Ok, its the end of October, and as always, I bump vampire movies to the top of my Netflix queue. I even put out a call on Facebook for recommendations, mid-month. Thanks to everyone who made suggestions. I didnt get to any of them this year, but the ones I havent seen got added to the Netflix queue for future Octobers. Here are the results of my vampire watching for the month: I started with Taste the Blood of Dracula a Hammer Horror blood and boobs movie that barely featured Christopher Lee as Dracula, as by then he was tiring of playing the part. Evidently, they couldnt get US distribution without him, so he was added, and the whole thing was disjointed (and mostly, poorly acted). Next up was The Vampire Happening, a European film that couldnt decide if it wanted to be erotica or a comedy. As the comedy was terrible, it would have been better off doubling down as erotica, but didnt even go that far. Sadly, quite boring, and the characters made no sense. Dracula A.D. 1972 was next, and was another Christopher Lee Hammer Horror, but didnt even have the boobs that the previous one had. The youths who fall under Draculas spell were all performed by mediocre actors given even worse dialogue meant to approximate hip lingo, and the acting and dialog were still way better than Blade of the Vampire in which the 20-somethings playing the street teen youths all must have known the writer-director-producer of this cheap straight to video crapfest. The two male leads, (1 vampire, one vampire hunter) both seem to be adherents of the Christian Bale-as-Batman-if I make my voice sound like I gargle with gravel and whiskey, Ill seem badass school of acting. Fellas, really, only Clint Eastwood can pull that off, and even then, he should ratchet it back some. Without hyperbole, I have consistently seen better quality film production (acting, makeup, cinematography, score, screenplay) in short films made over a weekend for the Frederick 72 Hour Film Fest. The gem of the month, however, was the 1979 version of Dracula, featuring Frank Langella. He was great. The movie was a little slow at times, but by and large, I was quite impressed with the film. The film begins with Draculas arrival in England, so no Transylvania, but is mostly faithful to the book otherwise. Renfields character wasnt used well, though.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 06:18:31 +0000
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