'The Body Beneath' (1970) - Andy Milligan.

Widely regarded by many staunch Andy Milligan fans as being one of his more narratively cohesive, dramatically robust and visually competent low budget horror films, his gloriously camp, sinisterly sardonic, fantastically skewed iteration of the immortally pilfered Bram Stoker mythos, 'The Body Beneath' has much audaciously psychedelicized, psychotronically-endowed magnificence to recommend it for those unfortunate souls who have yet to fully experience the spectacularly unbound cinematic idiosyncrasy of macabre maestro Andy Milligan's insanely addictive, avaunt-absurd, micro-budgeted horror milieu!

One of only two modestly budgeted productions in the United Kingdom, Milligan's singularly strange vampire yarn concerns the altogether nefarious plasma-purloining machinations of the deliciously theatrical tomb-trifling tyrant, the entirely irreverent reverend Algernon Ford (Gavin Reed), and once lavishly ensconced in the oppressive Gothic environs of creepy Carfax Abbey, the dastardly blasphemous blood-fiend and his obediently deviant entourage begin to malevolently coerce various bemused members of the disparate Ford Family clan to his delectably forbidding abode, and we then get to enjoy the outrageously outré manifestation of Algernon's monstrously profane blood rites!

While many of the vampiest tropes of ye olde Bloodsucker lore are garishly purloined, the lingering pleasures of morbidly magnificent masterclass 'The Body Beneath' is mirth-master Milligan's frequently outlandish repartee, his wicked predilection for vividly camp terror-theatrics, and inherent 'otherness' which makes his uniquely unsavoury exploration of Vampire Gothic so much absurdist fun! Gavin Reed's perfectly perverse Reverend is certainly no less ridiculous and fearfully flowery than Robert Quarry's sublimely sinister Count Yorga, and his mute, knitting needle brandishing wife Alicia (Susan Heard) is arguably one of the more memorably bizarre horror villains, plus the altogether pitiful hunchback Spool (Berwick Kaler) can stand proudly hunched alongside Ralphus as Grindhouse horror's most adorable and pathetic B-Movie freak!