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Yes, I know this isn't great art; some jokes are quite cheap, Hrušínský doesn't hold a candle to his grandfather, Iveta Bartošová has about as much to do with acting as I do with being a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church, and the plot is blatantly stolen from Polanski. Nevertheless, I like this film and believe it has a decent entertainment potential. Petr Nárožný and especially Viktor Preiss, who is rarely cast in films, relish their roles, and Luděk Kopřiva is much more acceptable to me in this film than in Troška's rural comedies. Overall impression: 60%. (07/05/2007)

A very good movie - surprisingly good. And I ignored it for so long... Yet this is a horror comedy with all the trappings of a horror film that is funny when it's supposed to be funny, and scary when it wants to be. At the sight of Viktor Preiss and his undead nobility, the heart of every vampire lover must be filled, the trio of Petr Nárožný - Luděk Kopřiva - Petr Pelzer is riding on coffins and doing something indescribable, and even the youngest Rudolf Hrušínský is not completely useless. The only uninteresting character is played quite uninterestingly by Iveta Bartošová, but unfortunately nothing can be done about that.____"And one more thing. One of you is sucking my bandleader dry! I invited him along for big money all the way from Salzburg. He wanted to write so much more, and now he's composing a requiem!" (04/09/2016)

This is by far the best film of the Soukup/Hrušínský III/Bartošová trio. To this day, I'm still not quite sure how this bunch managed to make a tastefully ironic variation on classic gothic vampire horror films and add something extra to it. Prague in the 18th century is captured perfectly, the costumes and sets are top-notch, and the story has its own charm. The youth is complemented by excellent actors of the older generation - the sexy aristocrat Viktor Preiss, the love-tortured Oldřich Vízner, and the bon vivant Petr Nárožný. (29/05/2012)