Today this movie plays like a stark and dark portrait of a sexually frustrated virginal incel who flips his **** because he can't get laid due to his pathetic lack of any social skills.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.

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Actually Anne Rice wrote her first vampire novel, Interview with a Vampire, in 1973 (published in 1976). It's much more likely that she influenced the writers of this movie than anything else.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

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