Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

CallEmLike ICem This movie sure is awful. Despite spending $8.99 on it, I threw it in the trash, rather than watch it again.The first 60 minutes or so isn't totally bad. There's a few creepy chills worked up over some vampires, who sometimes work their way up to the level of almost being scary. The female ones who decided to be nude got my attention, but even that enjoyment fluttered away quickly.Things really go downhill when we meet Dracula, living in a castle with his 'family.' Dracula doesn't like biting people anymore, apparently, and just drinks blood out of wine glasses. And you thought bargain wines from the supermarket were bad.The ending is so darn awful it defies description. If I'd been the producer and known it would end so poorly, I never would have let one frame be shot to begin with. The lead actress was good prior to this, but not even she could make the end believable - or tolerable - for one second.Some directors of low-budget movies realize when their script calls for things their budget can't succeed at. This ending badly needed that wisdom, along with restoring Dracula to someone who preys and bites, not some old dude who drinks wine. You can find someone like that at almost any bar. Some of them are even scarier than Dracula is here.Boo. As in hiss, not scary boo.

jacobjohntaylor1 There are a lot of Dracula movies made around this time that were great . And this is not one them. This Dracula sequel unlike most Dracula sequels is not scary. It is badly written. Badly acted. It has an awful ending. Don't wast your money. Don't wast your time. Don't see this movie. It is about Dracula trying find his descendants who don't know he his a vampire. He trying to turn them into vampires. This could have been a good movie. If it was not so badly acted. So badly written and had such an awful ending. Pooh pooh, pooh pooh, pooh pooh, pooh pooh, and pee pee to. Don't see this movie. Don't see it. Don't see it Don't see it.

MARIO GAUCI This is another film I had never heard of until recently; being a devotee' of both the vampire subgenre and the "Euro-Cult" style I was instantly intrigued, especially since the copy I came across promised to be of a reasonably high quality, having been released on DVD through BCI – unfortunately, though, I had to make do with the substandard English-dubbing since the original Spanish version carried no accompanying subtitles! I was nonetheless rather disappointed by the end result, even if I should have been forewarned of this via the other titles I had watched from the director involved!; the fact that only one member of the cast (the ever-luscious Helga Line') was familiar to me did not help matters.Incidentally, the general goofiness on display reminded me I had a number of vintage Mexi-Horror efforts still to catch up with; indeed, the film starts off with a truly weird scene in which the heroine (a descendant of the Draculas) dreams she is being literally menaced by a bat-man! There are several more scenes in this vein: one where it seems that all the inhabitants of a village are impaired in some way (hunchbacked, lame, half-blind, etc.), not to mention the presence of Dracula Jr. as a horrific Cyclops with webbed fingers! Bafflingly, while the seemingly obtuse villagers keep commending the Dracula family to the new arrival, they are surprised by this outburst of vampire attacks...duh! For this reason, the entire family looks upon the heroine as the last hope of the vampire bloodline (even if she is not one herself), since the girl is pregnant by her lanky blond husband; when the couple finally arrive at Castle Dracula, she asks the keeper to show her the tomb of her grandmother…where the coffins of the current members of the family are also plainly in sight, which she obviously finds not a little odd! Despite the expected emphasis on nudity (this was probably yet another example of an "International Version") and ghoulishness (with the color scheme intentionally on the dreary side), the film is both plodding (feeling much longer than it actually is) and slapdash (though intermittent 'filmed-through-a-gauze' shots seem at the very least to be intentional, albeit superfluous, or else inherent in the negative!).Ultimately, one regrets the film not being somewhat better than it is, as the script appeared to be striving for something more than the usual blood-sucking fare: the whole ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968)-like subplot, the melancholic/philosophical tone adopted by the atypically elderly Count (though he reverts to camp at the very end when his disembodied head breaks up into laughter!), not to mention a climax in which the leading lady goes berserk and becomes the axe-wielding executioner of her own brood (even if she is herself mortally wounded in the massacre)…though it all contrives to keep the Dracula name alive (after all) by feeding the infant with the dripping blood of its own mother!

