Watching Roman Polanski’s 1967 vampire horror movie, Fearless Vampire Killers, thirty two years after its production I am given the feeling that the movie is a kitsch comedy of traditional investigative vampire movies. Definitely one of the best vampire movies I have seen, considering just the other day I sadly saw the homo-erotic Vampire movie horror starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. Plus, if anyone says Lt. Aldo Raines is Pitt’s worse performance they have to watch that plane wreckage of racism.
Fearless Vampire Killers follows Professor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) and his introvert apprentice Alfred (Roman Polanski) as they arrive in central Europe after a search across the rest of Europe for a mysterious murderer. Professor Abronsius findings have found him being outcast by the academic vanguard, and old, tired and on many occasions suffering from the cold weather they have hit. Alfred soon finds a love interest – the daughter of the in-law, played by his future wife, Sharon Tate.
After attacks on the landlord and his daughter, the inquisitive pairing go off on an amusing search towards the Counts castle. Drama and hilarity ensues as Polanski, and moreover Jack MacGowran give hilarious and strong performances, Sharon Tate also puts in a sombre and expressionless display as well. The searches of the castle in the daylight causes a lot of drama and funny situations – the Professor becoming stuck in the window of the Counts chamber, Alfred being chased around the castle by the Counts homosexual son, dancing in a hall of vampires in hope to save the landlords daughter and the ultimate ending.
Whilst Polanski’s character is a tranquil state of mind, believing he has saved the one woman he loves from certain death it appears they’re too late and instead the one thing they had been hoping to quell and stop, they actually help on its journey to world domination and destruction, just as the Count had hoped.
For some bizzare reason the Studios hasn't enabled embedding for the trailer for the soon to be released in Britain movie The Limits of Control, which impressively has Bill Murray in a role of authority. So, here is the link, because that's the best I can do, sorry. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7LsEJcxJs8
Also, a little belated, but here is the trailer for The White Ribbon, a tail of a small town, also known to be a allogory for Fascism - today I watched my second Haneke movie - The Time of the Wolf - and really enjoyed it, so I am definitely off to watch The White Ribbon when it's released (13th November).
