Roman Polanski’s The Fearless Vampire Killers at the New Beverly Cinema

Director Roman Polanski was a big fan of Hammer Films and, reportedly, one of the main reasons he made the dazzlingly macabre comedy The Fearless Vampire Killers was as a tribute to the British gothic horror maestros. It’s also the film where he began dating rising star (and future spouse) Sharon Tate who appears here as the innkeeper’s daughter whose whisked away by Count von Krolock (Ferdy Mane) to his snowbound mountain castle. The eccentric, elderly vampire hunter Professor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) and awkward assistant Alfred (Polanski, doing double duty) are soon in hot pursuit to rescue the damsel-in-distress. 35mm, 1967, UK/USA, Comedy/Horror, 107 minutes, in English.

Directed by: Roman Polanski
Written by: Gérard Brach, Roman Polanski
Starring: Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate, Ferdy Mayne, Alfie Bass.

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