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      Nocturna

      R Released Jun 1, 1979 1h 25m Comedy List
      Reviews 40% Audience Score 50+ Ratings Dracula has a fit when his granddaughter turns the Transylvania homestead into a disco and falls in love with a musician. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member This was the first of two vanity projects for Nai Bonet. The second was Hoodlums, two years later, both failed miserably. She was a gorgeous woman, but had absolutely had no acting skills. Nocturna could have been so much better with better writers, but it was still enjoyable to watch just for the cheesy special effects and bad acting. It's really only a 30-minute movie padded by extended scenes of disco music, a long erotic bathing scene, and dancing, but it does include two excellent songs, NighttIme Fantasy by Vicki Sue Robinson and Love is just A Heartbeat Away by Gloria Gaynor, both huge disco classics from that era. If there's one movie that needs a Blu-ray release, it is this movie. I've only been able to see poor-quality old VHS copies on Youtube. In a nutshell, Nocturna (A vampire), the granddaughter of Count Dracula falls in love with a guitar player in a band performing in Dracula's castle, where she lives. The music transforms her into a human, so she falls in love with him and she follows him to New York City where she again dances to try and become human and leave the vampire life behind. In New York, she meets up with Jugulia Vein played by Yvonne De Carlo who helps her with her plan to become human. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member In the begining of the movie Nocturna says that she can not dance. This point is then proven countles times by endless dancing scenes where Nocturna twirls around on the dancefloor driving everyone else away. Between these scenes there is some bad acting, cool animated bats and something that the film makers probably called "a plot". Partly entertaining, partly dull, but still hell of lot better than Saturday Night Fever! Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member follow the Dracula Mania and make another one. Yvonne De Carlo is good though. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Dracula has a fit when his granddaughter turns the Transylvania homestead into a disco and falls in love with a musician.
      Director
      Harry Tampa
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jun 1, 1979, Original
      Runtime
      1h 25m