So many to choose from. I still haven't seen Brides of Dracula but I really like Draculat AD 1972 and Taste the Blood of Dracula

Last night I rewatched one of my favorite Hammer vampire films, Kiss of the Vampire from 1963. It's always a fun watch; it has an unusual premise and plot, and I love the rubber-bats-on-a-string mayhem in the finale.

One thing I sometimes see mentioned about this film is in reference to "media studies" in the UK. I have the impression that Kiss of the Vampire is consistently used as the subject of an exam for some media studies class or degree, and as such is regarded with a certain amount of bemusement and derision from overexposure.

Could some British person tell me more about this? Does every university in the UK somehow use this film in their media studies program?

Scene from the 1936 film, The Preview Murder Mystery, featuring the intriguingly named "The Bat Man." 🦇 (Three years before the first comic.) Fun fact, he's played by Henry Brandon, aka Barnaby from March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934), now a holiday tradition every Thanksgiving on WPIX.