Saturday The 14th (1981)

A husband (Richard Benjamin) and his wife (Paula Prentiss) inherit an Uncle's old house which is in a state of disarray. But the house's library contains an ancient book that is much desired by a pair of vampires (Jeffrey Tambor, Nancy Lee Andrews) among others. Directed by Howard R. Cohen, this is a painfully unfunny spoof of horror movies. Almost nothing in it works. You can't ask for better comic actors than Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss but when you have material this anemic, they're not able to rescue it. The director (and/or his editor) has no comedic sensibility. Occasionally, there's a glimmer of wit as in the parody of the bird attack on Tippi Hedren from THE BIRDS, only this time it's Paula Prentiss and bats. But more typical is a lame JAWS sight gag that the director repeats several times when it wasn't funny the first time. Only Severn Darden as a vampire hunter seems to know what he's doing. Inexplicably, there was actually a sequel seven years later! With Rosemary DeCamp, Kari Michaelsen and Kevin Brando.