Dracula and Son

Original title: Dracula père et fils

1976
PG
1h 18m

IMDb RATING

5.4/10

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Parody Comedy Horror

In the 1700s, a vampire has a son from a normal woman. The mother dies, and he spends two centuries trying to teach his meek son how to be a proper vampire but no avail. Now they have to fle... Read allIn the 1700s, a vampire has a son from a normal woman. The mother dies, and he spends two centuries trying to teach his meek son how to be a proper vampire but no avail. Now they have to flee from Transylvania, and they end up in France.In the 1700s, a vampire has a son from a normal woman. The mother dies, and he spends two centuries trying to teach his meek son how to be a proper vampire but no avail. Now they have to flee from Transylvania, and they end up in France.

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IMDb RATING

5.4/10

854

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
This was the tenth and final movie in which Sir Christopher Lee played a vampire Count. Contrary to what the title implied (imposed by the producers after the film had been shot just as 'Père et fils', literally "Father and son"), not once the character was identified nor portrayed as Dracula.

Quotes
Ferdinand: If only he could have used his evil for good.

Alternate versions
Original French version ran 96 minutes. 1979 USA theatrical version (co-produced by Bob Dorian) was heavily cut (to 78 minutes), severely re-edited, and dubbed into English using joke voices and deliberately comical dialogue (similar to "What's Up Tiger Lily?")

Connections
Featured in Unlikely Roommates (2009)

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Review

Featured review

8/10

Criminally underrated French Black-Comedy blending Horror!!

If you enjoyed FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS probable will like this similar flick based in a homonymous French novel wrote by Patrick Cauvin/Claude Klotz about a comic story of Count Dracula (Christopher Lee) and his half-hybrid son Ferdinand (Bernard Menez) set in 1770 at Transylvania when he was born feeding by blood, nonetheless never bite anyone until nowadays, turns out that they are spelled from Romania, Ferdinand ends up on France and Count Dracula in England.

They meet again when Count Dracula became a famous movie star, meanwhile Ferdinand survives with immigrants on France on lowest jobs, everything going upside down when both compete for same gorgeous girl Nicole (Marie-Hélène Breillat) although by opposite proposals, Ferdinand looking for a girlfriend and Dracula for a mistress of night.

Many funniest gags are scattered along the picture, often floating in Ferdinand's character in astonishing instances like as he has to give blood, trying bit corpses at morgue or working in a slaughterhouse aiming for feeding by beef's blood, once only Ferdinand bite an animal, a fluffy cat which was a tasty snack, actually it was a Christopher Lee's Dracula departure for good, underrated black comedy.

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