Blood for Dracula

(France - Italy)

CC-Champion & 1/Ponti/Yanne/Rassa. Director Paul Morrissey; Producer Andrew Braunsberg; Screenplay Paul Morrissey; Camera Luigi Kueveillier; Editor Ted Johnson; Music Claudio Gizzi

Joe Dallesandro
Udo Kier
Vittorio De Sica
Maxime McKendry
Arno Juerging
Milena Vukotic

Dracula has about been Hammered to bits in hi many British incarnations. Now Paul Morrisey takes a turn at the old bloodsucker, made in Italy in English [back-to-back with Flesh for Frankenstein] with a mixture of nationalities acting in it.

Morrisey long showed that his films, although more implicit in sex, drugs and characterizations, were really Hollywood films at the core.

Udo Kier is a youngish Dracula, in the 1930s. It seems he will die unless he gets virgin blood. So he has to leave his Transylvanian lair to go to Italy for that, since a Catholic country should have some.

Accepted by a supposedly rich family, who have four pretty daughters, Dracula gets his come-uppance.

(Color) Widescreen. Available on VHS. Extract of a review from 1974. Running time: 90 MIN.

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