The Vampire Happening

The Vampire Happening (1971)

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The Adult Vampire Sex Comedy!

An American actress inherits a Transylvanian castle, unaware that her ancestor was really a vampire countess, and has emerged from her tomb to ravage the nearby village and Catholic seminary

Date of release
1971-06-04
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (22)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Comedy, Horror
Director
Freddie Francis

Casting

Interesting facts

The Vampire Happening is a 1971 West German comedy horror film directed by Freddie Francis.

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 M…

I was aware from the start of the difficulties in shooting a horror parody. I really believed that I was working with normal people in the movie industry, and thought I could have made a decent film. With time, I became aware that the producer was an imbecile who treated the project like a home movie. He wanted to do the casting, make cameos in the film, and wanted his wife as an actress.

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