I also think David Peel is great in BRIDES. But it took a few years to get to that appreciation. When I was a kid, much as we loved the movie, my friends and I groused an awful lot about "that blond vampire....he didn't look like a vampire...he wasn't Dracula...he didn't even look like the other guy" (that other guy would be Christopher Lee, of course) Now, though, these aged eyes can see the terrifically evil, debauched, hyper-aristocratic vampire under the Troy Donahue-do. And it's pretty great stuff.