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

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Paul Morrissey

Writer:

Paul Morrissey (writer)
(more)

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
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Giorgio Dolfin	...	(uncredited)
Stefano Oppedisano	...	(uncredited)
Roman Polanski	...	Man in Tavern (uncredited)

Directed by
Paul Morrissey

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Pat Hackett		uncredited
Paul Morrissey		writer
Bram Stoker		character (uncredited)

Produced by
Andrew Braunsberg	....	producer
Andy Warhol	....	producer
Jean Yanne	....	producer

Original Music by
Claudio Gizzi

Cinematography by
Luigi Kuveiller

Film Editing by
Jed Johnson		(credited in US print)
Franca Silvi

Production Design by
Enrico Job

Art Direction by
Gianni Giovagnoni

Makeup Department
Mario Di Salvio	....	makeup artist
Paolo Franceschi	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Mara Blasetti	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Paolo Pietrangeli	....	assistant director
Antonio Margheriti	....	assistant director (uncredited)
Antonio Margheriti	....	second unit director (uncredited)

Sound Department
Fausto Ancillai	....	dubbing mixer
Roberto Arcangeli	....	special sound effects
Piero Fondi	....	boom operator
Carlo Palmieri	....	sound mixer

Special Effects by
Carlo Rambaldi	....	special effects

Camera and Electrical Department
Paolo Pettini	....	still photographer
Ubaldo Terzano	....	camera operator

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Benito Persico	....	wardrobe supervisor

Editorial Department
Loretta Mattioli	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Maurizio Anticoli	....	accountant
Vasco Mafera	....	production assistant
Silvia Petroni	....	continuity

Production Companies

• Compagnia Cinematografica Champion
• Yanne et Rassam (co-production)
• Andy Warhol Presentation (associate production)

Distributors

• Bryanston Distributing (1974) (USA) (theatrical)
• Filmes-Euro International Films (1975) (Italy) (theatrical)
• ACME Video (West Germany) (VHS)
• Ariel Video (1987) (USA) (VHS)
• Art House (Greece) (VHS)
• Astro Distribution (2003) (Germany) (DVD)
• Astro Video (19??) (West Germany) (VHS)
• Atlas (West Germany) (VHS)
• Best Entertainment (Germany) (DVD)
• CMV Laservision (2000) (Germany) (DVD)
• Criterion Collection, The (1996) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
• Criterion Collection, The (1998) (USA) (DVD)
• First Independent Video (1995) (UK) (VHS)
• Force Video (2004) (Australia) (DVD)
• House of Horror (Sweden) (VHS)
• Image Entertainment (1998) (USA) (VHS)
• Image Entertainment (2005) (USA) (DVD)
• JVC (West Germany) (VHS)
• Net5 (2001) (Netherlands) (TV)
• Polyband (West Germany) (VHS) (as Toppic)
• Raro Video/Nocturno (2005) (Italy) (DVD)
• Triboro Entertainment Group (1999) (USA) (VHS)
• VMP (West Germany) (VHS)
• Video Gems (UK) (VHS)
• Video Instant Picture Company (VIPCO) (UK) (VHS)
• Video Invest AB (Sweden) (VHS)
• marketing-film (2003) (Germany) (DVD)

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:

Unlike the controversy over Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) the film suffered very minor cuts for its initial UK cinema release and was never listed as a video nasty. It was passed fully uncut for video in 1995 on the First Independent label.

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 Memories of a Young Pianist (2009) (V)

A campy sexy treat

I love this film.

It plays like a fantasy for decent perverts. That may sound like an oxymoron. You have 3 sexy daughters alone with their mother at some European manor. Of course there is the groundskeeper Joe Dallesandro, the hot stud who deflowers the "virgins", well, all except one daughter who seems to be holding out.

Udo Kier plays the perverted ill Dracula who needs virgin blood to gain strength. Guess who's coming to dinner at the manor house? One problem; he needs virgin blood to survive. Anything else proves lethal.

Young Joe has taken care of two of the daughters therefore Dracula gets a little sicker when he takes of their blood.

Does he get the youngest and prettiest who is the Virgin or does Joe take care of that as well.

Not big on budget. Funny at times. It is actually well filmed. Very campy and nasty.