Andy Warhol Presents Blood For Dracula DVD – Tartan USA Released

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Rare Tartan DVD release USA Region 0.

Andy Warhol protege Paul Morrissey directs this stylised cult adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic tale. Udo Kier plays the vampire count, who needs to consume the blood of virgins to remain alive. Travelling through Italy in search of pure young women, Dracula finds four young ladies who seem to fit the bill. Observing this strange activity is the girls’ servant, Mario (Joe Dallesandro), who begins to suspect that their new suitor is not all that he seems.

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At the premiere of “Blood for Dracula”, Paul Morrissey thanked the jury for inviting his “…silly little film.” to the Atlantic International Film Festival. And to some degree, it is a silly film, as it both takes liberties with horror conventions and the Dracula myth.

Where the nemesis of Dracula traditionally is Van Helsing, it is now a common working man, a gardener, who takes the virginity from Draculas daughters. In “Blood for Dracula”, Dracula can only drink the blood of virgins, and as he desperate bites one of his own daughters, he is send into a vomiting fit, as she isn’t one anymore. The story thus becomes a symbolic fall of the aristocracy by the working class, where the gardener in the end kills Dracula, as well as an attack on the moral values of the catholic church via lust of the flesh.

“Blood for Dracula” remains one of the most amusing spoofs on the Dracula myth and a demonstration of the genius of Paul Morrissey.

Henrik Sylow

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