And there’s never been a more horrific

 And there’s never been a more horrific vampire on film. A country chic theme can feature bouquets and arrangements of sunflowers, wildflowers and baby’s breath tied with silk ribbons—think Little House on the Prairie but with a modern twist.Following the success of The Man They Couldn’t Hang, Karloff returned in 1940 in a similar role in a similar film—even playing a doctor with a similar theory.Karloff was an intelligent, extremely cultured, well-read, kindly, funny English gentleman of the highest order, a man obsessed with cricket, and a man who was (depending on your perspective) either blessed or cursed with a face and voice that never let him stray too far from the genre that made his name one of the most internationally recognized in film. .So Ulmer, having been given the chance of a lifetime, a movie that couldn’t miss, did the obvious thing and made a movie about genocide. They make for rare instances in which the King of Horror plays a sympathetic role and it is the world around him that’s the real monster. Consider a ceremony venue in a quaint country church, complete with white steeple. When Baz and his costume and production designer wife, Catherine Martin, married on the stage of the Sydney Opera House in 1997, legend has it that the celebrant descended by zip wire. But even that’s a tricky business, as no matter how crappy the film around him might have been, he was always so very, very good, even if he wasn’t taking much of it all that seriously. But I carefully listen to once, appears to refer to policy, not house prices. Then the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy gave the studio cold feet. The grand Shariah wedding Islamic rites was held two days ago at the Astoria Regency. 'I hope so!’ swoons the one from Spain.To the edge of the party stands the host.