Blood for Dracula

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Julian K @RT43797409 May 22 An innovative classical concept together with individual scenes of striking visual power more than compensate for some wooden acting performances & sometimes clunky dialogue. It is extremely well lit and the make up is excellent. The scene where Dracula wheels himself through corridors - with the camera mounted close in front of him - possibly inspired techniques used in THE SHINING and at least one CURE music video. It's very well edited too. The film deserves high marks for seamlessly blending sex, horror and eroticism. Oh, and the sequences where Dracula vomits up impure blood are very realistic - I speak as someone who once vomited up half of my own blood. Favourite line: "The blood of these whores will kill me." See more Tim M @tgmacman 01/19/2025 As distasteful as a non-virgin to the title character, Blood for Dracula confuses an assortment of tones, and gets nothing but vapid schlock as a result. See more Kate T @ckat9 01/24/2024 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"… See more Jonathan O @RT41230270 08/18/2023 Blood for Dracula is really bloody dark humor vampire film for bisexual fam. See more 06/30/2021 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." See more 04/08/2020 Pure vomit. The devil has many disguises. See more Read all reviews

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