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Alright, so this film fits in the category “fun bad”. It’s a movie you can still get enjoyment from, even if it’s for all the wrong reasons. For a short summary, in a stagecoach Dracula meets the mother and uncle of a girl named Betty. Betty as they put is “18 and beautiful”. Dracula goes “oh is that so?” and the mom is like “yeah”. Dracula looks at the pics and makes up his mind there to make the girl his wife. Dracula kills a different girl at the stop, and the native Americans notice. Peeved at this, they go attack the stagecoach assuming whoever did it was still in there. Betty’s mother and James Underhill are killed. We see Dracula fly down as a bat, then walk from behind the stagecoach as himself. He ensures they are dead and continues to the town. Billy and Betty talk about getting married or whatever. Dracula enters a “hotel and saloon” and gets a room. He claims to be the uncle and so on and so forth. Bartender tells Billy and they meet for the first time. Obviously he shows everyone the necessary papers and they carry on. Unfortunately for James (Dracula, in case you forgot) he learns that his sister had been killed on the coach they were supposed to travel in together but didn’t. He pretends to feel sorry and claims he cannot stay alone at the hotel, so he gives the room to a family called the Osters (I think that’s how you spell it). Dracula kills little Lisa from the Osters family, and no one other than the family suspects him of it. Billy offers the Osters the Bar-B house as a place of a refuge. They accept. The Osters do everything in their power to protect Betty but she is very stubborn. From here on out, a few goats get their throats slit, Dracula is thwarted by some plant, and other boring stuff happens. Now, I didn’t mention a guy named Thorpe until now because he wasn’t that important UNTIL now. You see after a while, Billy has actually found the Osters excessive warnings about vampires have gotten to him. So he goes to the deputy Sheriff and asks about the wreckage. More specifically if the unidentified man could have actually been Betty’s real uncle. Dracula finds out about this through Thorpe who wanted Billy the Kid gone asap. Dracula kicks him off the ranch which he was now running, I guess. His excuse was until Betty was 21 he was her legal guardian so everyone listened to him. Anyways Thorpe and Billy have a great shootout inside the saloon. While this was happening Dracula bites the neck of Betty while she sleeps and gets the wheels turning when it comes to having her be his wife forever. Billy comes back the night after and the woman who has been working around the house instructs him to take her to the doctor. So he does, but when he gets there Billy taken to jail. Dracula comes back to the house, sees she ain’t there, yells at the guests, and finally retrieves Betty from the doctor. Then he takes her to his cave, which was originally a mine. Meanwhile the doctor goes to the prison and talks to the sheriff about getting Billy out, since she needs him to help Betty. Sheriff won’t budge, so she takes his gun and throws it to Billy. He threatens him, and once free takes off. Heads to the house, sees she and Dracula aren’t there, then goes to the cave. Sheriff and Doc are right behind chasing him down. In the cave Dracula's all like “Bullets don’t work against me!!” and lo and behold they don’t work against him. Now here is the kicker, Billy THROWS THE GUN at Dracula which launches him against the cave wall for some reason. Then takes a knife and stabs him. Killing him off. Betty Wakes up, Dracula disintegrates into a skeleton, and an extra visual of a bat dying is seen. They probably got married after. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, they were supposed to get married and Dracula didn’t like that. That’s the main reason Billy was sent away. So I have two main questions, why was Dracula not harmed by bullets? He was harmed by the gun alone though???? Whatever. Secondly, if he sleeps all day before killing why can he walk around in the daytime no problem at all? It’s almost like William Beaudine knew the movie was bad so instead of waiting to shoot at night just got it over with by shooting during the day. That’s probable I think. How come at the end of the movie there was a bat flying away that fell and died symbolizing Draculas death, if the bat and Dracula are the same how come it died separately? Doesn’t make sense to me. I like how the beginning of the film is super reminiscent of Stagecoach (even has the drunk in the coach like the original). It’s a nice little call back to an earlier film in Carradine’s career. Standing at a short 1 hour and 15 minutes (at least the cut I saw was), I think if you got time to waste and want a few quick laughs at a movie that takes itself seriously, then here. That’s all I have to say about this movie, in 2025 I’m trying to maximize the number of films I see this year. So I expect I’ll be watching a lot of shorter B movies like this one to cap off the day. I also want to add that I find it hilarious that this was the only film Carradine ever regretted making. That says an awful lot don’t you think? 1/5 stars. Who came up with this?
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01/03/25
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With a title like Billy the Kid Versus Dracula, how could your curiosity not be piqued? It's complete nonsense and just as ridiculous as it sounds, one you'll have to suspend not only your disbelief but also your sense of judgment and taste as the combination of elements doesn't make a modicum of sense. The film certainly looks the part of a made-for-TV western, even down to the poorly staged fisticuffs, random gunfights, stock performances and locked-down photography, all made in combination with a cheap horror movie. Ignoring the flagrant continuity errors, visible wires and obvious Carradine doubles, I can at least give some credit to the passable musical score by Raoul Kraushaar and the film's use of colour, but this is simply laughable, thank god it was over just as quickly as it began. Although it was worth the price of admission to see John Carradine smacked across the face with a colt after having 6 rounds emptied into him, that got the biggest laugh out of me but the fact that someone green-lighted this movie is the most horrifying thing.
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03/14/24
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Hear me out~ this film may have more plot holes than there are gaps in a fishnet, but that's what makes it SO GOOD!
If you want to cringe at some ‘60s horror~ check out this movie's cardboard bat, bullet physics, and hilarious, hypnotic stares. Billy the kid vs. Dracula is really, really bad, but it's really, really good because of it!
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
01/13/23
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worth a look to see the gr8 john carridine play dracula
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
01/21/23
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How come the bullets couldn't harm Dracula but throwing the pistol and him knocked him out?
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
01/18/23
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Originally shown as a double bill with "Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter" this equal silly waster/Universal Horror mash-up is slightly better, mostly because you have John Carradine on board as Count Dracula, hamming it up as only her can.
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
01/31/23
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