The Fearless Vampire Killers

Director: Roman Polanski, Roman Polanski, Roman Polanski, Roman Polanski, Roman Polanski, Roman Polanski, Roman Polanski

1967 / 108min / DCP

Polanski, who usually treads a thin line between his realist and fantasist impulses, surrenders to the latter entirely in this lush fairy-tale film starring Jack MacGowran, Polanski himself, and his future wife, Sharon Tate. In this lovely, ludicrous soundstage confection set in the snow-coated Carpathian Mountains—Polanski, an avid skier, explores the cinematic potential of winter sports here as he never will again—with MacGowran and Polanski as inept vampire hunters, Ferdy Mayne as their elusive fanged quarry, and Tate as the fair maiden whose slender neck is in imminent danger.