the fearless vampire killers, or pardon me, but your teeth are in my neck (shortened to the fearless vampire killers; originally released in the uk as dance of the vampires) is a 1967 horror-comedy film directed by roman polanski, written by gérard brach and polanski, produced by gene gutowski and starring polanski with his future wife sharon tate, along with jack macgowran and alfie bass, and featuring ferdy mayne.