FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Scott LeBrun "The Slaughter of the Vampires" tells what is a pretty standard story. It does things competently but never extravagantly. Written and directed by Roberto Mauri, it stars the creepy looking Dieter Eppler as a blood sucker. On the run from angry villagers, he holes up in the basement of a castle. This castle belongs to newlywed couple Wolfgang (Walter Brandi) and Louise (Graziella Granata). In no time our night stalking antagonist is seducing Louise. Fearful for her life, Wolfgang turns to a specialist, Dr. Nietzsche (Luigi Batzella), who's a pretty fair stand-in for Van Helsing.The atmosphere is decent, the dialogue fairly eloquent, and some of the performances are adequate. Eppler and Batzella are clearly standouts. It doesn't hurt any that there are some very attractive ladies present. However, Wolfgang is a pretty big dummy, as one will see, and it's a good thing Dr. Nietzsche is so competent. Pacing is deliberate, and the running time is a reasonably short 79 minutes. Overall, the film is romantic and sexy, and eerie enough, if never exactly scary. However, none of this really makes up for what is such trite material.Certainly watchable, but hardly inspired.Six out of 10.

morpheusatloppers Okay, this is a second- (maybe third-) rate Italian black-and-white horror flick from the early Sixties which is WELL below the already shaky standards of other similar attempts of that time.And although the heroine is gorgeous, she's no Barbara Steele.But FORGET about the casting, plot, dubbing, acting, direction - and the fact that about eleven minutes of the film's then-typical sauciness is missing (by all accounts permanently - but maybe the footage'll show up some day).Forget all that - and listen to the SCORE. Aldo Piga is no Morricone, but his lavish music, with it's piano - and even Theremin - solos, is a TRIUMPH. (And forget the fact that the music doesn't PARTICULARLY enhance the "action").Between '59 and '68, Piga wrote 36 movie scores - all for Italian low-budgeters - and was just 34 when he wrote THIS one. But being English, this is the only one I've heard. Which is sad.Ennio Morricone, who is mostly only known for his spaghetti-western scores and later Hollywood work, has written some FOUR HUNDRED scores in HIS life-time. And like Piga, most have never been heard outside central Europe.But whilst Piga can only be heard in THIS half-baked hodge-podge, Morricone's early work IS available, thanks to fans of Edda Dell'Orso, the 3-octave session vocalist who appears on most of his work from '64 to '75, and whose following still BUYS it.If you want to hear some of Morricone's early work, go to You-Tube and punch in "ennio morricone edda dell' orso" and you can hear about 40 tracks of the greatest music of this type you will ever hear.But alas, of Aldo Piga, there is NOTHING. So check out THIS movie - and any others you can find featuring his 36 scores (they're listed in IMDb). They don't WRITE stuff like this any more.

goblinhairedguy Here's a "full-blooded", old-fashioned (some might say out-dated), baroque Italian vampire opus which deserves a better reputation than it's achieved. Although Hammer Studios merits credit for re-popularizing the moribund Gothic horror genre in the early 60s, the contemporaneous Latin (Italian, Spanish and Mexican) efforts usually evoke a more authentically Romantic and decadent atmosphere. This one features overwhelmingly ornate sets; voluptuous ingenues with inviting dark eyes and heaving bosoms; high-collared, flouncy-vested Don Juans; absurdly stilted dialogue; and a lush, intrusive score full of piano glissandos, piercing oboes, and even a theremin during the vampire seductions. The deliberate pacing serves to intensify the well-timed shocks, there are some clever camera set-ups, and fine shadowy photography (particularly during the dungeon-set climax). Fans of fast-paced, violent, revisionist horror will think it a dinosaur, but connoisseurs should find it greatly satisfying.

preppy-3 A VERY badly dubbed Italian vampire film from 1962. A young couple, Louise and Wolfgang (!!) in the 16th century (I believe) are menaced by a vampire.Nice black and white photography and a beautiful score can't save a very dull horror film with lousy dialogue, atrocious dubbing (I know I'm mentioning it a third time but it IS that bad!) and poor acting. More laughs than anything else. I was especially amused that the victims of the vampire have no marks on their necks! And some of the dialogue had me laughing out loud. However, both Wolfgang and Louise are VERY attractive and Louise wears incredibly low-cut dresses. Still, that's no reason to see this film.Let's put it this way---this is a vampire film with a G rating! What does that tell you? Avoid--unless you have insomnia.