Paul Andrews La Saga de los Dracula, or The Dracula Saga as it's known to most English speaking audiences, is set in Transylvania where the last of the Draculas live, they are a dying species & are almost extinct. Count Dracula (Narciso Ibanez Menta) has invited his pregnant Granddaughter Berta (Tina Sainz) to her childhood castle after having been living in London for many years, together with her husband Hans (Tony Isbert) she travels to Transylvania & onwards to 'Vlad Castle' despite the ominous warnings from superstitious locals & discovering a woman near the castle almost totally drained of blood. Count Draculas administrator Gabor (J.J Paladino) picks Berta & Hans up from the hotel they've been staying in & takes them to the castle to reunite Berta with her Grandfather Count Dracula & her two Cousins Irina (Cristina Suriani) & Xenia (Maria Kosti). Once there the castle seems deserted, furthermore while looking at her Grandmothers coffin in the family crypt Berta finds coffins with her Garndfathers & Cousins names on them. Things begin to get nasty, Berta suffers from nightmares, the wine they are given to drink tastes horrible & looks suspiciously like blood, Hans disappears & there happens to be a mutant one-eyed web fingered kid locked up in the castle belonging to Count Dracula, he needs a child of his own to carry on the Dracula name & Berta is about to give birth...This Spanish production was directed by Leon Klimovsky & I have to say I really liked it, a lot. La Saga de los Dracula seems to be a pretty obscure film with very little information about it on the internet, I personally think this is a bit of an injustice as there are so many crap Euro horror films out there this deserves much better, I think it might be because it doesn't have Paul Naschy in it! Anyway, the script by Emilio Martinez Lazaro & Juan Tebar is a classic Gothic Dracula tale but has enough ideas & individuality to stand out on it's own. From the superstitious locals, the castle, the caped Count Dracula, the innocents, sleeping in coffins & plenty of blood drinking. The film moves along at a nice pace & while it's far from the most exciting or action packed Dracula film it's very entertaining & has a good solid watchable story helped by decent character's & dialogue. The twist that comes towards the end also surprised me a bit as I definitely wasn't expecting it, basically La Saga de los Dracula is just a fantastically told Dracula story that I personally enjoyed watching & I loved the climax where Berta decides to take some sweet revenge on her family with an axe! One thing that did annoy me is that we, the viewer that is, never actually get to find out what that wine really was, it was implied that it's blood but it's never confirmed. On the negative side I would have liked a bit more blood & gore in it although this is a minor gripe as a horror film doesn't have to be gory or violent to be good, although it helps!Director the late Klimovsky, who has 77 films credited to him as director alone, does a wonderful job & this has to be one of the best looking Dracula films I've ever seen. The best way I can describe it is as a Spanish Hammer film but even better, from the fantastic brickwork castle, the candlelit dungeons, crypts & dining rooms along with the spooky woods, graveyards & local village. The props, costumes & production design are sumptuous, from the horse drawn carriages & long white curtains flapping in the breeze to the period dresses & corsets to the amount of detail. I loved the way La Saga de los Dracula looked, it has a brilliant atmosphere even when nothing is happening on screen it still felt just a little bit eerie, there are a couple of cool shocks & as a whole the film is great to look at. There's not much gore here, there's a really freaky nasty looking deformed mutant kid, a couple of Vampire attacks, someone is stabbed which involves a very impressive special effect, someones head falls off during a dream sequence & at the climax Berta runs riot with an axe although very little graphic gore is seen apart from her chopping someones hand off. There's a fair amount of nudity as well.Technically La Saga de los Dracula is far better than you would expect, it's a fantastic looking film although it's let down by some poor English dubbing as usual for these types of low budget Euro horror. The acting was OK & the ladies are pretty enough.I wasn't expecting to but I really liked La Saga de los Dracula & that's the biggest recommendation I can give it. If you like this sort of Euro horror than I can't recommend La Saga de los Dracula enough, a real surprise & a bit of a treat.