1.When Count Von Krolock kidnapps Sarah
2.The ending. The expression on Sharon's face was BRILLIANT.
"Go where the wind takes you."-Matthew McGrory
Krolock's speech to the vampire hoard, and his subtle little 'satan' hand gesture.
shareWhen Sharon is in the tub at the castle and clearly doesn't want to be rescued. Polanski urges her to come away with him and she quietly replies, "There's a ball tonight. Did you see my dress?" When he doesn't get the hint she just sneaks away while he's not looking. She's just moved UP in the world, so why blow it all for this dumb kid? Ha ha.
shareThe spanking scene! where Polanski & McGowran look through the keyhole & the big wench is getting spanked. It was unforgivable that scene was way too short!
shareCount Krolock's son hugging Albert in examining his lecture aloud & biting subsequntly into the book of course! :-)))
sharedh-84, named my fav,,love that part,,so i geuss ill say my next fav scene is when while practicing the stake thru the heart routine with the pillow the assistant hits the prof's hand...
shareThe scene about 30 mins in, where Sharon Tate is in the bathtub and the camera pans up to the ceiling - at first it looks like a normal white ceiling, then you see it's a window covered in snow, and a hand wiping the snow anyway and a vampire looking down at her in the bath through the snowy ceiling window. Stunningly photographed and creepy scene!
shareThere's so many of them!
-Opening credits
-Count appearing to Sarah in bathtub
-Professor and Albert chasing the newly born vampire innkeeper
-The first shot of Count's castle
-Professor and Albert trying to get to crypt and later Albert trying to kill the Count
-Count's son chasing Albert
-The group of vampires rising from cemetary
-The dance scene
-Ending, absoltuely chilling
There's no way I'm dying before you do, you morally bankrupt Colonel with a God complex.
I agree with south_tx_wanderer_77 I thought the biting in the little book saving being bitten in the neck was very funny and very surprising and very original, like dh-84 mentioned his fav scene.
I also really enjoyed the silly chase scene right after, where he ends up running along the balcony only to end up bumping into the Drac's son - good (clean?!) fun...
From there on for me the movie took off a little more (I began to like it more) - cos before that, I did not really like the silliness of the "be quite or else we might get caught!" kiddy variations and the pace ( s l o w ) of the routines and slapstick. Everything gets messy. But who cleans it up (movies shouldn't have me make me think that...)?!
I thought some of the mis-en-scene and frames in scenes of this film were just stunningly beautiful >>> WHY IS IT (anyone tell me plz!) that movies from around 1970 just LOOK SO BEAUTIFUL! The colours (the whites and blacks etc) of the snow for example here in this film and the shades and all are just, well... beautiful. Like "The Great Waldo Pepper" (1975, George Roy Hill, with Robert Redford) - same thing good movie with great, great colours. Why?!
I also liked the skiing and travelling in the snow scenes and a lot of the scenes were shot in apparently one take with all the action in one single eh... shot (what is the lingo here). The trail they make is fresh.
Great that the film ends with using the tradition (skill) of wrapping it up (too) fast with a lot of solutions and endings of the very final part of the film. The information is just a little too much ahead for you, the viewer.
And I agree with the last postings, the appearance of Sharon Tates change from adorable into frightening all of a sudden and being terrible and lethal is shocking (and surprising), followed by the moral...
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Count Von Krolock rolling his eyes while describing his son as "a sensitive youth," an obvious reference to his homosexuality. That was effin' priceless!
must be the moment when they're escaping from the vampires, and we have a i believe medium shot of the professor as he walks down the stairs, focused on the direction. Then suddenly he bumps his head into the wall, as the spiraled staircase inexpectedly goes into the other direction. Hilarious!
shareOff the top of my head my favorite scene is when Count Krolok leads them to his library and remarks... "I had a great interest in the natural sciences,...When I was a young man.". There's something about the way Ferdy Mayne delivers that line and acts it out, the wistful tragic regret in his voice and gestures (not to mention the almost mesmerized reactions from Abronsius and Alfred!)that says more about his doomed fate and his contemplation of what he is than all the overwrought drivel of other so called tragic vampire portrayals in later less subtle films especially the newer ones that try to make the vampires sympathetic.
shareHaha... I enjoy that too. Also when the Count is leading them down the hallway to their rooms, and the Professor hits his head on one of the archways.
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After Shagal, the inn-keeper makes a racket by nailing the door shut he then preceeds to tip-toe through the room as if trying not to wake them, while Alfred is standing in the middle of the room watching him.
Alfred laughing into his hat after the professor gets the boiling water poured on him.
"After Shagal, the inn-keeper makes a racket by nailing the door shut he then preceeds to tip-toe through the room as if trying not to wake them, while Alfred is standing in the middle of the room watching him. "
Ha ha yea I love that scene, in fact I love every single scene with Shagal.
Him complaining about the hunchback moving his coffin is easily my favourite though. Even my young Nephews are fans of him and the movie now! :D
When the hunchback kicks Polanski in the ass. I lol every time! (And I just did now!)
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