Jerry Lewis was a major
box office draw in the 1950s and 1960s, and as a «total filmmaker» has a significant profile in film studies, as Chris Fujiwara's book and Murray Pomerance's edited collection show.26 Brooks has his champions in
popular film criticism, Kehr chief among them.
She really wanted to make a Western, but since that wasn't exactly a
box office draw, she and co-writer Eric Red opted to blend the Western elements with a genre that was
popular at that time; vampires.