Incense for the Damned

Incense for the Damned
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Directed by	Robert Hartford-Davis
Produced by	Graham Harris executive: Peter Newbrook
Screenplay by	Julian More
Based on	Doctors Wear Scarlet by Simon Raven
Starring	Patrick Macnee Peter Cushing Edward Woodward
Music by	Bobby Richards
Cinematography	Desmond Dickinson
Production company	Lucinda Films
Distributed by	Titan Film Distribution Chevron Pictures (US)
Release date	1972
Running time	87 min
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Incense for the Damned (also released as Bloodsuckers, Freedom Seeker and Doctors Wear Scarlet) is a 1970 British horror film. Starring Patrick Macnee, Patrick Mower and Peter Cushing, it is based on the 1960 Simon Raven novel Doctors Wear Scarlet.

The film centers on Richard Fountain, an Oxford don who has fallen under the influence of a mysterious Greek girl and her suspicious associates. Fountain's friends visit Greece to get him back and notice that wherever he has been a number of murders have taken place. They find their friend under the spell of a beautiful vampire, whose blood-sucking methods include the use of S&M sex. Believing that they have killed her, the group return to Great Britain, unaware that their friend is now a vampire.

Shooting took place in part in Greece and Cyprus. Money ran out during production causing filming to halt in the spring of 1969; it resumed later on. This involved writing of new scenes with new actors and a new director. Robert Hartford-Davies, the original director, subsequently disowned the movie.