10 Best ‘I’m Dead And I Know It’ Moments In Vampire Horror Movies

This 1974 offering sees Count Dracula revive, you guessed it, seven golden-masked vampires. A university professor, Van Helsing, is thus hired to take them out.

A battle breaks out between Van Helsing’s travelling party, consisting of him, his son, his student Hsi Ching, seven kung-fu specialists (who are also his siblings) and the wealthy benefactor paying for their crusade, Vanessa.

During the battle, most of the party are killed and Vanessa is bitten. Ching sees this and runs toward her, being momentarily fooled by her sweet smile before she takes a big bite out of his neck. Behind her (whilst she is still firmly attached to his neck), he sees a convenient sharp stake.

Steeling himself with resolve, he pushes her back onto the stake and sees the bite marks on her neck disappear - motivating him to push her further down onto the object, and himself too. As blood pours from his mouth, he slumps dead on her shoulder.

Honestly it’s not the most spectacular death out there but what makes it so funny is the fact that, in a film so heavily based in martial arts and quick-thinking battle tactics, Ching sees the only option for killing Vanessa as being to slowly and clumsily impale them both on a stake. There has always got to be a pity entry and this is it.