Director, screenwriter, producer—Boris Szulzinger was a jack-of-all-trades, but he left his mark primarily on genre cinema, which remains underrepresented in our country. He was one of the first students at the Brussels film school INSAS, interned with Jean-Pierre Melville, worked as a reporter in the United States, produced documentaries, helped launch the animation career of cartoonist Picha as co-director and producer, and directed both commercials (for Sabena, Barbie, etc.) and several short films.

His most well-known feature film is Les Tueurs fous, based on a gruesome true crime from the summer of 1971, when two young adults in France spent ten days randomly shooting passersby. However, Szulzinger did not turn the film into a critique of youth delinquency but instead presented a chillingly sober portrait of two amoral individuals who leave a bloody trail through Brussels without remorse. Critics struggled with the film's raw brutality and accused it of lacking moral concern. In hindsight, Les Tueurs fous was ahead of its time, a historical precursor to the serial killer films that would later gain popularity.

His second film is the bizarre Mama Dracula. Professor Van Bloed receives an invitation to attend a blood research conference in a small Transylvanian village, organized by Countess Dracula. The countess, played by Oscar-winner Louise Fletcher, has twin sons who run the fashion store Vamp, a front for luring virgins whose blood is used for the matriarch’s daily bath. Featuring corny jokes, gratuitous nudity, and cartoonish action, the film is pure nonsense—a true guilty pleasure.