I only saw small parts of these but would like to see more.
When I was a kid I saw a preview on TBS for a vampire movie. The small part I saw was of a funeral. A woodin coffin is being lowered into the grave when a wood spear or stake lands in the lid of the coffin. Everyone runs away. I cannot remember the title. It looked like a Mexican or Italian film.
Then there is a clip in the British clip movie To See Such Fun where Lionel Jeffries is trying to teach an attractive woman (his wife I guess) how to driver. Seeing that this is a 50s or 60s movie, she is a losey driver. At one point the woman nearly hits a man walking across the street and says "I almost hit him." Jeffries replies, "Don't worry you can hit him and kill him on the way back around." She ends up driving into the back of a moving van.
It is a shame To See Such Fun has no identification for people to know what the films are or the actors. Someone needs to put it on DVD with chyron crawls at the bottom. I've only recently learned who some of the people are thanks to a site called The Picture Show (it has great Hammer info too).
I watched To See Such Fun again and noticed the lady in the clip is refered to by the annoying person singing the credits as Jean Kent. Serching IMDB I found only one film featuring Jean kent and Lionel Jeffries. It is a 1959 film, Please Turn Over , that pokes fun at the mania over the book, Peyton Place . Jean Kent's daughter has written a tell-all novel about her parents and neighbors. Lionel Jeffries IS NOT playing Jean Kent's husband. I guess he is her driving instructor. This is a photo of the two together. She looks younger and prettier in the film clips. On the other hand Lionel Jeffries was about 35 (my age) when he made this. He looks like he is in his mid 50's.
Please Turn Over lobby card (http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/20897.1020.A.jpg/)
The first thing you describe here is almost certainly Hammer's Kiss of Evil, released in America as Kiss of The Vampire.
You're thinking it's Mexican because of the period costumes & formal attire of the mourners.
Andrew Keir asks for the holy water from the priest & sprinkles & then gestures for the shovel from the gravedigger. The gravedigger acquiesces because the priest has already given over the holy water, so what harm could it do? Keir takes the shovel & drives it into & through the lid of the coffin, effectively staking the vampire/his daughter within.
In the American version, nothing much happens after that. In the British version, huge grouts of blood slursh out of the top of the coffin & the credits play over a view of the body of his daughter within the coffin, growing her fangs e'en though destroyed.
A beautiful family film.
peter johnson/denny crane
Kiss Of The Vampire.....sounds like a good one. I might just have to search it out on DVD.