Countess Dracula’s Orgy of Blood
Frontline Films
R0 NTSC
Web: http://www.FrontlineFilms.com
I
have always loved B Grade vampire films; Hammer films always took my fancy with
their mixture of high camp, bad sets and women who seem unable to keep their
clothes on. I don’t think enough people get these sort of films today, while
Hollywood blockbusters and extreme horror has its place, I like the playfulness
and eroticism of this type of movie.
I
was first introduced to Donald Glut’s films with Blood Scarab and loved it; it
was such a great mixture of horror clichés, beautiful women, eroticism and
humour. Countess Dracula’s Orgy of Blood
is not quite as polished as Blood Scarab,
it was made some four years early (this is a remastered re-release) and a lot
has been learnt in-between, but still it is lots of fun.
The
film opens with an “old West” vampire story. A gunslinger is constantly
polishing his gun (!) while a lesbian vampire seduces his wife in one very
raunchy scene. As the vampire and his wife escape into the night he calls his
local priest and together they hunt down the vampires. Father Jacinto (Paul
Naschy in his first American role) has lost his faith, but confronted by such
evil his belief is renewed and he vows to stay in the spirit world until the
evil is vanquished. He drives a special silver stake through the vampire’s
heart and we move to L.A. Today.
In
L.A. today vampires live a very modern lifestyle, the female vampires like to
do erotic sex dances with stakes and their retro look fits right in. Dracula
himself decides to bring Lord Ruthven back from the dead since he believes he
deserves another chance at “life”. However when Lord Ruthven returns he faces a
bleak future. The silver dagger has contaminated his blood stream and this
means he cannot drink blood from any mortal, it must first pass through the
veins of another vampire. This means he must revive his highly promiscuous
lesbian sister Diana who caused his downfall in the first place by her
uncontrollable lust and bad behaviour.
As
he searches for his lost love Roxanne, he must deal with a priest from the
spirit world standing in his way, his out of control lesbian sister and lots of
other dangers. Filled with hot sex, voluptuous women, gratuitous nudity,
lesbian action it is a superbly guilty pleasure. It has been beautifully
remastered with superb picture quality and a DD5.1 soundtrack.
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