Blood for Dracula (Sangue per Dracula) (1974)

Film Diary 2023 (39 movies items)

"25.1 Count Dracula: The blood of these whores is killing me. 6.3"

“Rarely have we seen a count Dracula so abused on the screen. Lonely, desperate,sick with vomiting blood and not being able to move around other than a wheelchair,in a word: pitiful. A true vampire nightmare to which the brilliant Udo Kier lends himself in a hallucinatory performance which is already a milestone. We are far from Hammer productions: total transgression of gender codes, explicit eroticism, criticism of bourgeois society well-meaning, openly proletarian theme, shock finale...

One year after the already monstrous "Flesh for Frankenstein", Paul Morrissey has unquestionably made one of the craziest and most iconoclastic vampire films ever.

Cinematic madness!” read more

MOVIES Watched in 2021 (175 movies items)

" See my review here : https://www.listal.com/viewentry/20960951 "

“(OK) Elegant, pauses rythm, long exposure of blood and vomit; perfect locations, pauses acting... sexy moments...” read more

Phoenix Feather's Movie Diary 2018 (497 movies items)

"(WATCHED: 18 May 2018)"

Slant’s 100 Greatest Horror Films – 2018 Edition (100 movies items)

"The horror of Blood for Dracula derives in part from director Paul Morrissey’s unique ability to meld social critique, gonzo humor, and gore into a genre piece that’s ambivalent about the passing of eras. Udo Kier’s Count Dracula, unable to find virgin blood amid the sexually active women of a 19th-century Italian family, finds himself quite literally poisoned by change. As Dracula vomits up non-virgin blood like water from a fire hydrant, Morrissey films Kier’s convulsing body not for c"

Films watched - Katselut 2016 (220 movies items)

"Ymnärrän kyllä hyvin tämän kulttimaineen. Kier ja kumppanit vetävät aivan törkeitä aksentteja ja perseilevät. Kuvasto on näyttävää kuten musatkin."