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Theatrical Release: 1974-11-06 DVD Release: 1998-12-22 Torrent Release: 21-09-2022 by user
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Movie Genre:
Horror
Runtime:
106 min.
Parental Rating:
R
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Udo Kier is without a doubt the sickliest of vampires in any director's interpretation of the Bram Stoker tale. Count Dracula knows that if he fails to drink a required amount of pure virgin's [pronounced "wirgin's"] blood, it's time to move into a permanent coffin. His assistant (Renfield?) suggests that the Count and he pick up his coffin and take a road trip to Italy, where families are known to be particularly religious, and therefore should be an excellent place to search for a virgin bride. They do, only to encounter a family with not one, but FOUR virgins, ready for marriage. The Count discovers one-by-one that the girls are not as pure as they say they are, meanwhile a handsome servant/Communist begins to observe strange behaviour from the girls who do spend the night with the Count. It's a race for Dracula to discover who's the real virgin, before he either dies from malnourishment or from the wooden stake of the Communist!
Sinopsis by IMDBBlood for Dracula (1974), aka Andy Warhol's Dracula, directed by Paul Morrissey, Severin Uncut 4k remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original theatrical stereo, commentary track, and English subtitles.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071233/
Video encoded in two-pass 11.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image.
Note : Shot immediately after production on Flesh for Frankenstein finished, and using the same main actors, Morrissey's Andy Warhol-sponsored take on Dracula is no less weird, although I think in many ways it may be the better film, though it's less over the top. Instead of the weird Serbian fascist Doctor Frankenstein, we get Dracula as a sort of aging silent film star a la Valentino, dyeing his hair black and moping around in outrageous costumes, and that's before we get to the most literal take I've seen on the "vampires as aristocrats sucking the working classes dry" metaphor I think I've seen, with Joe Dallesandro playing a literal Marxist farmhand who is the only one to realize the threat of Dracula, in between sleeping with his employers' daughters. It's weird, campy, and not exactly good, but it's fascinating to watch, and Udo Kier's all-in performance as a sickly vampire confined to a wheelchair for lack of virgin blood is kind of mesmerizing.
Count Dracula is dying, since there are no virgins left for him to feed on, and he leaves his sister, who is even worse off (and is never mentioned again) in the castle's crypt before leaving Romania for Italy, where his manservant has convinced him there are more virgins available, since "it's a very Catholic country". At their arrival, they're quickly put in touch with the Di Fiore family, whose patriarch, the Marchese Di Fiore, has gambled away most of the family fortune, but whose four daughters are all supposed to be virgins and available for marriage. However, it turns out the two daughters that are of appropriate age are having lots and lots of sex with the estate's farmhand, who is also an avowed Socialist who rails against the family and the upper classes in general, and while the family is either oblivious or gradually being seduced by Dracula, he might be the only one who can stop the threat.
This 4k remaster isn't the greatest, but it's decent, reasonably clean, ok color and contrast, basically it does the job. The commentary track is worth listening to, with both Morrissey and Kier commenting.
