 Behçet the vampire slayer. 
Above is a rare promo poster for Yaguz Figenli’s thriller Kara Boga, aka Black Bull, 1974, with Behçet Nacar and Yonca Yücel. You might not deduce this from the art, which features a woman sensually eating what looks like a Tostitos chip, but this is actually a vampire movie, a sort of polyester clad take on the legend of Vlad Tepes, aka Vlad the Impaler. Like a lot of Turkish movies from the seventies, this one has numerous flaws: the acting is over the top, the sound effects are bad, the music is distractingly symphonic (except for the percussive slow burners used for the love scenes), and the original celluloid has yellowed, which makes every frame look like it was shot through a slice of lemon. But there’s action aplenty and a lot to laugh at. Wanna see a guy get stabbed in the back but for some reason clutch his stomach before falling over dead? Got ya covered. Wanna see a hunchback whose hump is clearly two day's worth of laundry stuffed under his shirt? Check. Wanna see Vlad Tepes—Vlad the frickin' Impaler—suffer a brutal beatdown from a guy who looks like Mark Spitz? Then look no further. Let's just say this one really bites, but in an entertaining way.
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
1939—Batman Debuts
In Detective Comics #27, DC Comics publishes its second major superhero, Batman, who becomes one of the most popular comic book characters of all time, and then a popular camp television series starring Adam West, and lastly a multi-million dollar movie franchise starring Michael Keaton, then George Clooney, and finally Christian Bale. 1953—Crick and Watson Publish DNA Results
British scientists James D Watson and Francis Crick publish an article detailing their discovery of the existence and structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, in Nature magazine. Their findings answer one of the oldest and most fundamental questions of biology, that of how living things reproduce themselves. 1967—First Space Program Casualty Occurs
Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when, during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere after more than ten successful orbits, the capsule's main parachute fails to deploy properly, and the backup chute becomes entangled in the first. The capsule's descent is slowed, but it still hits the ground at about 90 mph, at which point it bursts into flames. Komarov is the first human to die during a space mission. 1986—Otto Preminger Dies
Austro–Hungarian film director Otto Preminger, who directed such eternal classics as Laura, Anatomy of a Murder, Carmen Jones, The Man with the Golden Arm, and Stalag 17, and for his efforts earned a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, dies in New York City, aged 80, from cancer and Alzheimer's disease. 1998—James Earl Ray Dies
The convicted assassin of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., petty criminal James Earl Ray, dies in prison of hepatitis aged 70, protesting his innocence as he had for decades. Members of the King family who supported Ray's fight to clear his name believed the U.S. Government had been involved in Dr. King's killing, but with Ray's death such questions became moot.
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