A legendary horror actor, MacGregor, has announced his retirement from scary movies — all he wants to do from now on is ‘romances’. Two screenwriters are ordered by their boss to visit the famous thespian and try to make him reconsider. But once the bumbling scribes, along with two mysterious ladies they pick up along the way, get to the actor’s home, an imposing castle, they start to suspect that during all the time when he played vampires on screen, perhaps he didn’t pretend that much.
This is a farcical, very French horror-comedy that is neither scary nor funny. The only reason to see it is Peter Cushing as the actor MacGregor — a character loosely but obviously based on Cushing himself. Cushing had a reputation all throughout his career as the ultimate class act — no matter the quality of the material, he always showed up and gave it his all, and this is certainly proof. Not once do you get the impression that he’s somehow above the production, even though he clearly is. Dedication to the art, yes, but also the craft. It’s a beautiful thing to behold.
Some of the set design and the very 1974 costumes are also fun. There’s a lot of red herrings, scantily clad women, mute henchmen, people ending up in the wrong beds — you get the picture. Dr. Runtime approved (89 mins).
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