Must See Movie...

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This is by far not the worst vampire or Dracula movie on the market but it is nowhere near the best - it's middle ground at best. It's not a film I would recommend to vampire and horror movie fans but it is not one I would say it's just so awful that you should stay clear of - I'll tell you it's so-so or okay.John Carradine had a fairly decent role as George - the butler. He got ample screen time which I really like. The character George is the butler and caretaker of Count Dracula aka Count Townsend and his Countess. George was saved by the Count from hanging and is forever the Count's loyal servant.The Count and his bride has come across a newer, less vile way to drink the blood of their victims - which they prefer. The young women being held hostage are drained via needle so the Count and his bride drink the blood as human drink wine.There is a very violent criminal named Johnny who escapes prison and runs to see his old "pal" George and the Count. He joins them in helping to get fresh blood (victims) for the Count and his bride.The is also a very strange man in the castle that helps the Count named Mango. He is there to help make sacrifices to the evil God Luna.Enter Glen and Liz enter, the story becomes kinda boring and draggy but they will "save the day".Overall an OK watch - not a film that is memorable, impressionable but kinda campy fun in its way.5/10

Photographer Glen Cannon (amiable Gene Otis Shayne) and model Liz Arden (gorgeous brunette hottie Jennifer Bishop) are a young couple who inherit an old castle. They discover much to their horror that the place is already inhabited by crazy butler George (the ubiquitous John Carrandine in peak gloriously cranky form), classy vampire couple Count Dracula (suave Alexander D'Arcy) and Countess Townsend (elegant Paula Raymond), escaped lunatic Johnny (an amusingly unhinged portrayal by Robert Dix), who's really a werewolf (!); and grunting simpleton hunchback Mango (hulking behemoth Ray Young), who kidnaps young gals for the monsters to sacrifice so they can all live forever. Boy, does this hysterically cruddy clinker possess all the right wrong stuff to qualify as a real four-star stinkeroonie: the hopelessly ham-fisted (mis)directed by the notorious Al Adamson, a seriously confused and meandering narrative, the hilariously atrocious acting, a talky script, the rusty tin-eared dialogue ("I Love you dearly, dear"), the complete absence of any tension and creepy atmosphere, a plodding place, the tacky (far from) special effects, the roaring stock film library score, the clumsy attempts at humor, and the limply staged less-than-thrilling grand finale all give this perfectly putrid picture a certain endearingly kitschy charm. Laszlo Kovacs' vibrant color cinematography makes this movie look much better than it deserves. The groovy opening credits theme song "The Next Train Out" hits the swinging spot. A real schlocky hoot.

Very low-budget horror film directed by Al Adamson. This familiar story revolves around a playboy photographer Glen Cannon(Gene O'Shane),who inherits a castle in the middle of a California desert. When he and his photogenic fiancée Liz(Barbara Bishop)travel to claim the property, they find the current residents are Count Charles Townsend(Alexander D'Arcy), alias Count Dracula and his vampire bride(Paula Raymond). As Glen and Liz spend the night they realize something is amiss...abducted teenage girls chained in the dungeon in order to provide sustenance for the Count and Countess. Veteran actor John Carradine plays George the butler. A bit eerie. but very little gore or scares. Also in the cast: Robert Dix, Ray Young and Vicki Volante.

Considered the worst vampire movie ever made by many (nah!), this Al Adamson bomb is nonetheless chock full of laughs and tacky entertainment value. Mr. and Mrs. Dracula (Egyptian born schlock star Alexander D'Arcy and Paula Raymond) disguise themselves as the Count and Countess Townsend and are living it up in Falcon Rock; RENTING a secluded castle located in the middle of what appears to be a desert (a great place to avoid the sunlight, eh?). The castle comes complete with the usuals... lavish rooms, coffin-filled bedroom chamber, candles, a large dungeon, a pool table (?!) and two faithful employees who have to do ALL the dirty work as the bloodsucking duo lounge around spouting their insipid dialog. The two servants are a hulking, facially-scarred, hunchback retard named Mango (Ray Young) and a slack-eyed butler named George (John Carradine), who worships the "great God Luna." Mango kidnaps beautiful girls (because, of course, the blood of 'beautiful young women' always tastes the best), takes them to the dungeon and chains them to the wall as a sort-of personal live-in blood bank. George uses a huge syringe to extract blood from victims and serves it up as cocktails to Dracula and wife.The most recent addition to the harem is Ann (Vicki Volante, a star of many other Adamson movies), who has a bad habit of passing out whenever the going gets tough... a problem that got her dumb ass abducted in the first damn place. She screams her head off when a rat gets within ten feet of her, has a tarantula crawl on her dress and may end up being the chief sacrifice to Carradine's Moon Cult (yes, there is also some kind of black magic mumbo jumbo going on here). There are a few other prisoners as well; two or three other ladies in ripped-up dresses whose expressions never change despite what is going on around them. When one of those ladies is all used up, Mango is given permission to drag her off into a dark corner of the dungeon (hmm... For what, I wonder?) This comfy living situation is threatened when the owner of the castle dies, leaving the place to a favorite nephew (Gene O'Shane), who wants to boot them out and move in there with his fast-track fiancé Liz Arden (Barbara Bishop). Liz is a model and aspiring "Universal Magazine" cover girl, who will end up having more problems to deal with than being upstaged in her saggy bikini bottoms by dolphins, seals and a flipper-chewing walrus while at Sea World.And as if that isn't enough... There's this family friend named Johnny Davenport (Robert Dix), who has just bought his way out of prison. Get this... A guard accepts five thousand dollars to let Johnny out. But to make it look more convincing, the guard actually turns around and allows this convicted mass murderer to knock him unconscious! So, not surprisingly, instead of just laying him out, Johnny just beats the guy to death before taking off! BEFORE even making it to the castle, Johnny has a fun-filled day of murder and mayhem. He's chased by a posse with dogs, drowns a woman in a polka-dot bikini under a waterfall, bashes an old man over the head with a rock, shoots a hitchhiker in the face with a rifle and wrecks a stolen car over a cliff. And all this before he even arrives in the castle. There is mention of Johnny being a werewolf, but there are no make-up effects to convey it.When Liz and Glen arrive at the castle, they sleep in separate bedrooms. And when she hears one of the women downstairs screaming, he comforts her by saying "I think it's probably someone using an electric tooth brush that just got short circuited." (??) After an encounter with Mango, the two find themselves prisoners in the dungeon as well, but they manage to escape after being forced to perform in a black magic ceremony. During a struggle with Johnny over the gun, Glen aims the gun way off target, but ends up pulling the trigger and shooting Johnny in the stomach. Carradine falls down a flight of stairs and attacks with a whip. Will Liz, Glen and the imprisoned lovelies escape with their lives? Does this entire film seem like an odd extended dirty metaphor for the joys of S&M? Also in the cast are future director John "Bud" Cardos (who was also the production manager) and Ken/Kenny/Kent Osborne (who also did the make-up). It was shot by "Leslie" (Lazslo) Kovacs, who also worked with Ray Dennis Steckler before becoming a respected Hollywood cinematographer, so you know this movie looks pretty good. Gil Bernal performs the non-hit single "The Next Train Out." I've seen the production year on this film frequently listed as 1967, but according to the original credits it is 1969.Not the "worst vampire movie ever made..." It's Grade A schlock! But going by the rules of normal film review, I am unable to award this one any better than 3/10. General entertainment value is around 7/10.