Anyone remember this movie (an old one) ?!
Question: I remember watching around Christmas time when I was really young, so it was probably around 20 years ago (maybe even longer), think it may have been from the 60's and the film was set in the late 19th - early 20th Century, it was a vampire/dracula movie, I can remember there been a man and his wife and an old man (maybe the mans dad) in it, a castle, lots of well dressed vampires having a ball, think the wife was captured, the man and his dad rescue her and it ends with them escaping on a horse and cart on a snow covered road, the camera turning to the wife who then opens her mouth to show her fangs and going to bite her husband !
Have tried to find out what this movie was called before with no success, can anyone help ?
Answers: I remember watching around Christmas time when I was really young, so it was probably around 20 years ago (maybe even longer), think it may have been from the 60's and the film was set in the late 19th - early 20th Century, it was a vampire/dracula movie, I can remember there been a man and his wife and an old man (maybe the mans dad) in it, a castle, lots of well dressed vampires having a ball, think the wife was captured, the man and his dad rescue her and it ends with them escaping on a horse and cart on a snow covered road, the camera turning to the wife who then opens her mouth to show her fangs and going to bite her husband !
Have tried to find out what this movie was called before with no success, can anyone help ?
The Fearless Vampire Killers or, Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck (1967)
aka Dance of the Vampires
starring Roman Polanski (also directed and co-wrote the story), Sharon Tate (who became Mrs. Roman Polanski), Jack McGowran, Alfie Bass, Ferdy Mayne, Fiona Lewis
BEWARE! SPOILERS!
IMDB plot summary:
Professor Abronsius and his assistant Alfred arrive to a small distant village in Eastern Europe in a hope to prove their theory that vampires really exist. Alfred falls in love with a beautiful girl, Sarah, who gets attacked and kidnapped by a vampire Count von Krolock, and he decides to rescue her out of the Count's castle whatever it takes.
Professor and Alfred move to the castle and are very friendly received by hospitable Count von Krolock, who offers them to stay there as long as they like, but doesn't mention a ball next night, where his friends come to drink their blood and make new vampires out of them.
They spend the next day in attempts to find and kill Krolock, but don't succeed. They lose their luggage with weapons like garlic and crucifix, and learn about the ball.
Alfred finds Sarah, who is still a human; she does not want to escape right now, losing the unique possibility to wear a great dress for a real ball. The three of them stay for another night.
Krolock's son Herbert falls in love with Alfred and tries to bite him. Alfred rescues himself and the professor in a tower. The Count meets them there to inform, that they will become vampires tonight and will spend their endless lives in the castle. Professor Abronsius is supposed to be Count's companion and Alfred Herbert's boyfriend.
They escape from the tower and go to the ball to rescue Sarah. This time they succeed and finally leave the castle. They don't know, that Sarah has already become a vampire. She bites both of them.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061655/
I imagine that most people know about the death of Sharon Tate and her unborn child at the hands of the Manson Family. If you'd like to see her in a dramatic role, watch "Eye of the Devil", starring David Niven, Deborah Kerr and David Hemmings.
NOTE: When I saw the dance in "Van Helsing", I immediately thought of the masquerade ball held in this film. "Van Helsing" also makes a nod to "Vampire Circus" in that scene.
i like old movie
it could be "kiss of the vampire" made in 1963.
not set in the 19th century though.
very similar plot to the one you speak of. look at the link below to see the details.