Review – Blood of Dracula (1957)

This thing’s got almost no blood and even less Dracula (unless you count the fact that some of the characters refer to vampires as “Draculas”). Instead what we get is the bizarre tale of a rebellious teenage girl who gets sent to a boarding school. There she falls under the hypnotic influence of a twisted chemistry teacher who tries some kind of bizarre mind control experiment on her. As a result she’s transformed into a bloodsucking fiend, and things go downhill from there. The script and acting are awful in equal measures, making this play out like an old John Waters movie (only Waters was parodying productions like this, whereas I’m pretty sure these folks are serious). It also sports a parade of JD movie clichés, including a dreadful musical number. Though film students in the 1950s might have been able to consult this production as an example of how not to make a movie, by now even that small value is gone, making this little more than a relic of an age that has fortunately passed away. See if desperate