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The Body Beneath

"Sexually Rampant Ghouls, Depraved Souls... and Blood-Red Roses!"

A family of vampires takes over an estate known as Carfax Abbey. As inbreeding decays the family line, new blood is needed to keep the family going, so they set out to find new sources.

Top Cast

  • Gavin Reed

    Gavin Reed

    Rev. Alexander Algernon Ford

  • Jackie Skarvellis

    Jackie Skarvellis

    Susan Ford

  • Berwick Kaler

    Berwick Kaler

    Spool

  • Susan Heard

    Susan Heard

    Alicia Ford

  • Richmond Ross

    Richmond Ross

    Paul Donati

  • Emma Jones

    Emma Jones

    Candace Ford

  • Colin Gordon

    Colin Gordon

    Graham Ford

  • Judith Heard

    Judith Heard

    Elizabeth

  • Felicity Sentance

    Felicity Sentance

    Jessie

Overview

A family of vampires takes over an estate known as Carfax Abbey. As inbreeding decays the family line, new blood is needed to keep the family going, so they set out to find new sources.

Rating

4.9 / 10
23 Reviews
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1 Reviews

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    5 Apr 5, 2026

    As it turns out, incest isn't even a game for a family of vampires to play and so the ceturies-old residents of London's Carfax Abbey are having some procreational difficulties. Unless they can procure some new blood (literally) the ''Rev. Ford'' (Gavin Reed) and his toothy flock are facing extinction. They might have hope, though, in the form of the affianced ''Susan' (Jackie Skarvellis) and fiancé ''Paul'' (Richmond Ross). If they can turn them into a snack then that might at least sustain them long enough to set off for the new world where there are lots of burger-filled Americans to restore their failing blood Count. What chance the loved-up Londoners can thwart the scheming plot from this ostensibly charming vicar and his equally smiling lady-friends in his congregation? No, there is nothing remotely new about any of this and to be honest I kept seeing Robin Nedwell every time Reed came on set - and therefore expected some half-baked phnaa phnaa comedy to ensue afterwards. There is a slightly soft-porn look to this too - which seemed there because it could be, and the only acting of note came from Berwick Kaler as the mistreated factotum ''Spool'' (think a little of the Dickensian ''Smike'') who engendered just an hint of sympathy from a cast of others whom I thought would all prove just as chewy to digest as the script was to hear. There is a distinct lack of gore throughout, with barely even an hint of ketchup staining the proceedings and though it is quite short there just isn't anything like enough happening to keep it interesting.

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