I was not expecting Blood for Dracula (also known as Andy Warhol’s Dracula although his actual contribution to the film is said to be pretty limited) to give me such a way out interpretation of the count, far from the suave sexy vampiric dreamboat, Udo Kier portrays Drac as a whiny, sickness deleted man-baby Karen.
Seeking the blood of a virgin (only a virgin will do apparently), Dracula heads to Italy where he hopes to woo one of the four Di Fiore daughters. Saphira (Dominique Darel) and Rubinia (Stefania Casini) clearly don’t fit the bill thanks to their regular liaison with farm hand Mario (Joe Dallesandro), Esmeralda (Milena Vukotic) is considered past her prime and Perla (Silvia Dionisio) is much too young.
What’s a hungry drac gotta do to get a feed around here?
This is primarily exploitation fodder with plenty of flesh and a bloody axe swinging finale that reaches Monty Python levels of absurdity, whilst also making some attempt at class commentary, with Dallesandro a pro-workers rights revolutionary, unfortunately his character is such a dick I can’t foresee him inspiring the masses to down tools.
Be it an arisocratic count or a studly farm hand, it is clear from the film however that men are primarily driven by the exchange of bodily fluids (blood or…otherwise).
A less than favourable depiction that would indicate perhaps Warhol did learn a lesson or two from Valarie Solanas and her .32-caliber Beretta semi-automatic pistol.
I was not expecting Blood for Dracula (also known as Andy Warhol’s Dracula although his actual contribution to the film is said to be pretty limited) to give me such a way out interpretation of the count, far from the suave sexy vampiric dreamboat, Udo Kier portrays Drac as a whiny, sickness deleted man-baby Karen.
Seeking the blood of a virgin (only a virgin will do apparently), Dracula heads to Italy where he hopes to woo one of the four Di Fiore daughters. Saphira (Dominique Darel) and Rubinia (Stefania Casini) clearly don’t fit the bill thanks to their regular liaison with farm hand Mario (Joe Dallesandro), Esmeralda (Milena Vukotic) is considered past her prime and Perla (Silvia Dionisio) is much too young.
What’s a hungry drac gotta do to get a feed around here?
This is primarily exploitation fodder with plenty of flesh and a bloody axe swinging finale that reaches Monty Python levels of absurdity, whilst also making some attempt at class commentary, with Dallesandro a pro-workers rights revolutionary, unfortunately his character is such a dick I can’t foresee him inspiring the masses to down tools.
Be it an arisocratic count or a studly farm hand, it is clear from the film however that men are primarily driven by the exchange of bodily fluids (blood or…otherwise).
A less than favourable depiction that would indicate perhaps Warhol did learn a lesson or two from Valarie Solanas and her .32-caliber Beretta semi-automatic pistol.
