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Blood for Dracula

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Deathly ill Count Dracula (Udo Kier) and his slimy underling, Anton (Arno Juerging), travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore (Vittorio De Sica), who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario (Joe Dallesandro), who's suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.
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Variety Staff Variety Morrisey long showed that his films, although more implicit in sex, drugs and characterizations, were really Hollywood films at the core. Oct 19, 2009 Full Review Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader One of the two schlocky horror comedies Paul Morrissey made in Italy in 1974... Blood for Dracula is the sexier and funnier. Oct 19, 2009 Full Review Time Out Often startlingly beautiful to look at. Feb 9, 2006 Full Review Gary Jane Hoisington Gay Community News (Boston) Blood for Dracula is a dazzling display of obsessive cinematic structure. Sep 21, 2022 Full Review Jennie Kermode Eye for Film The film has that trademark combination of high artistic ambition and crude pornographic content, sometimes charming or amusing, sometimes repellent. Rated: 2/5 Nov 4, 2021 Full Review Jacoba Atlas Los Angeles Free Press Not quite as much fun as Frankenstein, but wonderful to look at, with some great jokes - including the myriad of accents displayed by members of the cast. However, as fun as it is at times, it can't compare with Bela Lugosi. Dec 11, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Kate T This is a soft-porn, satirical farce of Dracula horror as well as of society norms and expectations, especially of sexual ones. Dracula getting sick from drinking non virgin blood was over the top humor and it was this type of humor that kept me watching however I didn't feel it was enough to finally bore me to not have to watch the ending. I chuckled there and there but never had a good laugh. Those who love watching naked bodies romp with bosoms and pubic hair no matter what, will probably enjoy this enough to watch to the end. I got tired of it but did watch most or 75% at least. It's very unique in the presentation of Dracula from the beginning so you know they're going for spoof. He's a vegetarian and travels by wheelchair… pretty clever actually. Polanski has a small on camera role and I bet he had a lot of influence on the story and filming. Worth looking at if you're in the mood for 70s camp and naked bodies "doing what they do"… Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/24/24 Full Review Jonathan O Blood for Dracula is really bloody dark humor vampire film for bisexual fam. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/18/23 Full Review sean s The color, sets and photography are great in this movie. The actors for the most part are beautiful in some old, classical painting way. The acting is rough and somewhat abrupt and shallow, which adds humor to the whole deal. If you take it from an offbeat humor aspect, the movie works very well. The movie has cheap porno aspects, social commentary that is supposed to be funny I would guess and some other stuff that makes it worth watching. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member I've had the Criterion version of this movie on my shelf for a while, so when Severin re-released this film for their summer sale, I decided that it was the vampire movie that would close out my first ever Junesploitation. Also known as Blood for Dracula, this was written and directed by Paul Morrissey, despite the fact that some prints had director Antonio Margheriti listed. A day after the principal shooting for Flesh for Frankenstein ended, Morrissey had Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro and Arno Juerging get shorter hair cut and start filming. You can spot several directors in this film, like Vittorio De Sica (Bicycle Thieves) and Roman Polanski. The Dracula in this film (Udo Keir) is not the romantic master of women. Instead, he's sick for most of the film, whining about his lot in life and the fact that there just aren't many virgin women left. His familiar, Anton (Arno Juerging), has brought him to Italy in the hopes that a more religious country will have more virgins, as they are the only food that vampires can eat outside of a vegetarian diet. Il Marchese di Fiore (de Sica) believes that one of his four daughters would be perfect to marry Dracula, but he doesn't realize that two of them, Saphiria (Dominique Darel) and Rubinia (Stefania Casini, Suspiria), have been deflowered by sthe Marxist handyman Mario (Dallesandro). Dracula soon learns that they are not pure by drinking their blood. While he is weakened, he is able to make them into his slaves. Dracula does succeed in drinking. the virginal plasma of the plain eldest daughter Esmerelda (Milena Vukotic) but not the youngest, Perla (Silvia Dionisio, Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man). hat's because Mario assaults her to destroy her virginity, which is somehow trying to be protective. Throughout this film, the noble traditions of the past are undone by the common man, much less the modern man. You can ascribe artifice to that or just realize that Dallesandro was not doing an accent, no matter what, and you got what you got. Which is kind of like how this movie has Andy Warhol's name on it, leading people to wonder what he had to do with the making of it. He answered, "I go to the parties." Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Pure vomit. The devil has many disguises. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review delysid d this is the funniest and most ridiculous dracula ever seen Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/21/17 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Deathly ill Count Dracula (Udo Kier) and his slimy underling, Anton (Arno Juerging), travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore (Vittorio De Sica), who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario (Joe Dallesandro), who's suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.
Director
Paul Morrissey
Producer
Andrew Braunsberg, Carlo Ponti, Andy Warhol, Jean Yanne
Screenwriter
Paul Morrissey
Production Co
Compagnia Cinematografica Champion
Rating
R
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 16, 2021
Runtime
1h 33m
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