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This film, another by Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol is less disturbing than their previous release, "Flesh for Frankenstein."

This film is also a loose adaptation of the book.
Set in the 1920's or 30's Dracula is dying. To survive he must drink the blood of a virgin. He has become too notorious in Romania to approach any women and there are few virgins there. So he and his caregiver drive to Italy as they believe that there are more virgins there. He stays with a family that has 4 daughters, when asking some them if they are virgins, they lie and he becomes very sick from drinking their blood.

The film has excellent music which deserves to be in a better film. The Criterion collection special features are sudio commentary by cast and crew. There is also an 11 minute slideshow of production and publicity photos backed with selections from the musical score.

not as bad as frankenstein but still disturbing. Great Music
This review is for the Criterion Collection edition of the film.

This film, also recieved an X rating by the MPAA and was heavily cut for the R rated version.

The film is a loose and more modern adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel. In this version set in 1920's Europe, Dracula is dying. He must drink the blood of a female virgin to survive. Hhe is too well known in Romania to get close to any women and virgins are rare, so he and his servant drive to Italy as they believe the influence of the Roman church would encourage women to remain chaste. He then stays in the home of a family with 4 daughters. He interviews them, but they lie about being virgins and Dracula gets very sick from drinking their blood.

The film is violent and has several disturbing sex scenes in it.

The music in the film is very nice though and it seems unfit for a movie of this type.

The DVD special features include audio comnmentary and an 11 minute slide show of publicity photos with the excellent musical score in the backround.

Boring, pompous and about as scary as "My Three Sons".
The tag-line for this movie should be changed to "Who Kier's?".
BLOOD FOR DRACULA is a major disappointment, especially compared to its companion film FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN. In this painful bore from director Paul Morrissey, Dracula (Udo Kier in a blank, mechanical performance which makes the viewer pine for Christopher Lee or Gary Oldman) heads to England in search of "where-gin" blood. The only problem is, the Count winds up in a house full of promiscuous young women, who are of no use to him. Sounds good so far doesn't it? Well yer wrong bucko!
There's not enough blood & gore- especially compared to FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN. There's a decent amount of female nudity but nothing that stands out enough to make you want to punish yourself by sitting through the whole movie. This is nowhere near as bad as Warhol/Morrissey's collaborative non-movie TRASH, but it's still no good. The movie is not a recommended starting point if you're a "where-gin" to horror films; even though BLOOD FOR DRACULA is a "horror" in every other sense of the word.
If you're after an interesting, original & entertaining vampire film I recommend the 1987 Kathryn Bigelow movie NEAR DARK or the 1974 Hammer film LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES, which successfully combined the horror & kung fu genres. But don't waste your time with this- unless you happen to be a pretentious, quiche-eating ponce. But what would you expect from a movie presented by a guy who managed to turn a Campbell's Soup Can (of all things) into serious "ART"?! (Maybe I should put one of my empty Speights bottles in a glass case and pay gullible schmucks two bucks apiece to look at it).
BLOOD FOR DRACULA doesn't really qualify as horror or softcore erotica. Its touches of "humor" aren't funny, so the end result is a cheap, boring and poorly acted snoozefest. There ARE some boobies but nothing to justify sitting through this. If that's what you're after you'd probably be better off renting ELVIRA: MISTRESS OF THE DARK (even though its a comedy) and pausing the tape at regular intervals. At least we can remain thankful that the Warhol/ Morrissey camp didn't get to have their wicked way with R.L Stevenson's DR JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE or Gaston LeRoux's PHANTOM OF THE OPERA!