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The Fearless Vampire Killers

Name: The Fearless Vampire Killers
Director: Roman Polanski
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Released: 1967
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass, Jessie Robins, Sharon Tate

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

1967 · Directed by Roman Polanski · 108 min · Comedy · Horror · 16 frames

Tagline

Who says Vampires are no laughing matter?

Crew

Screenplay: Roman Polanski, Gérard Brach
Cinematography: Douglas Slocombe
Edited by: Alastair McIntyre
Music: Krzysztof Komeda
Production design: Wilfred Shingleton
Produced by: Gene Gutowski

Cast

Jack MacGowran as Professor Abronsius
Roman Polanski as Alfred
Alfie Bass as Shagal, the Inn-Keeper
Jessie Robins as Rebecca Shagal
Sharon Tate as Sarah Shagal
Ferdy Mayne as Count von Krolock / Narrator
Iain Quarrier as Herbert von Krolock
Terry Downes as Koukol, the Servant
Fiona Lewis as Magda, the Maid
Ronald Lacey as Village Idiot

Production

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Language: English
Studios: Filmways Pictures, Cadre Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Budget: $2,000,000
Themes: vampire, professor, halloween

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The Ghost Writer — 2010
Repulsion — 1965
The Tenant — 1976
Pirates — 1986
Knife in the Water — 1962
Venus in Fur — 2013
The Pianist — 2002
The Ninth Gate — 1999
Carnage — 2011
Rosemary's Baby — 1968
Chinatown — 1974

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