 
The
Count (Udo Kier) needs to drink an amount
of virgin blood or he would need to move
to a permanent coffin.
Him and his assistant Anton (Arno
Juerging) travel to Italy with his coffin
to find virgin as he is aware that
families there are religious and searches
for his vigin bride.
He stays in a mansion where there are
four virgins ready for marriage. However,
they are not as they say they are as an
obnoxious male servant named Mario Balato
(Joe Dallesandro) fornicates and rapes
them.
While the Count spends the night with
them and drinks their blood he gets sick
and the four sisters behave like sleazy
vegetables.
The Count needs to find who the virgin is
before he dies or has a stake through his
heart by Mario.
Most of Andy
Warhol's films are pure crap if
you've seen Flesh, Women
in Revolt or Trash
but this one was a real improvement.
I liked this one as it was considered a
take on Bram Stokers Dracula flick
plus it has a real feel to those old
vampire movies.
Well done and does look believeably old
fashioned B&W vampire type of flick
with a bit more gore and artsy lust
involved but the story drags alot with
some pointless dialogues.
The acting is
fairly good. Former hustler Little
Joe Dallesandro has
improved alot more than his past Warhol
films as he probably held off doing
drugs while being on set and had a great
sleazy and nasty aggression to his
character but yet his energy is still low
many times in the film.
Seeing Udo Kier in this film
almost promises you that he'd be the next
Bela Lugosi and shows wonderful
character to his role as a weak from
blood hunger Dracula.
Arno Juerging was probably
considered the best out of all the cast
with his perfect looks, sharp speaking
and wicked actions along with being a
terrific servant to Dracula making all of
his actions come to life doing so.
Maxime McKendry comes off perfectly
with her speech whenever she talks in the
film as a strict as nails and snooty rich
mother to her virgin daughters in the
film
Domenique Darrel does a wonderful
job as the stuck up Saphiria who eagerly
wanted to lose her virginity.
Silvia Dionisio came across
wonderfully as the youngest of the virgin
sisters and brought her part by being
innocent incredibly realisticly.
Plenty of nudity
as both Dominique Darel and Stefania
Casini are fornicating with Joe
Dallesandro's character Mario in bed
(Joe has the typical butt shot)
as well as him ripping off their clothes
in other scenes and they pull down their
blouse to expose their breasts during Joe's
first scene outside while they're
working.
Darel is fully nude from top to
bottom during a few scene's especially
when she is standing in a bathtub washing
herself.
Darel and Casini are in bed
together after being bitten by Dracula
fully breasted.
Lots of blood
including Dracula throwing up lots of it.
A bloody bullet shot in the head is
revealed.
Dracula's arms and legs are also chopped
off during the end of the film with blood
gushing out.
The directing by Paul Morrissey
is not too bad as he had a little help
from Italian director Antonio
Margheriti since that is where the
shot the film as well as it was taking
place at so Paul could get the feel of
directing an Italian horror film.
There is a perfect shot on Udo Kier during
the opening credits putting make-up on
and dying his hair which gives it that
nice Warhol feel to it.
Both Kier and Arno Juerging act
off well together as Dracula and his
servant when they discuss looking for a
virgin in Italy. The camera shots on them
were well done while discussing this and
their dialogues together in other scene's
were fabulously directed too as it looked
very Bela Lugosi like.
Kier shows good growly type
attitude after he discovers his room in a
fleabitten hotel and his hatred for it
and later on looked great while lying on
a bed acting like he is having a seizure
due to more hunger for blood and acts
weak and anxious which all came together
well which almost seems so psychological
when you're feeling hungry for something
to eat.
We spot nice work involving the three
actresses Dominique Darel, Stefania
Casini and Silvia Dionisio
working away in a garden and stalling
too. Darel and Casini both
discuss well with one another about the
work being too hot for them and they undo
their tops plus were good at showing
attitude towards Silvia Dionisio when
she behaves insecure at what they do in
which she was good at doing. Of course we
spot a nice camera shot Joe
Dallesandro walking towards Darel
and talking to her acting disgusted with
her attitude.
The shots and performance on the sex
scene's between Dallesandro and
Darel looked believeably lustful and
very artsy too.
Dallesandro shows great aggressions
by throwing Casini's character
around and molesting her which was one of
the most powerful directions in the film.
Dallesandro and Darel show
a nice and brief sharp dispute towards
and Dallesandro was a wee bit
slow when he strikes her but it picks up
when he menacingingly forces her face to
his crotch.
We spot a perfect camera shot on both Kier
and Casini when he is biting her
neck and drinking her blood. Casini
herself shows nice shocked expressions
with her eyes wide open and is breathing
heavily like she's having an orgasm which
seemed to go along greatly with that
scenario and very old fashioned dracula
horror like too.
We spot a nice scene with Kier attacking
Darel. Darel reacts believeably
terrified with her screams and
expressions.
Kier really reacts believeably sick
with his expressions and groaning after
drinking the blood that he thought was
virgin blood and greatly reacted to
throwing up along with some nice takes on
him running to a toilet or bathtub.
Juerging shows a nice wicked
expression on his face asking Dionisio's
character how old she is and he does it
very initimidating like. The camera shot
on his face looked marvellous too.
One of the best takes was with Dallesandro
chasing after Kier with an axe
and chopping him up.
Supporting actress Milena Vukotic runs
up to see this moment and shrieked in
terror which looked perfectly done and
very intense when she shows off her
devastating emotions.
The music is
wonderfully classically composed by Claudio Gizzi as
it does sound like a 20's or 30's type of
film along with some great soothing music
for the lustful moments. He did the same
for Andy Warhol's other flick
Frankenstein.
Count Dracula: The
blood of these whores is killing me.
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