Dracula Sucks

Director - Philip Marshak (Night Train of Terror)
Starring - Jamie Gillis (Die You Zombie Bastards!), Annette Haven (Honky Tonk Angels), and John Leslie (Anal Assassins)
Release Date - 1978
Genre - Horror/Erotic
Tagline - "This time the count is not just going for the throat"
Format - DVD (Personal Collection) (Screener)

Rating (out of 5):

     Horror porn.  It is real and it has existed for decades rising to popularity in the late 1960s and coming into maturity in the 70s with films like Mad Love Life of a Hot Vampire, Peeping Tom, and the popular Dracula Sucks also known as Lust at First Bite.  Over the last two years I have reviewed a few horror porn flicks mostly the works from Burning Angel but I have always wanted to see Dracula Sucks.  A few weeks back I heard that Vinegar Syndrome was releasing the film in a new 2 disc set.  This was my chance to check it out.  I reached out to Vin Syn and they were nice enough to hook me up with a copy along with one of the films I previously mentioned which also features Dracula.  This turned into a Dracula marathon here at the house with two of the films being X-rated.
     The film opens with a woman bringing her son to a castle that is also a sanitarium.  Her son, Renfield, is a mad man that finds the coffin of Dracula and pulls the stake from his heart.  He is then resurrected and Renfield is forced to do his bidding.  Dracula then goes on a blood thirsty rampage biting the patients in the sanitarium.  Once they are bitten they immediately turn into sex fiends biting and fucking everyone they come in contact with.  These actions draw the attention of vampire hunter Van Helsing who arrives and the two begin to butt heads until Dracula and his true intentions are revealed.
     Horror porn can be entertaining if you can get past all the weird sex scenes that tries to keep in theme of the films.  Though Burning Angel was able to give the viewer a fun film they typically went overboard with the sex scenes and made them disgusting with the fake vomit and gore.  If I am going to watch a horror porn I want the sex to be clean and not covered in vomit.  Anyway, I knew Dracula Sucks would be nothing like the horror porn I had seen before with Burning Angel and I was right.  The film was actually pretty damn enjoyable and a great adaption of Stoker's work.  The acting in this film is actually pretty damn enjoyable especially the performance from Reggie Nalder who played Van Helsing and Richard Bulik who played Renfield.  Nalder has been in several classic horror films like The Bird With the Crystal Plumage and Salem's Lot so his talent has been seen in horror before.  The remainder of the cast still did a great job but that is apart from all the sex scenes which will go unjudged in this review.  The story for this one is a great and comical adaption of the great Bram Stoker tale.  The film flows like a serious and traditional Dracula flick only to make the kill scenes comedic with the horny vampire bit.  This was fun and added a lot humor to the film.  Finally, the film does not have real on screen kills or special effects.  The object of this film is to be sexy and not scare the viewer.  Though the film may not be as sexy as they would have liked it was still pretty damn enjoyable.  Overall, Dracula Sucks is a great film once you get past all the sex scenes.  The film is a real enjoyable Dracula adaption that should be seen by any fan.  Check it out!