Both Lee and Cushing would go on to play these roles for decades.' Here's Christopher Lee as the Count in Freddie Francis's Dracula Has Risen From the Grave Dracula also bought Lee's Dracula a worthy foe in Peter Cushing's driven Van Helsing. Photograph: The Kobal Collection / Columbia Photograph: The Kobal Collection / Columbia Dracula Has Risen From The Grave (1968): 'Hammer's first Technicolour horror film introduced the world to a new, dynamic, sexy and powerful Count Dracula: Christopher Lee. When roasting one of Sinbad's crew on a spit, he licks his lips in anticipation of his meal! One of the screen's greatest fantasy creations' Photograph: Universal / The Kobal Collection Photograph: Universal / The Kobal Collection The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958): 'One of the awe-inspiring Cyclops that live on the island of Colossa in the first of Ray Harryhausen's Sinbad trilogy. Pierce ended up using his first Werewolf of London design on Lon Charney Jr in The Wolf Man' Pierce and Hull settled on the face pictured here in a highly retouched publicity photo from the original release.

This is just a really, really funny film.Werewolf of London (1935): 'Henry Hull refused to wear the makeup Jack Pierce designed for the werewolf, as he felt it hid too much of his face. Some beautiful bits of background business too - the hippie in the background of the 2001 scene, just ignoring the portentous foreground action while eating his frozen custard is worth a look.

Set-pieces - like the 2001 parody, the bar scene where the monster 'Schlock' observes a Jose Feliciano-like blind musician playing a piano boogie and ends up joining in, and a very funny scene where the allegedly fearful Schlock goes into a cinema to see a horror movie, and is terrified - all come off perfectly. What sets this one apart is its sustained comic atmosphere, which is goofy, laconic and giddy. (Others like this were sketch comedy flicks like Landis's 'Kentucky Fried Movie' plus the Mel Brooks and Woody Allen movies of around the same time). 'Schlock' falls in neatly with other 'progressive' US comedy movies of the early 70s, which kicked around genre conventions and added a new frankness in language and toilet humour to US film comedy vocabulary. John Landis's first movie may be as good as anything he made.

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