The Vampire Happening/Gebissen wird nur nachts (1971)
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Betty Williams is coming home, to Transylvania. She is the niece of the owner of the home. Unfortunately for everyone involved, she is also a look-alike for Clarimondy – a well-known vampire who just passed away. So she tries to set up life in this home (also taking her Romanian name of Elizabeth von Rabenstein) and meanwhile she ends up waking Clarimondy from her sleep. With one going around biting people’s necks and the other attempting to cover this up, it makes life for the nearby Monastery, hell. But soon Elizabeth also turns vampirific and now everyone must try to save the town. But beware, because Dracula will
make an entrance too!
Overall: This is a German film which tries to have fun with itself. Unfortunately, I think it fails. The film becomes so laughable that the story becomes inane. The butler dons a helmet to avoid being bitten, an airline steward is soooo gay, it practically oozes out of him, and some nearby priests enjoy watching young German girls having sex. God knows if the girls were even 18 when the film was made. You could skip the movie and not lose 2 hours of sleep. Comparison: Dracula: Dead and Loving it meets Judgement at Nuremberg |
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