9 — Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)

Dracula: Dead and Loving It is Brooks’ most recent film, and brought together two of the most essential faces of parody films — to play Dracula, Brooks enlisted Leslie Nielsen, star of Zucker-Abrams-Zucker’s beloved Airplane! and Naked Gun films. The pairing of Brooks and Nielsen alone makes this worth watching.

Do the two ham it up? Indeed, those fangs chew some scenery. We aren’t quite loving it, but there are glimmers of good in the movie.

Also, this is as good a place as any to note that we’re only ranking the movies Brooks directed, not 1983’s To Be Or Not to Be, which he produced and starred in with the love of his life, Anne Bancroft.