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Blood of Dracula
A crazed teacher at a respectable girls' school draws power from a medallion she has obtained from the Carpathian Mountains, and uses it to experiment telepathically on the school's newest young pupil.
Release : | 1957 |
Rating : | 4.6 |
Studio : | Carmel Productions, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Susan Harrison Malcolm Atterbury Barbara Wilson Richard Devon Paul Maxwell |
Genre : | Horror |
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All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.
"Blood of Dracula" isn't the best American International Pictures films but is OK. The formula that produced cult hits as "I was a Teenage Werewolf", "I was a Teenage Frankenstein" and "How to make a Monster" is the same: take a troubled youth, add some horror elements and serve it up at the Drive-In. A girl is brought to a boarding school and falls under the spell of crazed science instructor. She becomes a Vampire when summoned. The attacks aren't that frightening and the acting only passable.These movies are fun to watch though and the low-budget does add to the cheesy factor. This is a good movie to catch once if you're a Vampire movie fan like myself. The three movies I mentioned earlier were far superior in every way and not to be missed by horror movie fans.
Blood of Dracula (1957) ** 1/2 (out of 4) A troubled teen (Sandra Harrison) goes to a boarding school where a teacher starts doing experiments on her. The teacher puts Nancy under hypnosis and soon murders begin to occur. Too bad this film wasn't called I Was a Teenage Vampire to fit in with the others but other than that this movie isn't too bad. This film tries to fill the need of teen juvenile films as well as the horror genre and in that respect the film manages to be entertaining. The look of the vampire is quite good and there's some funny dialogue throughout the movie. The film's pacing is a tad bit all over the place and this here keeps it from being better. The movie certainly doesn't try to be anything special but it does manage to be an effective drive-in flick.
Nancy (Sandra Harrison) is an angry young girl who's sent, against her will, to a private boarding school. There she falls under the eye of the science teacher (Louise Lewis) who needs her anger to show how anger can control the world, not weapons. (No, I don't understand it either) She hypnotizes Nancy and, somehow, can turn her into a vampire who attacks and kills...As you can see this is pretty silly stuff. The plot makes no sense with plot holes left and right. The acting is OK (Lewis come off best) and, like other AIP pictures, the film comes to a screeching halt when some guy named Tab (Jerry Blaine) sings some dumb song called "Puppy Love". The "dancing" in this one has to be seen to be believed. The only somewhat interesting thing in this is an(implied) lesbian link between Harrison and Lewis.This gets a 2 only because of the makeup job done on Harrison when she becomes a vampire. Pointed ears and eyes, hysterically long fangs and claws and a white streak running through her hair! Supposedly Harrison begged producer Herman Cohen for this role--he said, after she got it, she acted like Joan Crawford! Also, many years later, this was shown at the NY Museum of Modern Art--Harrison actually called them and asked them to please not show it. That should tell you something. B-movie fans and kids might like this but others beware!
Blood Of Dracula is a typical of the drive-ins that Americain International came out with in the 1950's, aimed at teenagers. I quite liked this one.After her mum dies and dad remarries, a girl is sent to a boarding school where she is hypnotised by one of her teachers as part of an ongoing experiment connected to the supernatural. This turns her into a fanged vampire and she kills several people. The police are baffled by these murders and when she refuses to look at her teacher at the end, tragedy strikes... Includes somebody singing Puppy Love.Blood of Dracula has some creepy music and creepy locations as well, especially the night scenes. The vampire make-up looks pretty good for a low budget movie.The cast is mostly made up of unknowns, lead by Sandra Harrison, her only movie according to IMDb.Blood Of Dracula is a must for B-movie followers out there.Rating: 3 stars out of 5.