Blood for Dracula (1974)

- written March 2009

Summary: Count Dracula is on a journey. If he fails to drink a required amount of pure virgin's blood, he’ll die. His assistant suggests that the Count go to Italy, where apparently, families are known to be particularly religious and therefore should be a great place to search for a virgin woman. They do encounter a family with 4 daughters...however he finds out that the girls are not as pure as they pretend they are. Meanwhile the man-servant feels something weird is going on and will get involved with this, and try to stop Dracula from being successful.           Overall: This is a weird film and the fact Andy Warhol’s name is connected gives you a good reason why. Here we have a very fragile and vulnerable Dracula looking for virgins. So he decides to go to Italy. Ummm, didn’t get the memo that they like sex?           Anyway, what makes the movie interesting is the lack of “virgin” qualities of these ladies. They’re topless a lot, enjoy lesbian incestual sex with each other and frankly, the manservant seems to be banging all of them...sometimes within minutes of each other. Frankly, you almost know Dracula won’t succeed and gotta wonder if he’s the only virgin there!           The ending was pure camp! We have the manservant reenacting a Monty Python scene as he tries to chop off all Dracula’s limbs as Dracula tries to escape. You can just imagine the lines now...”That’s just a flesh wound.” Just silliness.           Comparison: Flesh for Frankenstein meets Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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