The Alphabet Project: F is for...

The Fearless Vampire Killers Or Pardon Me But Your Teeth Are In My Neck (1967)

The old bat researcher, professor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) and his assistant, Alfred (Roman Polanski), go to a remote Transylvanian village looking for vampires. Alfred falls in love with the inn-keeper's young daughter Sarah (Sharon Tate). However, she has been spotted by the mysterious Count Krolock who lives in a dark and creepy castle outside the village and taken to his castle. The professor and Alfred follow..hilarity ensues.

Trivia: Producer Martin Ransohoff discovered Sharon Tate on the set of "The Beverly Hillbillies" (1962), and insisted that director Roman Polanski use her instead of Jill St. John as Polanski had planned. Amongst the ancestral portraits in the castle is a depiction of an ugly old woman inspired by a sketch of Leonardo da Vinci and since the 18th century frequently connected with Margarete Maultasch, countess of Tyrol (1318-1369). The portrait on the wall in Alfred's bedroom in Count von Krolok's castle is of Richard III, king of England from 1483 to 1485.

Wow, this was a pretty weird movie. It had a B movie feel to it. The professor was funny in a absent minded professor sort of way. Polanski was pretty funny as the inept assistant and Sharon Tate was very beautiful with red hair. Well, you might have already figured out my clue about the link to the grisly crime in this movie. Roman Polanski eventually married Sharon Tate and two years later on the night of August 8th, 1969, Sharon and four other poeple were brutally murdered in her Hollywood home, Sharon was eight months pregnant at the time. The next night, two other poeple were killed. The murders became known as the Tate-LaBianca murders but when one of the killers confessed in prison, the crime became known as the Manson Family Murders after Charles Manson, the leader of the "family." Gee, that was a downer.

Okay, well, next up is "G", here are the guesses for "F":

Friday the 13th - Many years after two summer camp councilers are killed at Camp Crystal Lake, the owner decides to reopen, which sparks a series of grisly murders. (great, The Manson Family Murders aren't enough?)

Ferris Bueller's Day Off - A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite of what the principal thinks of that.

Freddy Got Fingered - An unemployed cartoonist moves back in with his parents and younger brother Freddy. When his parents demand he leave, he begins to spread rumors that his father is sexually abusing Freddy. (I am NOT a Tom Green fan, sorry)

The Fifth Element - In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr Zorg at bay.

A Fist Full Of Dollars - (Per Un Pugno Di Dollari) A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.

Flubber - An absent-minded professor discovers "flubber," a rubber-like super-bouncy substance.

Fright Night - When a teenager learns that his next door neighbour is a vampire, no one will believe him.

Fantastic Voyage - A diplomat is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.

Field Of Dreams - An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the Chicago Black Sox come.

Fallen - Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style

Face/Off - A revolutionary medical technique allows an undercover agent to take the physical appearance of a major criminal and infiltrate his organization.

Fargo - Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of pregnant Marge Gunderson.

Finding Neverland - Starring Kate Winslet and some guy, The story of J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.

The 40 Year Old Virgin - Goaded by his buddies, a nerdy guy who's never "done the deed" only finds the pressure mounting when he meets a single mother.

Frequency - An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his father's life, but then must fix the consequences.

Flatliners - Medical students bring themselves near death; their experiment begins to go awry.

Flightplan - A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.

From Here To Eternity - In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

Fatal Attraction - A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas - An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychadelic escapades. Another one of those movies with that guy from Finding Neverland

A Few Good Men - Neo military lawyer Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder; they contend they were acting under orders.