'Blacula' 1972 – William Crain.

There are some actors that aggressively take a more feral, animalistic approach to playing Bram Stoker's immortally iniquitous, genocidally gruesome, black hearted, ceaselessly thirsting, blood-gorging count, Christopher Lee, and Jack Palance spring most menacingly to mind, but the darkly imperiously performance by the toweringly charismatic William Marshall is in an exquisitely evil league all of his own! Plainly talented film-maker William Crain's iconic Drive-In cult classic, much like its undeniably majestic star William Marshall is grandiose, larger-than-life, and more than a little bit wicked! Cut from the same mouldering celluloid as the revered Roger Corman Poe cycle, William Crain's 'Blacula' insidiously reveals hidden depths of morbid interest with each fresh viewing, but along with all that honey-drippin' fangboy verbiage, 'Blacula' just remains a damn fine genre film, the cogent script fizzes appealingly with scintillatingly sardonic touches, and the doomed romance element is effectively staged, and maestro groovemeister Gene Page's frightfully funky score is a block-rocking bonanza of blood-pumping, rump-rocking grooviness, with handsome Prince Mamuwalde (William Marshall) making for a truly indelible, insanely imperious, widescreen commanding, hypnotically regal, creepily night-stalking nemesis! William Marshall's bloody fang-tastic 'Blacula' still stands uncommonly tall in the pantheon of Gothic cinema excellence!