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Blood for Dracula (1973)
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The second of two horror films shot in a single production term and bearing the name of pop-art icon
Andy Warhol
(whose participation pretty much ended with the use of his name), this film is slightly superior to its higher-profile predecessor, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein. Direction is credited to Warhol factory filmmaker
Paul Morrissey
, though there still exists a very vocal camp who insist that the real credit should go to Italian director
Antonio Margheriti
. Euro-horror leading man
Udo Kier
assays the title role, playing the count as a pale, anemic-looking blood junkie with an overwrought accent. Finding the supply of "weer-gin" blood diminishing rapidly in Romania, Dracula is forced to seek a fix in a predominantly Catholic Italian province, where he is certain a few virgins still exist. He travels with his assistant (Arno Juerging) and his coffin-sealed sister to the decrepit, crumbling mansion of the financially-strapped Marquis DiFore (a tour-de-force performance from
Bicycle Thief
director
Vittorio De Sica
) who welcomes the affluent Count with open arms, hoping to marry off any one of his four daughters. Dracula clearly has other intentions for the girls... but his plans are rudely thwarted by beefy, socialist handyman Mario (
Joe Dallesandro
), who has been dutifully divesting the young maidens of their -- ahem -- virtue, thus tainting their blood and making it unsafe for vampiric consumption. Very unsafe, it turns out -- as we are treated to protracted scenes of the death-pale Count vomiting up gallons of blood. Rated "X" at the time of its release (and subsequently re-rated "R" ten years later), this outrageous catalogue of depravity features wildly campy performances, inane dialogue and an outrageous climax. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
Cast
Joe Dallesandro
Mario
Arno Juerging
Anton, Count's assistant
Udo Kier
Dracula
Maxime McKendry
Lady Difiore
Milena Vukotic
Esmeralda
Vittorio De Sica
Lord Difiore
Production Crew
Gianni Giovagnoni
Art Director
Luigi Kueveillier
Cinematographer
Luigi Kuveiller
Cinematographer
Carlo Gizzi
Composer (Music Score)
Claudio Gizzi
Composer (Music Score)
Paul Morrissey
Director
Franca Silvi
Editor
Jed Johnson
Editor
Ted Johnson
Editor
Andrew Braunsberg
Producer
Andy Warhol
Producer
Carlo Ponti
Producer
Jean Yanne
Producer
Jean-Pierre Rassam
Producer
Enrico Job
Production Designer
Paul Morrissey
Screenwriter
Carlo Rambaldi
Special Effects
Year: 1973
Runtime: 90
Country: France
MPAA Rating:
Category: Feature
Genre
Horror
Color type
Eastmancolor
Produced by
Carlo Ponti Productions
CFDC
Champion Compagnia Cinematografica
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