Severin Films, with sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a Halloween-season treat lined up for delivery on Oct. 26 … just in time for tricks, treats and hi-def chills and thrills.
So, what is this genre-fan treasure? Severin Films has plans for a new 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack edition of writer/director Paul Morrissey’s 1974 over-the-top vampire thriller, Blood for Dracula, starring Udo Kier as Count Dracula.
You know that it is not going to be a traditional vampire film when Dracula’s annoying “assistant,” Anton (Arno Jürging, who played Otto in Morrissey’s Flesh for Frankenstein the previous year), says that Romania has become too much of a problem and they have to pack up and head to Italy (a plot device, since they were shooting the entire film in Italy). Besides, there are more virgins there … and that’s exactly what Dracula needs, the blood of a virgin.
Once in Italy, Dracula sets upon seducing each member of Marchese Di Fiore’s family (played by none other than Vittorio De Sica), but soon discovers that his sumptuous daughters, Rubinia (Stefania Casini — 1900, Suspiria) and Saphiria (Dominique Darel), are not the virgins that their mother, Marchesa (Maxime McKendry), claims them to be. Poor Dracula, as he “tastes” each one of the lovely ladies in turn, it sickens him.
This is a major disappointment for Marchesa, who is eager to marry off one or the other to the count. No problem, certainly her 14-year-old daughter, Perla (played by Silvia Dionisio, who was actually 23 at the time of the filming), would be the virgin that Count Dracula needs!!
The family servant, Mario (Joe Dallesandro — Flesh for Frankenstein, Black Moon, The Limey, Cry Baby), is wise to what Dracula is up to and decides to take matters into his own hands to make sure that Perla is no longer a virgin … and therefore no longer a source of blood for the count.
Blood for Dracula is a wild and often excessive; explicit entry into the vampire cinematic world … with an ending that is to be savored as Mario and Dracula fight to the death for the honor of the lovely Perla. It is a great finish!!
Bonus features include a whopping ten featurettes — “Trans-Human Flesh and Blood,” “Rubinia’s Homecoming,” “Blood for Udo,” “Conversation with a Vampire,” “Bloodthirsty,” “Black Cherry,” “The Blood of These Whores,” “Sad, Romantic Dracula” and “The Roman Connection.”
As an added bonus, there is a CD of the soundtrack include in the Combo Pack.
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