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Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Vittorio De Sica, Maxime McKendry, Arno Juerging ... see more see more... , Milena Vukotic , Gil Cagne , Stefania Casini , Dominique Darel , Silvia Dionisio , Roman Polanski , Stefano Oppedisano , Maxime de la Falaise

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... read more read more... 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, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Paul Morrissey, Antonio Margheriti

Release Date: November 27, 1974

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  • fb1664868775
    October 29, 2011
    fb1664868775
    Superior to Flesh For Frankenstein, this is a great second film for Paul Morrisey's horror double feature. There are some truly amazing images in this one. Udo Kier is perfect as Dracula.
  • harrycaul
    September 10, 2009
    harrycaul
    With a shortage of 'wirgins' in Romania, Count Dracula travels to Italy in search of good, pure Catholic girls to feast on, installing himself in the dilapidated mansion of an aristocrat with four unmarried daughters, ostensibly as a suitor for one of them. Since two of the daugh... read moreters are slatterns and any blood but that of a virgin makes the count violently ill, the scene is set for some nice comic episodes. Although the acting is generally atrocious, "Blood for Dracula", unlike the terrible "Flesh for Frankenstein", has a number of clever touches which breathe new life into the vampire yarn, for instance the count applying make-up to disguise his sickly pallor. Dominique Darel, Silvia Dionisio and Stefania Casini, as three of the daughters, are very easy on the eye, and Roman Polanski makes a brief appearance in a scene which prefigures one in his own "Bitter Moon". Surprisingly well photographed and scored, too.
  • webalina
    September 10, 2009
    webalina
    More fun from the gang that brought you Flesh for Frankenstein. This time Dracula (our pal Udo Kier), is a little particular about his meals -- he can only have the blood of female (I guess, I didn't see him attacking any young boys) "wirgins". If he drinks the blood of an exper... read moreienced woman, he vomits up the blood (all charmingly detailed in Technicolor) and goes into wild convulsions and spasms. All this gets demonstrated when he travels to Italy to the home of a wealthy man (Vittorio de Sica -- how did they talk HIM into this?!) and his four daughters. Dracula tells the man that he is looking for a wife and heard his daughters were all beautiful and devout Catholics, which would prove that they were pure. Uh, not quite. See, there's this gardener (Joe Dallesandro) who's doing his best to give all the daughters a ride on his ho handle. Dracula tries to make a little time with the daughters too, but keeps getting sick because they keep lying about being pure and he keeps believing them (Fool me once, shame on you, Fool me twice...) What to do, what to do? I won't give anymore away. Let's just say that the film ends on a rather downer note for all involved.

    As usual, the effects are laughable, the acting and script atrocious. There are so many accents heard that it sounds like the United Nations. We can count on Big Joe though, with his New Yawk accent to make this movie more bizarre than it already is. More (boring) sex scenes and fewer disembowelments in this than Frankenstein, but no less ridiculous. Deserves only 1 star at best, but it's one of those "so bad it's good" films, which adds more stars for entertainment bang for the buck.
  • hawkledge
    September 10, 2009
    hawkledge
    Great photography, Udo Kier a pale, anemic villian, Arno Juerging his assistant, marvelously balancing ludicrous dialogue with deadpan earnestness. Tour-de-force performance from Vittorio de Sica as the Marquis Di Fiore with Maxime McKendry as Lady Di Fiore.
  • MovieGuruDude72
    July 10, 2011
    MovieGuruDude72
    Ever since I saw Udo Kier depicted in a gay orgy in Madonna's "book" AKA hardback porno, I've found the man downright disturbing. Then he was Satan's minion in "End of Days" with the Governator. And if that wasn't disturbing enough he portrayed Madam Flambeau, in drag, in The Acv... read moreentures of Pinocchio (yes a live action Pinocchio movie, yikes). That sealed the deal with me. This movie is an unmitigated disaster. There's a very fine line between edgy-disturbing and silly. This falls in the latter category.
  • TransmissionsFromNostromo
    May 1, 2011
    TransmissionsFromNostromo
    This movie can't decide if it wants to be high camp or a serious entry in vampire lore. Udo Kier is perfect as the ailing Dracula who needs "wirgin" blood to survive, but most of the film focuses on the soft-core romping of the two older sisters and the hunky gardener.
  • engrymfilm
    November 15, 2009
    engrymfilm
    Nothing really happens except Joe Dallesandro banging two sisters, Udo Kier getting his arms chopped off with an axe and Joe Dallesandro's brooklyn accent amusingly out of place but still good for entertainment
  • vegasdehaven
    September 10, 2009
    vegasdehaven
    Morrissey's vision, however criticized by today's audience, remains unmatched in the realm of vampiric cinema. I believe this is among the most powerful, astounding & frighteningly enchanting stories of Count Dracula ever told. Udo Kier is beyond fabulous. I am in love with this ... read morefilm.
  • futsin
    September 10, 2009
    futsin
    A bizarre film. I have never seen anything that so reminded me of Portland performance art in my entire life, especially in film. But hey, it worked! Strangely as the film continues, it grows on the viewer. When the scenes hit Takeshi Miike weirdness (lesbian incest three-way?! a... read morerterial spray when killing Drac?!?) it's astounding. A hoot and enjoyable. Also, boobs, which are a plus. :D
  • flynnparadox
    September 10, 2009
    flynnparadox
    Moody, interesting reimagining of the classic story with Kier as a sickly, bizarre Count, Joe Dallesandro as our dashing, deflowering hero and great turns from Sica, McKendry and Jeurging.

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Variety Staff
October 19, 2009
Variety Staff, Variety

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

Jonathan Rosenbaum
October 19, 2009
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

One of the two schlocky horror comedies Paul Morrissey made in Italy in 1974... Blood for Dracula is the sexier and funnier. Full Review

October 19, 2009
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Stylishly directed, atmospheric, funny, and intense enough to please gorehounds--especially at the climax. Full Review

Ben Cobb
October 19, 2009
Ben Cobb, Film4

Outrageous, hilarious and shocking, this is trash art at its very best. Full Review

Rob Nelson
September 1, 2009
Rob Nelson, City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul

Desperate for virgin blood, [Udo] Kier's wan, fussy vampire strategically heads to Catholic Italy, but the food sucks ("They put so much oil here on everything!"). Full Review

Dennis Schwartz
May 26, 2008
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

It's a few bites away from being a delicious spoof on Dracula. Full Review

Rob Gonsalves
January 31, 2008
Rob Gonsalves, eFilmCritic.com

Pretty funny, especially Roman Polanski's cameo, though not nearly as wild as Flesh for Frankenstein -- but then again, few movies are. Full Review

February 9, 2006
Time Out

Often startlingly beautiful to look at. Full Review

Christopher Null
December 6, 2005
Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com

One of the worst and least faithful Dracula intepretations ever made. Full Review

Ken Hanke
November 5, 2002
Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

A horror film and a spoof -- but it's also something more. A strange, lingering sadness hangs over the film in its depiction of the end of an era. Full Review

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