The Vampire Happening
5 /10 1 Votes
Music director Jerry Van Rooyen | 4.8/10 Genre Comedy, Horror Duration Country West Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer August Rieger , Karl-Heinz Hummel Release date June 4, 1971 (1971-06-04) (West Germany) Cast (Betty Williams / Clarimonde), (Jens Larsen), Yvor Murillo (Josef (as Ivor Murillo)), (Count Dracula (as Ferdie Mayne)), (Martin), Oskar Wegrostek (Abt)Similar movies Dracula Untold , Blade: Trinity , Hotel Transylvania 2 , The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring , From Dusk Till Dawn , Dracula: Prince of Darkness Tagline The Adult Vampire Sex Comedy! |
The Vampire Happening (German: Gebissen wird nur nachts) is a 1971 West German comedy and horror film directed by Freddie Francis.
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Plot

An American actress inherits a castle in Transylvania. What she does not know is that her ancestor, the Baroness Catali, was in actuality a vampire countess, and emerges from her tomb to ravage the nearby village and Catholic seminary.
Production

In the early 1970s, Italian producer Pier A. Caminnecci was looking for a film for his wife Pia Degermark whose previous film Elvira Madigan (1967) was a critical and financial success. Caminnecci set up an international production for her in West Germany directed by British director Freddie Francis and written by German screenwriters August Rieger and Karl-Heinz Hummel The script features a sub-plot based on Theophile Gautier's short story "La Morte Amoureuse"
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Reception

The film was not well received. Allmovie gave the film one and a half stars out of five, stating that it is "not considered to be one of the crown jewels of the genre" In his book Comedy-Horror Films:A Chronological History, author Bruce G. Hallenbeck referred to the film as "sort of a ripoff of Polanski's The Fearless Vampire Killers" and "doesn't come within lightyears of Polanski's vision"
References
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