Blood for Dracula

Blood for Dracula (1974)

He couldn't live without a virgin's blood..... ...So a virgin had to die!

Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario, who's suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.

Date of release
1974-08-13
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (192)
Runtime
1h 43m
Genres
Horror
Director
Paul Morrissey

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Dracula

Blood for Dracula is a 1974 English-language horror film written and directed by Paul Morrissey. It stars Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, Maxime McKendry, Stefania Casini, Arno Juerging, and Vittorio De Sica. Upon its original 1974 release in both West Germany and the United States, the film was released as Andy Warhol's Dracula.

Production

In 1973, Paul Morrissey and Joe Dallesandro came to Italy to shoot a film for producers Andrew Braunsberg and Carlo Ponti. The original idea came from director Roman Polanski who had met Morrissey when promoting his film What? with Morrissey stating that Polanski felt he would be "a natural person to make a 3-D film about Frankenstein.

One day after the principal shooting for Flesh for Frankenstein was completed, Morrissey had Udo Kier, Dallesandro and Arno Juerging get shorter haircuts, as filming for Blood for Dracula began immediately. The film featured other directors in the cast, including Vittorio De Sica, who wrote his own lines on the set. Roman Polanski also made a cameo in a tavern scene.

The Italian credits of the film give it different ones, including stating that Tonino Guerra wrote the screenplay and story, and Franca Silvi edited the film as opposed to Jed Johnson. Antonio Margheriti is credited as the director in the Italian prints, which he later claimed was not true, but that he did direct scenes with Silvia Dionisio and Vittorio De Sica.

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