El gran amor del conde Drácula (1972)

Director:

Javier Aguirre

Writers:

Javier Aguirre (writer)
Alberto S. Insúa (writer)

Release Date:

March 1974 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

She's the Kind of a Girl You Can Sink Your Teeth Into.

Plot:

Four women spend the night in an old deserted sanitarium on a mountain. They each in turn fall into...

Plot Keywords:

Lesbian Sex | Fall Down Stairs | Fall From Height | Lesbianism | Female Nudity

Cast

Paul Naschy	...	Count Dracula / Dr. Wendell Marlow
Haydée Politoff	...	Karen
Rosanna Yanni	...	Senta
Ingrid Garbo	...	Marlene
Mirta Miller	...	Elke
Víctor Alcázar	...	Imre Polvi (as Vic Winner)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Álvaro de Luna	...	Porteador
Susana Latour	...	Victim in Karen's dream - Image in Negative (as Susana Latur)
José Manuel Martín
Benito Pavón
Julia Peña	...	Peasant woman
Leandro San José
Loreta Tovar	...	Blonde victim in bed (as Loli Tovar)

Also Known As:

Cemetery Girls (USA) (reissue title)
Cemetery Tramps
Count Dracula's Great Love (USA)
Count Dracula's Greatest Love
Dracula's Great Love (USA) (promotional title)
Dracula's Virgin Lovers
The Great Love of Count Dracula
Vampire Playgirls

Runtime:

USA:85 min

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-18 | USA:PG | USA:R (edited version)

Filming Locations:

Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Company:

Janus Films

entertaining but rather lackluster Naschy outing

A broken down coach of course ends up with the stranded passengers being housed at the local Count's castle, who is of course played by Naschy, who is, of course, a vampire. And as is usual with vampires, they create OTHER vampires. So pretty soon we have a castle (or misty forest) full of beautiful vampires in their nighties, which is fine. But if you were expecting much of a story, you won't find it here. This is entertaining enough & has some good scenery, human and non, but the Sinema Diable DVD is kind of funky and has a couple blips in it that are a bit annoying, not to mention that it looks as though the aspect ratio is wrong as much of the text in the opening credits is not visible on screen, leaving it to look like this was an "ANUS FILMS" production, and who knows, it may well have been. At any rate, this is a passable if rather tame Naschy outing with a couple of moments of (I think) unintentional humor, one being where a pair of beautiful vampires leap up onto a balcony...which would have been fine by itself, but it's accompanied by the sound of a penny-whistle, or something like that, for that comic "alley oop!" sound, which was rather inappropriate if this scene was to have dramatic. Worth seeing if you're a Naschy fan, though. 6 out of 10.