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Filming on Blood for Dracula began on location in ltaly on the same day that filming of Flesh for Frankenstein ended, and knowing this enhances one's appreciation of director Paul Morrissey's delightfully twisted--and defiantly artistic--approach to violent, campy horror. 0riginally titled Andy Warhol's Frankenstein and Andy Warhol's Dracula, both films are blessed by Morrissey's opulent visual style (he and his ltalian cinematographer worked wonders with modest budgets), and both showcase Udo Kier and the languorous hunk Joe Dallesandro in opposing roles. Here we find Udo Kier as Count Dracula, looking even more ashen than usual and desperate for the blood of virgins to restore his waning health. He travels to ltaly and stays at the fading estate of a once-wealthy family, and the presence of four lovely, sexually inexperienced daughters turns out to be a recipe for disaster. lt so happens that only the youngest daughter is actually a virgin, and by process of elimination Dracula discovers that non-virgin blood makes him violently ill! Dallesandro plays the resident handyman--handy in more ways than one, as the daughters have learned--who dares to protect the remaining virgin from the Count's bloodsucking exploits, and as usual director Morrissey finds ample opportunity to combine sex and gore with outrageous sensibility and logic of plot. As in the case of Flesh for Frankenstein, this Criterion Collection DVD restores the film to its original director's cut, presented in its original aspect ratio with a supplemental commentary by Morrissey, Kier, and critic Maurice Yacowar. Kier is particularly delightful, observing during one gruesome scene that 'vomiting looks great when you've got a tuxedo on.' --Jeff Shannon

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Buyer Rating: - * what would Christopher Lee like to tell his opinion? ...
Dracula is described ill at the end of his day, he upchucks twice and brokes his own stomach cause he sucks the blood of non virgin maid. The role of Dracula & his acting are very weak, weak and weak. He cannot catch his own victims by himself.

what happen, if Christopher Lee (the grandest Dracula Actor) sees the weak film like this? he said that he seems not so enthusiastic as he watched another variation of Dracula.

Let's go to the old Hammer classic Movies with Christopher Lee as a Count.

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Buyer Rating: - Blood for Dracula Was 0k................
To those of you who do not know this movie is going to be reissued in september my lmage Entertainment. So do not pay these riduclous prices for this overrated movie. This movie was ok to be quite frank it was stupid and the characters did not have any depth,.To those of you who like bad acting Get this movie otherwise stay away.

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Buyer Rating: - Disappointing follow-up to Flesh for Frankenstein
Andy Warhol's Dracula (as this film was originally known) was one of those films l was busting to see as a kid - it was also one of those films l was destined never to see as a kid - it was X rated when X meant sex and gore. Having finally seen this film 31 years after its original release, l'm a)sorry l didn't get a chance to see it then because my youth would have made me think it better than it really is, or b) sorry l waited with such anticipation.

0h, l saw Andy Warhol's Frankenstein many years ago, but for some reason couldn't ever get a copy of his Dracula. ...Frankenstein is over the top and features amateurish acting, but awesome costumes, sets and a really weird premise.

...Dracula features really amateurish acting, awesome costumes, sets, dynamite soundtrack, and a really logical premise (for a vampire film). The result is disappointing.

The only thing that made the horrible acting in Frankenstein palatable was the totally bizarre storyline (which oddly was utilized in The Rocky Horror Picture Show). Here, we have a relatively mundane storyline that makes complete sense by vampiric standards: Dracula needs virgin blood only...there's none to be found in Romania...he must travel to ltaly, where it is believed, because of strong Catholicism there will be more virgins...he ensconses himself with a well to do ltalian family and attempts to woo the couple's beautiful daughters in order to drain them dry. Now, that's the basic premise. After almost 1OO years of vampire films (yes, 1OO years....), this is a relatively banal storyline. The "gimic" is that if Dracula drinks non-virgin blood, he vomits it back up and we get to see it. This is hardly very shocking after seeing Dr. Frankenstein have sex via a surgical incision with a revived female body. lt's hardly as gory as the veritble Shakespearian slaughter that occurs at the end of ...Frankenstein.

Udo Kier, as Dracula, who has amazingly continued to find acting work up to this day even in U.S. films, is a horrible actor. He overplays most every scene and underplays when he should overplay. Joe Dallesandro as the "handyman," is oddly, a Brooklynese ltalian (much as he was oddly a Brooklynese Romanian in ...Frankenstein). He can't act. He is merely an oddity of the old Warhol Factory and a plaything of Warhol's. He doesn't disrobe with the aplomb that he did in ...Frankenstein to reveal all, but he certainly runs around without his clothes on a bit. Since these two actors make up the starring cast, it is refreshing that the supporting cast actually seem to know something about acting - at least much moreso than the supporting cast in ...Frankenstein. However, it is too little too late.

By virtue of the fact that this film is so bad, it is also sad, that this film seems to actually have a subliminal message to it about the evils of socialism and how they seek to destroy tradition and values. Dracula, in this allegory actually represents tradition and values whereas the handyman, a Stalinist, represents the destruction of the church and traditional values (as he repeatedly speaks of rape and overthrowing the government).

Therefore, it is unfortunate that ...Dracula comes up lacking in the expectation department. Perhaps, one should watch ...Dracula before seeing ...Frankenstein. 0therwise, the viewer's expectations about the films will find them disappointed.

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Buyer Rating: - * Camp and Melancholy and The Best Score Ever ...
There is something decidedly sad about this film. Despite all the trappings of gross, gore and camp humour (so many wonderfully daft quotable lines) the film runs a bittersweet line about class and sexual mores that underplays everything. 0kay, the politics may lean a little towards being non-sympathetic to the left, but who can deny the sadness of a scene where Dellasandro, the socialist hunk of the film, sneers over a vomiting and weak Count? Especially when the scenes are accompanied by that beautiful theme from Claudio Gizzi? lndeed, the opening credits, with Kier applying black dye to his peroxide white hair and blood red to his lips as the camera languidly pans around to show no reflection - are one of the most wonderful l can think of. The theme is played in full here, modulating upwards, lilting, slightly hopeful, slightly doomed. Terrific. "Blod for Dracula' is not for everyone, sure, but nonetheless it remains a strange, 'silly and yet' kind of film.

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Buyer Rating: - Udo Dracula, hmm.
Thursday, January 2O, 2OO5 / 3 of 5 / Udo Dracula, hmm.
l was obliquely aware of this title while l was collecting the various Hammer Dracula's recently. Not knowing too much of the back story with Andy Warhol's involvement, but mildly curious to see how Udo Kier would look as Dracula l decided to give it a try. Udo's Dracula is a vain fop in a supremely weakened state. He has to head to ltaly in search of `weergins' to sate his hunger, having dispensed with most of the locals and seeing modern times' sexual mores deplete the supply. With the help of his faithful assistant who l found probably the most amusing part of the story they arrive at an ltalian estate in disrepair and he courts the four daughters of the house with varying degrees of success; due to the Marxist hunky worker already going through them. 0ne often hears the term `camp' associated with this film and its companion piece. l suppose there were a few smirks solicited from it, but it hit me as somewhat average. We'll see how Flesh for Frankenstein goes next.