", 1971) , which is also the most widely known entry to the Waldemar Daninsky cycle, in which Naschy played his most famous role, the eponymous Werewolf. Spanish 70s low-budget productions like these are mostly not exactly 'great', of course, but they are terrific entertainment and all hold genuine creepiness and a certain inimitable charm. Klimovky's "La Orgía Nocturna De Los Muertos" aka. "The Vampires' Night Orgy" (1973) also has this certain charm typical of Spanish 70s Horror, but, sadly, it is also one of the dullest films of its kind. The film definitely has its moments, but overall it gets pretty boring in-between (at a running-time of barely 80 minutes). At times, it is refreshingly absurd, though, and, in many parts, it is unintentionally hilarious.A bunch of people who are to be employed at a mansion are traveling to their new workplace when the bus driver suddenly dies, and the bus breaks down at a remote mountain village. What they are not aware of, is that the village, which is ruled by a Countess (Helga Liné), is entirely populated by vampires...What makes this film amusing is that it goes very far in terms of illogical continuity - all the inhabitants of the village are vampires, for example, and yet a bizarre guy with an axe keeps chopping limbs off his fellow villagers 'on behalf of the countess'. A guy watches a beautiful lady undress through a hole in the wall (which is bigger than his eye, but yet she doesn't notice). He continues to make some 'eerie' scratching sounds on the wall, and leaves a note at the door saying that 'someone is watching over her', which she finds very sweet (!). In the film's most hilarious scene, a guy recites Shakespeare to the Countess - the most preposterous recitation one could possibly imagine. The film also has its creepy moments - the best aspect is arguably the creepy setting. The remote mountain village and its cemetery look creepy, as do the nighttime gatherings of the ghoulish village population. The jazzy score is not as bad as some claim, but it often seems terribly out of place. The cast includes many familiar faces for Eurohorror enthusiasts. Eurohorror regular Jack Taylor plays the hero, the female roles are cast with Helga Liné as the Countess, and Dyanik Zurakowska, and many of the other cast members also look familiar, mainly from European Horror and Exploitation productions. In common Exploitation tradition, this one's title might raise expectations that the film doesn't live up to - "The Vampires' Night Orgy" contains very little sleaze. Overall, this film is amusing at times, and my fellow fans of Spanish Horror may give it a try, yet it is terribly dull at times, and Klimovsky has done far better film. I recommend watching his films with Paul Naschy instead of this one.