Greetings and salutations.
Lately I have become inspired. Perhaps I will make this place a little more bloggish in nature and talk about more than art (mine or others). Let’s chat, shall we? Talk about movies we like? Other blogs to check out? Tips on how to get blood out of the carpet?
Wait…
Well, along this line, I want to make the first installment about something awesome. Let’s talk film.
So. Blood for Dracula. If you haven’t seen it, check it out. That’s if you like Vampires or any type of cheesy horror. Not if your favourite movie is… I dunno… The Notebook.
By the way, don’t let the subtitle “Andy Warhol presents…” scare you away. He had nothing to do with it.
Anyway. 1974. Starring the uber-hot Udo Kier. You know him. He’s in every vampire movie ever. Even the vampire movies before he was born. Alright, maybe not those but you’ve seen him, you know him, you love him. In this particular film he’s super slick and oh-so-stylish (especially in a fur coat that closely resembles one of mine) and really guys, all he wants is blood from a virgin. Apparently that’s as hard to come by in 1974 as it is now.
Count Dracula is looking for a wife. Actually, he’s in a weakend state and is scouring the Italian countryside for virgin blood to make him stronger. He finds himself staying in a villa belonging to a once-rich man, his wife, his four daughters and their boyfriend Communist Klaus (played by Joe from the Bronx). Of course the man is trying to peddle off his daughters to regain family wealth. Of course, Dracula is all about biting these hot chicks, provided they’re pure. They should be pure, right? Religious Italy? The plot thickens.
The film looks fantastic because it was recently revamped (srsly, am here all night) and there’s just a whole bunch of beautiful people in it. Aside from Heir Kier and his Crispin-Glover-esque assistant, the four daughters look like they’ve come straight out of a Mucha painting. There’s tons of nudity and sex and you don’t mind it because everyone is gorgeous.
So, big thumbs up.
Until next time.
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