Blood for Dracula
- Director: Paul Morrissey
- Writer: Pat Hackett; Paul Morrissey
- Producer: Andrew Braunsberg; Andy Warhol
CGiii Comment
Outstanding...for all the wrong reasons.
Warhol, Morrissey, Dallesandro & Udo Kier...names that are not associated with films of quality.
Camp, trash...with some (unintentional) comic moments and, there's a cameo by Polanski...what was he thinking!?!
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Udo Kier is without a doubt the sickliest of vampires in any director's interpretation of the Bram Stoker tale. Count Dracula knows that if he fails to drink a required amount of pure virgin's [pronounced "wirgin's"] blood, it's time to move into a permanent coffin. His assistant (Renfield?) suggests that the Count and he pick up his coffin and take a road trip to Italy, where families are known to be particularly religious, and therefore should be an excellent place to search for a virgin bride. They do, only to encounter a family with not one, but FOUR virgins, ready for marriage. The Count discovers one-by-one that the girls are not as pure as they say they are, meanwhile a handsome servant/Communist begins to observe strange behaviour from the girls who do spend the night with the Count. It's a race for Dracula to discover who's the real virgin, before he either dies from malnourishment or from the wooden stake of the Communist!
Cast & Characters
Joe Dallesandro as Mario Balato, the Servant;
Udo Kier as Count Dracula;
Vittorio De Sica as Il Marchese Di Fiore;
Maxime McKendry as La Marchesa Di Fiore;
Arno Juerging as Anton, the Count's Servant;
Milena Vukotic as Esmeralda;
Dominique Darel as Saphiria;
Stefania Casini as Rubinia;
Silvia Dionisio as Perla;
Inna Alexeievna;
Gil Cagne as Townsman;
Emi Califri; Eleonora Zani;
Giorgio Dolfin; Stefano Oppedisano