Daughter of Dracula

Daughter of Dracula (1972)

La Fille de Dracula

Luisa is called to the bed of her dying mother Edith at Karlstein Castle. Before she dies, she tells Luisa that the Karlsteins are a family of vampires and that her ancestor, the original Count Karlstein, lies buried in the crypt. Afterwards, Luisa goes and finds the count's coffin and discovers that he is undead. As she takes Karine, her cousin as her lover, a police inspector, Ptuschko investigates a series of killings around the town, dismissing the locals who insist these are being caused by vampires.

Date of release
1972-12-14
TMDB
4.4 / 10 (27)
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
Horror, Mystery
Director
Jesús Franco
Collection
Dracula & Frankenstein (Jesús Franco Collection)

Casting

Interesting facts

Daughter of Dracula is a 1972 erotic horror film directed and written by Jesús Franco. The film is set in a modern-day coastal Spanish town, where the Karlstein family is cursed by Count Dracula who sleeps in a coffin in the basement of their home. Meanwhile, murders spring about town, leading to the local a local journalist named Charlie to investigate them, with his research leading him to the Karlstein home.

Development

After making the sex comedy film Sexy Darlings (1971), director Jesús Franco would work on several films for the Paris-based producer Robert de Nesle, whose Comptoir Français du Film Production (CFFP) would produce or co-produce 23 of Franco's films for the next ten years. During this period, Franco's film production would accelerate, with the director completing six films in 1971, eight in 1972, and eleven in 1973.

Among the cast was Alberto Dalbés, who first worked with Franco in The Devil Came from Akasava (1971) and would regularly work with Franco for four years. Britt Nichols, also known as Carmen Yazalde, was a Lisbon-based actress whose brief film career included seven films made with Franco in a two-year period.

The film was shot after Franco had filmed Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972) in early 1972. It was shot in Portugal at both Monserrate Palace and Palácio dos Condes de Castro Guimarães in Cascais. Other scenes were shot in Sintra in Portugal and Murcia in Spain. Anne Libert, who played Karine in the film and had acted in several Franco films, described working with Franco as being amazing.

While French prints credit René Sylviano as the film's composer, other sources credit Daniel White with additional music provided by Franco and Ezequiel Caldas.

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