He was a huge fan of Universal and Hammer,which becomes obvious the more control he gets.

Well this is cool. I just ran this through an image search and the house they used was 30A Acacia Road, St Johns Wood, London NW8

I'm trying not to dwell on Naschy playing some kind of spiritual guru as an Indian. He doesn't appear to be doing the accent, thankfully.

They've gone to great lengths to put up English signs (for a stop with a Welsh name) but surely that's a Spanish station, train and car?!
Also - actual night filming!!

Okay... I don't know a thing about this, but entirely coincidentally there's a killer dressed as Guy Fawkes. Wow!

Don't know if Paul Naschy a year making films in London or if he kept popping back, but this is the third of his early 70s films I've seen partly shot there. Establishing shots of Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus - cut to a house out in Richmond or somewhere. Just needs a caption: "London-ish".

Alien was about a bunch of truckers. Aliens was about grunt soldiers. Romulus was about poor kids with hope. Basically working-class folks in space. There's something about Alien Earth - and Prometheus, now I come to think of it - that's just boringly middle-class and elitist.

Yeah... I counted Daughters of Darkness twice, but left off Weapons (2025) and Dr Jekyll versus the Wolf Man (1971).

SHOCKtober (6)
Episodes of Dramarama: The Keeper; Snap; Death Angel; War Games with Caroline.

Ep of Love Death + Robots: Close Encounters of the Mini Kind

Short film: Sweet Revenge (2025)

SHOCKtober (5)
The Return of the Vampire (1943)
Exorcismo (1975)
The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion (1970)
Mad Monster Party? (1967)
Edward Scissorhands (1990 - the only one I'd seen before)

SHOCKtober (4)
Count Dracula's Great Love (1973)
The Vampires' Night Orgy (1973)
The Black Cat (1934)
Devil Times Five (1974)
Billy the Kid versus Dracula (1966)
Sinners (2025)
Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
Scanners (1981)
The Brute Man (1946)
El Retorno de Walpurgis (1973)

SHOCKtober (3)
Fury of the Wolfman (1972)
The Damned (1962)
Lisa and the Devil (1973)
Saint Maud (2020)
Sleepaway Camp (1983)
Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
Wolf Man (2025)
Night Monster (1942)
The Face at the Window (1939)
The Man in Black (1950)

SHOCKtober (2)
Blood and Black Lace (1964)
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973)
Annabelle (2014)
Man Made Monster (1941)
Wolves at the Door (2017)
Flesh and Blood Show (1972)
Mark of the Vampire (1934)
The Mad Ghoul (1943)
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
The Devils (1971)

It's good that they've dodged the Nosferatu trap - Bram Stoker's Dracula was still in copyright until 1982. But Bela Lugosi is a gift here.

This is a bit like the Rathbone Sherlock films, shifting the Victorian vampire to present day, so the film is rooted in the London blitz and other WWII matters. Refs to a characters escaping a concentration camp. And look at this set!