MC
Marco Castellini
•In the thirties, Count Dracula is now reduced to the extreme of his forces: to survive he needs to feed on virgin blood, but it seems that very few are left in circulation! The Count decides to move to the very Catholic Italy convinced of finding a different situation there, but he will discover at his expense that women are the same all over the world! Directed in duo by our Margheriti-Dawson and by the eccentric Paul Morrissey, the film is a particular and strangely successful mix between horror and erotism, irony and decadentism. It begins with an almost horror atmosphere, takes on the rhythms of a comedy and ends up touching even political-social themes, all within a framework that seeks to innovate and in part "demolish" the old myth of vampires (Dracula resists daylight, fears only crucifixes and eats "normal" foods!). Curiosity: despite the ironic and almost comedic atmosphere that pervades the entire film, the movie had no few problems with censorship, especially for the explicit sex sequences that were cut and, in some cases, re-shot in a more "chaste" version. The excellent splatter finale, however, remained intact, where one witnesses the killing and dismemberment of the "poor" Dracula (special effects credit to the great Carlo Rambaldi).
