SummaryA noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
Directed By:Roman Polanski
Written By:Gérard Brach, Roman Polanski
The Fearless Vampire Killers
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Mixed or Average
56
User score
Generally Favorable
6.8
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
56
56% Positive
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22% Mixed
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89
It's almost dreamlike in its weird little tone, a Manischewitz hangover of a nightmare that's giddy enough to usher chuckles and is thoroughly unique.
88
Director Roman Polanski co-stars with and directs wife Sharon Tate in their only collaboration. That's one reason this box office bomb, which came out less than two years before Tate was murdered by Charles Manson's crew, has picked up a following. [08 Oct 2004, p.4E]
70
Funny and scary, this is vintage Polanski.
63
The film amiably runs through all the standbys associated with vampire movies, putting a personal and goofy spin on most of them. Sharon Tate also appears, at her most ravishing.
60
With all its faults, an engaging oddity.
30
This beautifully produced, superbly scenic and excitingly photographed spoof of old-fashioned horror movies is as dismal and dead as a blood-drained corpse.
25
Nobody laughed. One or two people cried, and a lady behind me dropped a bag of M&Ms which rolled under the seats, and a guy on the center aisle sneezed at 43 minutes past the hour. But that was about all the action.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.8
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Oct 16, 2021
8
Before Mel Brooks, Roman Polanski was the first to think of mixing horror and comedy, with no pretensions other than fun. The odyssey of two vampire hunters, doomed to something worse than failure, will not be a classic but it is a good example of sardonic humor. There have been worse things, yes.
Apr 18, 2022
5
I hate to say the word, but I think this film does fall into the overrated category.
It has a style that never fits properly and where it's supposed to be funny, it never is. Disappointing.
