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The Fearless Vampire Killers (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Vintage Making-Of Featurette The Fearless Vampire Killers: Vampires 101
- Theatrical Trailer
- Languages: English and French
- Subtitles in English, French and Spanish
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 5, 2004
- Originally Released: 1967
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jack MacGowran, Sharon Tate, Alfie Bass & Ferdy Mayne | |
Performer: | Roman Polanski, Iain Quarrier, Terry Downes, Fiona Lewis & Ronald Lacey | |
Directed by | Roman Polanski | |
Edited by | Alastair McIntyre | |
Screenplay by | Roman Polanski & Gérard Brach | |
Composition by | Krzysztof Komeda | |
Produced by | Gene Gutowski | |
Director of Photography: | Douglas Slocombe | |
Executive Production by | Martin Ransohoff |
Entertainment Reviews:
Ferdy Mayne is the menacing Dracula, and Sharon Tate, lady in question, looks particularly nice in her bath.
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Variety
Rating: 4/5 --
Infectiously silly vampire farce that's a lot more elegant than it had to be.
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eFilmCritic.com
Lustrous caricature of Hammer frights
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CinePassion
Messy vampire spoof-cum-homage to Hammer, which doesn't really come off on either count.
Time Out
The film amiably runs through all the standbys associated with vampire movies, putting a personal and goofy spin on most of them.
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Chicago Reader
...[With] authentic mood, production design and Christopher Komeda's superb musical score...
USA Today
Rating: 1/5 --
He was evidently only trying to make fun of horror films, forgetting that horror films, played straight, are now more often funny -- unconsciously to -- than horrible.
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New York Times
Description by OLDIES.com:
It's the living end, a fancy-dress ball for blood fiends in Count Von Krolock's Transylvanian castle. Surely no mortal would be foolish enough to infiltrate this hemogobbling horror of a soiree. But partygoers notice something in the ballroom mirrors: the reflections of humans - vampire killers - dancing among them.
Director/co-writer Roman Polanski (The Pianist, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown) spoofs vampire movies with this droll balancing act of shocks and laughs. He also portrays Alfred, mousy apprentice to a doddering researcher of vampirism (Jack MacGowran)...and the lovestruck defender of gorgeous Sarah (Sharon Tate) when the Count (Ferdy Mayne) tries to make her the ghoul of his dreams. It's all fang-tastic fun!
Product Description:
Following the success of REPULSION, THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS was Roman Polanski's first big-budget film, a noticeably more upscale and lavish production than any of his previous offerings. Professor Ambronsius (Jack MacGowran), an eccentric old academic specializing in the study of bats, and his bumbling but well-meaning assistant, Alfred (brilliantly played by Polanski himself), travel to a small village in snowbound Transylvania (actually, filming took place in the Italian Alps) that has been plagued by a clan of local vampires. After innkeeper Shagal's comely daughter, Sarah (Sharon Tate), is abducted by Count Von Krolock (Ferdy Mayne), Ambronsius and Alfred venture out to the count's castle to rid the area of its bloodsucking parasites once and for all--a dangerous undertaking indeed, especially since it soon becomes apparent that traditional weapons against the undead are not quite as effective as folklore would have one believe and that attractive young maidens are not the only ones in danger of becoming victims of a vampire' uninvited advances. One of Polanski's most impressive achievements in FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS is presenting viewers with a perfectly executed horror-parody while at the same time maintaining a consistent underlying sense of dread.