Beyond the black mouth of the cursed cave lurked the unfleshed...
Cave of the Living Dead is a 1964 German/Yugoslav horror film directed by Ákos Ráthonyi.
Frank Dorin (Adrian Hoven) is an Interpol inspector who's supposed to be on vacation. However, he's sent to a German village to investigate a series of mysterious deaths instead. Many young women have dropped dead, seemingly of heart failure. As Dorin investigates, he uncovers evidence that vampires are about.
This film contains examples of:
- Agent Scully: The town coroner insists that there are no vampires, and the entire thing is superstition. Naturally, he's wrong.
- Big Bad: Professor von Aldersberg, a vampire stalking a village.
- Black Cloak: The vampire wears one when he goes hunting.
- Darkness Equals Death: Every time the vampire attacks, the power in the village goes out. It's never explained why.
- I Work Alone: Dorin specifically goes to the village as a tourist because he hates working with other inspectors.
- My Car Hates Me: Dorin can't get his blood sample to the city because his car's battery is dead. However, this is a good thing because it enables him to stop Aldersberg from claiming an eighth victim.
- Our Vampires Are Different: These are classical European vampires, except their victims can be prevented from turning by sprinkling wolfsbane on the bite and burst into flames upon death.
- The Place
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Legend has it that some vampires were trapped in a grotto hundreds of years ago, only able to come out for 59 minutes every night. Turns out the legend is false, and the vamp is perfectly active but a recluse.
- A Threesome Is Hot: Dorin excitedly tells Aldersberg's butler about a wet dream he had about a three-way.
- Title of the Dead
