Fearless.

I just watched an old movie yesterday. I’m a movie guy; I like movies quite a bit (or maybe I should say film because it makes me sound so much smarter) .

I just watched a good flick today - Margot at the Wedding but the one I was thinking about when I started to write is from way back in the sixties.

The movie I was talking about is this old Roman Polanski movie, Fearless Vampire Killers. I don’t think a lot of people have seen it, or at least not a lot of people under the age of 40 for sure.

It’s a good flick, racy for its time and a bit forward-looking in its sensibilities. I guess you could put it on a double (or triple) feature with something like What’s New Pussycat or Casino Royale pretty easily.

Sharon Tate is in it too. I’m not sure if she and Roman Polanski were already an item when it was filmed or if their romance grew out of making this movie together but in either case it’s a little piece of history too.

I hadn’t seen it in a long time; I mean a really long time. I think I caught it on broadcast TV as a teenager and hadn’t seen it since so I was a bit curious to see if it held up to the memory I had. It did, something that is the exception for a lot of films.

Halloween is coming and I got to thinking a lot of folks usually go and rent Friday the 13th or some other scary flick but this is a bit more fun.

Check it out and you’ll see what I mean. (1573 Views pre transfer)