'The Dracula Saga' (1975) – León Klimovsky.
Euro-cult auteur, León Klimovsky hybridizes the bloodthirsty Bram Stoker legend with an appropriately giddy screamplay by writer, Lazarus Kaplan. Along with the original classic, Kaplan references further-flung flourishes of eastern European mythology, the tyrannical Transylvanian terror scourge of the Ottoman Empire Vlad Tepes, the ferocious, flint-faced impaler! An age-old yarn of a neglected count and his no less corrupted clan of deathly pallid, blood-lusting vampires, whose quite literally ailing bloodline is in desperate need of some fresh revivifying blood! None fresher than the unborn son of estranged niece, Berta(Tina Sainz), her visit to the ancestral castle with youthfully virile husband Hans(Tony Isbert) provides the genetic boost their vilely degenerated clan craves! That said, pretty, unsullied Berta might not be quite so keen to prolong the diabolically decadent lineage of her gravely disturbed family!
Iconic slo-mo impresario Klimovsky's
deliciously doomy 'The Dracula Saga'is stylishly steeped in crepuscular Gothic
glamour, with all the dark grandeur of vintage Hammer Films, plus an
additionally erotic frisson of the perfectly pale, punishingly
pretty Helga Line! Line's exquisitely exotic beauty makes her a truly
irresistible succubus, happy to bare more than her fangs in
order to beguile her all too obliging prey! Perhaps not an especially
original 'stake' on the vampire mythos, 'The Dracula Saga' nonetheless takes a
buxom bite out of the Stoker legend with a terrifying climax that
goes straight for the jugular vein! Alongside the eternal genius
of J. Sebastian Bach, you also have the mod mood music, and ominous
organ of, Daniel J. White & A. Ramirez Angel, right on!
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