Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Blood Of Dracula's Castle


I found a new resource for cruddy movies. It's called the Sagal Index Of The 1000 Worst Films Of All Time. I'm not sure who Sagal is but he has terrible taste in movies, and I like him for it. It's where I found a listing for The Navy Vs. The Night Monsters, which is just terrible. So I'm going to try to plow through as many of these films as I can. Thanks Sagal!

Blood Of Dracula's Castle is another in a long line of awful John Carradine movies. A chick drives her Mustang into a ditch, walks through the forest, then screams in terror at a hunchback and then faints because it's in the script and she can probably already guess this movie isn't very good. There's a swinging tune playing called Next Train Out about some guy taking a train ride to the moon, which seems like the best choice of opening theme movie for a movie about vampires. Here's a scratchy clip, which somehow enhances the overall esthetics of the clip:


So then there's a fashion photography shoot at Marineland with several walrus closeups because that makes sense, then someone gets the requisite telegram informing them a wealthy ancestor kicked the bucket and they inherit a vampire filled castle in California. Then John Carradine plays John Carradine playing a butler, and he draws some blood from the fainting chick in an unconvincing dungeon filled to the brim with bored girls chained to the walls. That seems fine. Then he serves the blood smoothie-style to some unconvincingly aristocratic vampires. They claim it keeps them young, but they're probably just making that up.

Some time later, a guy drowns a girl in a bikini while being pursued by hounds, bludgeons a dude changing a flat tire, and shoots a hitch-hiker in the face and eats his suitcase sandwich. I'm not sure why. Then there's a burning at the stake, a battle on an unconvincing staircase with a mace, and a whipping by butler; but none if it is any good. The movie tries to end a few times, but it doesn't.

Then it does.

I watched Blood Of Dracula's Castle on Youtube. 999 bad movies to go.

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