Blood for Dracula

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.

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.

(And, by the way, i just want to say to some of the other reviewers that Andy Warhol had nothing to do with the movie. NOTHING!!! He simply put his name on it to help the film make money.)