Rent Blood for Dracula (1974)
3.1 of 5 from 68 ratings
1h 43min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- The ailing Count Dracula (Udo Kier) and his conniving aide, Anton (Arno Juerging), journey to Italy in pursuit of virgin blood. Their path leads them to the decaying mansion of the indebted Marchese Di Fiore (Vittorio De Sica), who's keen to wed his daughters to wealthy suitors. Yet, what awaits are not chaste maidens, but rather incestuous lesbians tainted by impure blood.
- Actors:
- Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Vittorio De Sica, Maxime McKendry, Arno Juerging, Milena Vukotic, Dominique Darel, Stefania Casini, Silvia Dionisio, Inna Alexeievna, Gil Cagne, Emi Califri, Eleonora Zani
- Directors:
- Paul Morrissey
- Producers:
- Andrew Braunsberg, Carlo Ponti, Andy Warhol, Jean Yanne
- Writers:
- Paul Morrissey, Pat Hackett, Bram Stoker
- Aka:
- Dracula Cerca Sangue di Vergine / Dracula / Andy Warhol's Young Dracula
- Studio:
- Tartan
- Genres:
- Classics, Horror
- Collections:
- Films & TV by topic, Films to Watch If You Like..., Memory Lane: Films Set in 1920s, What to Watch Next If You Liked Dracula
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 15/12/2023
- Run Time:
- 103 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- None
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Little Big Joe - Interview with Actor Joe Dallesandro
- Conversation with a Vampire - Audio Interview with Actress Milena Vukotic
- Bloodthirsty - Interview with Assistant Director Paolo Pietrangeli
- Black Cherry - Interview with Art Director Gianni Giovagnoni
- The Blood of These Whores... - Interview with Author Stephen Thrower
- Sad Romantic Dracula - Interview with Soundtrack Composer Claudio Gizzi
- The Roman Connection - Interview with Producer Andrew Braunsberg
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 12/05/2025
- Run Time:
- 103 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- DVD Regions:
- Region 0 (All)
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Sad Romantic Dracula - Interview with Soundtrack Composer Claudio Gizzi
- Conversation wilh a Vampire - Audio Interview wilh Actress Milena Vukotic
- The Roman Connection -I nterview with Producer Andrew Braunsberg
- The Blood of These Whores...- lnlerview wilh Author Slephen Thrower
- Bloodthirsty - Interview with Assistant Director Paolo Pietrangeli
- Black Cherry - Interview with Art Director Gianni Giovagnoni
- Little Big Joe - Interview with Actor Joe Da Dallesandro
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Reviews (2) of Blood for Dracula
Fangs for Nothing: A Bloodsucker’s Guide to Marxist Italy - Blood for Dracula review by griggs
Blood for Dracula is what happens when Andy Warhol produces a vampire film but forgets to include a pulse. Udo Kier stars as a tubercular, virgin-obsessed Count who leaves a bloodless Romania for Italy, where the local virgins are all too busy being ravished by a communist handyman with muscles and a moustache. What follows is a two-hour fever dream of incest, rape, domestic violence, and a sprinkling of paedophilia, all wrapped in painfully dry, soundless sex scenes and Marxism. The acting is wooden, the accents criminal, and the political commentary so blunt it could bruise fruit. And yet—somehow—it’s mesmerising. Praise be to the 4K UHD restoration, which polishes this sleazy oddity into a thing of warped beauty. The colours pop, the grain dances, and Kier’s sweaty desperation has never looked sharper. It’s tasteless, tone-deaf, utterly absurd… and weirdly more watchable than Twilight.
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Absolutely Awful Horror Film. - Blood for Dracula review by GI
This is without doubt an awful film. From script, acting, music score, plot it's amateurish, poorly directed and you'll find yourself laughing more out of embarrassment than anything else. This horror film is out of the Andy Warhol Factory group with director Paul Morrissey a leading figure. Despite some smatterings of solid production values the overall film is a mess. Count Dracula (Udo Keir - who at least did go on to a renowned acting career) is ailing and in need of virgin (pronounced wirgin here!) blood so he trots off to Italy where his faithful servant assures him there's a plethora of virgins to satisfy his needs. Toting his coffin on the roof of the car the two find a villa with four virgin daughters for him to ravish. But the gardener (Joe Dallesandro) has been shagging most of them causing some frustrations for the Count and plenty of blood vomiting. This is a film that is an excuse for plenty of female nudity, some incestuous lesbian sex and the rape of a fourteen year old (to protect her from the vampire of course!!). The climax is more reminiscent of Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975) than any horror film and even the worst of the Hammer Horrors is nowhere near as bad as this.
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