Review of Night of the Vampires

"Der Fluch der grünen Augen" or "The Curse of the Green Eyes" (and there are many more German-language and English-language titles this film can be found as) is a West German / Yugoslavian co-production from 1964, so this one is already over 50 years old. The language here is German according to IMDb, but I also found English-language version for everybody who does not want to use subtitles. Decades ago, they already made color films here in Germany, but this one is (like some of the Edgar Wallace films) a black-and-white movie. The director is Ákos Ráthonyi and I see he had a pretty prolific career. Shame on me for not knowing him at all. This film here that runs for slightly under 90 minutes is definitely among his most known works and same can be said about writer Kurt Roecken. The lead actor is Adrian Hoven, certainly well-known to movie buffs in Germany and people may also have heard of Werner Preiss. Huge James Bond fans may recognize John Kitzmiller from "Dr. No". In the title of my review, I already mentioned the Edgar Wallace film series that was also very famous around that time. This movie here is not from said series, but it looks very similar in terms of how the characters interact and how the crime unfolds. There are differences, such as the setting being Germany here and there are real vampires in this movie, which is something you won't get with Wallace, but I still think that this film here will rather appear to fans of the Rialto film series than to lovers of the very old German horror films that also included vampires occasionally (Nosferatu e.g.). Overall, I was not really well-entertained and there were just not enough good moments for a 90-minute film. Very forgettable watch and I give it a thumbs-down.