Count Sergio Subotai (Guillermo Murray) has a major beef with the Colman family, his ancestor having been staked by Julius Colman 300 years ago. Now Subotai only has three more Colmans to destroy, Señor Colman (José Baviera) and his two pretty nieces, Mirta (Silvia Fournier) and Leonor (Erna Martha Bauman). Pianist Rodolfo Sabre believes that music is the key to destroying the vampires...
The World of the Vampires is another Mexican vampire chiller (El mundo de los vampiros) dubbed into English by American movie maverick K. Gordon Murray. The film is a mix of the conventional -- rubber vampire bats, cobwebby catacombs, a hunchback assistant -- and the unusual -- there are strange vampire/werewolf hybrids, we get a bat with a human face, and the head vampire controls his army of the undead with music (played on an organ made from bones and skulls -- a Bonetempi, perhaps), but can also be repelled by the playing of certain tunes.
Unfortunately, for all of the film's more unique qualities. It's still a fairly humdrum affair, directed with little energy or verve by Alfonso Corona Blake, with verbose vampire Subotai seemingly attempting to bore his victims to death by incessantly talking to them.
3.5/10, rounded up to 4 for Rudolfo's 'Viennese fleas' joke, a sure-fire hit with the ladies, and for the pit full of sharp wooden stakes in the Count's lair, probably not the wisest thing for a vampire to have installed in his home!
