Shot immediately after ANDY WARHOL'S FRANKENSTEIN with much of the same cast and crew, DRACULA is definitely the better of the two. More like a drug addict than a monster, Dracula (Kier) needs "wirgin" blood to survive, and virgins in his native Romania are in short supply. With his assistant, Juerging, and his sister (in a coffin), Dracula travels to Roman Catholic Italy, where virgins should be more prevalent, and winds up at the crumbling estate of a destitute marquis and his four unmarried daughters. Eager to marry one of his daughters off to the rich Romanian count, the
marquis gives Dracula a warm welcome. Unbeknownst to the vampire, however, the two middle da...
Released:
1974
Rated:
R
Length:
90 mins