Dracula cerca sangue di vergine... e morì di sete!!! (1974)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Paul Morrissey

Writer:

Paul Morrissey (writer)

Release Date:

27 November 1974 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

He couldn't live without a virgin's blood..... ...So a virgin had to die! [UK]

Plot:

Udo Kier is without a doubt the sickliest of vampires in any director's interpretation of the Bram Stoker tale...

Plot Keywords:

Virgin | Dracula | Blood | Vampire | Vomit Blood

Cast

Joe Dallesandro	...	Mario Balato, the Servant
Udo Kier	...	Count Dracula
Vittorio De Sica	...	Il Marchese Di Fiore
Maxime McKendry	...	La Marchesa Di Fiore
Arno Juerging	...	Anton, the Count's Servant
Milena Vukotic	...	Esmeralda
Dominique Darel	...	Saphiria
Stefania Casini	...	Rubinia
Silvia Dionisio	...	Perla
Inna Alexeievna
Gil Cagne	...	Townsman (as Gil Cagnie)
Emi Califri
Eleonora Zani

Also Known As:

Andy Warhol's Dracula (USA)
Andy Warhol's Young Dracula
Blood for Dracula (UK)
Dracula
Dracula cerca sangue di vergine (Italy) (video title)
Dracula vuole vivere: cerca sangue di vergine! (Italy)
Du sang pour Dracula (France)
Young Dracula

MPAA:

Rated R for horror violence and sensuality.(1992 cut version)

Runtime:

103 min | Argentina:108 min | USA:106 min

Country:

Italy | France

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-18 | France:-16 | New Zealand:R16 | Italy:VM18 | USA:X | Argentina:18 | Australia:R | Germany:16 (cut) | Germany:18 | Norway:18 (heavily cut) | UK:18 | USA:R (cut version) (1975, 1992) | USA:X (original rating) | West Germany:18 | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

Vojvodina, Serbia

Company:

Compagnia Cinematografica Champion

Trivia:

Because Roman Polanski was shooting Che? (1972) in Italy on a set nearby, he was asked to do a cameo in this film. One can notice he wears the same mustache in both films.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: At the beginning of the film, Count Dracula is shown sitting at a dressing table, looking in the mirror as he applies make-up to his face. A fire is burning in the fireplace behind him. But as the camera angles around toward the mirror to reveal that the Count casts no reflection, the fire in the fireplace freezes completely still for more than a second.

Quotes:

Count Dracula: The blood of these whores is killing me.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Fear in the Dark (1991) (TV)

Good...for laughs

Count Dracula (Udo Kier) can only drink the blood of virgins or he becomes violently ill. He comes upon a family with a bunch of virgin daughters. He plans to have each of them but the family's horny gardener (Joe Dellesandro) is after them too...for sex!

Silly but you just can't stop watching. Like it's companion piece ("Andy Warhol's Frankenstein") the story is silly with over the top acting and gore. Kiers convulsions after drinking the blood of non-virgins is SO disgusting they're hilarious. And (in the X rated version) there are some fairly explicit sex scenes between Dellesandro and the daughters. And Dracula's death at the end is just great! Silly and stupid but very funny. Try to catch the X rated version.