By the late ‘60s, the Gothic horror outings made popular by studios like Hammer were ripe for satire, and director Roman Polanski took them down in style with this lavish blend of Euro horror conventions and broad humor. Polanski and his beautiful (and doomed) future wife Sharon Tate star, while Ferdinand Mayne makes a formidable fanged nemesis. The movie set the stage for Polanski to make his horror masterpiece, Rosemary’s Baby, the following year.