The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967 movie)

    The Fearless Vampire Killers is a different kind of vampire movie, it's more comical than the rest. The story is about Professor Abronsius and his clumsy and frightened assistant Alfred journeying to Transylvania to further prove the existence of vampires. They make rest at a inn and find that the folks are very scared of the vampires, because they have garlic all over the place and in every room. Alfred falls in love with the inn keepers red head daughter Sara. But the night that she was taking her bath, Sara is abducted by the head vampire Count von Krolock. It is up to Professor Abronsius and Alfred to go to the Counts castle and rescue Sara. The Professor see's this as a great opportunity to get more research of vampires, and to prove to the other professors that he's not a crazy fool.

    What makes this movie entertaining is watching Alfred be more aware of the danger's that he and the professor are in and seeing him scared out of his mind at everything that comes his way. The Professor doesn't seem to be affected by the dangers of being so close to the vampires. The Professor Abronsius and Alfred are on their territory, in a castle thats filled with vampires. Abronsius and Alfred have an unfair advantage, especially when losing their supplies of weapons and tools like garlic, crucifix's cross, etc.



   The next day in the castle Alfred finds Sara and tells her that they have come to rescue her. But she isn't moved by this news. She wants to stay for the midnight ball and wear a real ball gown. But this ball is not like any other ball. This one will be the gathering of all the other vampires and Count von Krolock (as well as the other vampires) will feed on the blood of both Sara, Professor Abronsius and Alfred, and turn them into vampires. When they become vampires, the Count wants the Professor to be his companion and have Alfred be Herbert's boyfriend. Herbert is the Counts gay son that has fallen in love with Alfred. Seeing the scenes with Herbert and Alfred are also entertaining, they just look very comical when in a room together.

     The night of the ball, Professor Abronsius and Alfred manage to get Sara and escape Count von Krolock's castle and return home safely, or so they think. Sara has already been turn into a vampire and bits Alfred. The Professor is clueless to what is happening behind him as he drives the carriage back to the inn. To him he thinks that he has succeeded in preventing the spread of more vampires. But Sara is out of the castle and the continuing of new vampires will emerge.

   There also another version of this story, it is told in the style of theater production. It is called Dance of the Vampires (or Tranz der Vampire in the German original version). The musical version is a remake of this movie, and I like the musical version better. In the musical version there is more going on between the characters. Not only singing, but they seemed more fleshed out in there characters than the actors in the movie. The only problem with the movie version is that there wasn't much talking going on, it seem more of a visual movie without words, like a silent film. Despite the lack of communication between characters, this movie was fun to watch and stretch the bar of how vampires movies can be made, not serious all the time, but comical.