The Fearless Vampire Killers

1967

Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror

27
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 75% · 33 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 75% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 35797 35.8K

vampire professor cult film

Plot summary

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

Director

Roman Polanski Photo
Roman Polanski

Top cast

Sharon Tate Photo
Sharon Tate as Sarah Shagal
Vladek Sheybal Photo
Vladek Sheybal as Herbert
Alfie Bass Photo
Alfie Bass as Shagal, the Inn-Keeper
Ronald Lacey Photo
Ronald Lacey as Village Idiot
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
725.5 MB
1280*522
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
25 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 5
1.54 GB
1920*784
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
25 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 30

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by franbelle10 8 / 10

They were joyfull in that time

A horror comedy, a parody film about vampire films, with all the clichés of the genre and the scathing humour to boot.Great art, fresh but claustrophobic, joyful but scary, ending well but maybe not really.A testament to an era when filmmakers knew how to have fun - and Sharon Tate is a beautiful girl to chew on.A good moment of cinematographic humour to share in the dark ... but maybe not so dark.
Reviewed by Red-Barracuda 7 / 10

Not very funny but it does have Sharon Tate

Dance of the Vampires isn't a very typical offering from Roman Polanski. This is his first colour feature film and up until this point his films were decidedly left-field and arty. This one is a considerably more commercial offering. It's effectively a parody of the British Hammer horror films that had been very popular up to this point. So its cultural references were fairly mainstream in the 60's. Set in the 19th century, it's about a professor and his assistant who travel to Eastern Europe seeking vampires. Before long they find themselves at the castle of the mysterious Count von Krolock.The problem I have with this film is fairly straightforward – I don't find it very funny. The humour is very broad and present throughout. It ranges from the clever (a Jewish vampire who is unafraid of a crucifix) to the low-brow (lots of slapstick). It's occasionally amusing but rarely properly funny. So this is a bit of a problem in a film that is first and foremost a comedy. On the plus side it does look pretty, with nice snowbound landscapes and a Gothic castle to look at. The vampire's ball is also very good. But, for me, the single best aspect of Dance of the Vampires is easily Sharon Tate. She is achingly beautiful and provides a very welcome sensuality to proceedings. Her horrible murder two years later at the hands of the Manson Family clearly robbed the film world of someone quite considerable.
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