AMERICAN DRACULA Indian horror movie.

     A few days ago I found a movie on You Tube that reminded me of the butcher jobs of producer/director Jerry Warren. The film was was on an Indian channel and entitled AMERICAN DRACULA. The title card was in both English and Indian script.

     I soon discovered that the movie was the American 'Adult' film DRACULA SUCKS with all the nudity and sex cut completely out. 

     I guess they did not have very much film left over after taking out the adult footage so they edited into the film scenes from movie GHOULIES. Of course this movie is badly dubbed with Indian dialogue. The filmmakers also added a few songs from the 60's including SPIRIT IN THE SKY and DON'T YOU WANT SOMEBODY TO LOVE.

     There was no subtitles on the print I saw so I don't know if they addressed the fact that the film kept going back and fore from the Dracula movie which took place in the 20's and the ghoulies film which took place in the 80's. 

     The print I saw had awful color. I don't know if the film was released that way or if the person who posted it took if from a home recording. The film seems to be from a TV broadcast.

     By the way Dracula was played by adult film star Jamie Gillis who was pretty good in the role. The DRACULA SUCKS footage that this film was re cut from was fairly well made.

HUNTING FOR CHEAP MOVIES

Unlike most people I did not throw out my VHS VCR after DVDs became popular. In fact I got five of them. People gave me their old VHS machines. The best part of having five VHS players is that you can buy VHS tapes for between 50 cents to a dollar out here at the Goodwill Thrift stores. Most of the movies are mainstream Hollywood flicks but if you look around you can find something of interest in the horror and sci field. Yesterday I got the three first Alien movies and a copy of the Hammer horror film RASPUTIN starring Christopher Lee in a good change of pace role. I also got 3 tapes of the English TV series ARE YOU BEING SERVED? If you are a person with a lot of old VHS tapes and are planning to get rid of them I hope you give them to the Goodwill or some other thrift shop so that other film collectors who hung on to their old VCRs can buy them cheap. I think that would be better than throwing them out with the trash.

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935)

     Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein Monster in THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) Photo is from a frame capture from the trailer.

THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X -Trailer.

     Humphrey Bogart appeared in only one horror film and that was THE RETURN OF DR. X. He did not want to do this movie but was force to by the studio.
     You have to give Bogart credit as an actor. He tried his best in the film to make his part interesting. But he was doomed by the bad B movie level screenplay. For most of the film Bogart is playing a supporting
role. He only comes to the forefront of the film toward the end when it was too late to help the film any.
     With a better screenplay this would have been a nice change of pace role for Bogart instead of a film his fans want to forget.

BORIS KARLOFF- ONE OF THE GREAT ACTORS OF HORROR MOVIES.

      Boris Karloff was a good actor and a credit to the horror movies. The frame capture above is from a trailer for a re release of  FRANKENSTEIN(1931). His name was a box office draw. Even at the age of 80 and very sick a movie company made a deal with him to appear in four movies for them. Those movies would not have been worth watching without Karloff in them.

ATTACK OF MEN IN RUBBER SUITS

   
      Close up of one of the monster fish men from the movie THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH.

THE CATWOMEN

     Three evil kittens from the 3 D movie CAT WOMEN OF THE MOON.  I have also seen the film on local TV under the title ROCKET TO THE MOON.  Formerly  Cat women of the Moon it would say on the bottom of the screen. They did the same thing with a re release of Robot Monster. I use to see it every year at the San Diego Comic Con  under the title Monster from Mars formerly Robot Monster.