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A women is murdered in her bath by a sinister individual dressed in black. In a manor-house near the scene of the crime, Baroness Karlstein wakes up with a start. She is gravely ill and is only awaiting the arrival of her granddaughter Luisa before dying. When Luisa arrives, her grandmother tells her of the curse that has haunted the family for generations, revealing that the first Baron Karlstein was a vampire, and gives her the key to the chapel. Luisa decides to move into the manor with her uncle Baron Max Karlstein and her cousin, Karine. The only fly in the ointment is the presence of the highly intelligent caretaker, Cyril Jefferson...

This movie was more improvised than well done. It is a very curious film and also very boring. Howard Vernon, as a sort of count Dracula, is only here to justify the title of the film. His scenes are too short, just lying in his coffin, eyes open are showing off his teeth.. Fun in a way...

Britt Nichols is very beautiful as always, and her lesbian scenes with Anne Libert are the best you can get from LA FILLE DE Dracula. But, there are too many tight close-ups to really enjoy it! Some captivating unreal atmosphere kept me watching from beginning to end... But, as always with most of Jess Franco films, you must be a bit of a masochist to enjoy these piece of...cinema!

Garfield is a really bad movie. I loved the comic books, very funny. This film is not funny at all. The CGI effect are as good as it was for SCOOBI DOO, so pretty ugly to see. And the storyline...what is that? Do you call this a story? Come on, people! The movie was obviously made for the little ones, but the creators of the movie focuses on the cynism of the main character... Do they really think that a 3 year old kid can understand what the hell is going in the head of this fat cat?

Casting Breckin Meyer as Jon was also a pretty bad move too. He does not fit the role at all. As for Liz, Jennifer Love Hewitt is pretty cool to look at, despise she can't act at all. But, throughout the movie, she's very hot and wears sexy outfits that is indecent in the kind of movie! Just loved that!

No matter what you do, i'll always love you, Jennifer! What a silhouette! Garfield has some work out to do!

This movie claim to be the closest to the novel by Bram Stoker. It absolutely is not! But that doesn't matter. It has enough atmosphere and a great casting to be enjoying!

El Conde Dracula is a low-budget movie with very cheap art direction and costumes but that doesn't matter. It gives lots of charms, like (most) any other Franco movies. If you are familiar with the "Franco Cinema" you know if you can enjoy this or not because the Franco touch is all around this movie. It has also the magnificent Soledad Miranda as Lucy and the always great Christopher Lee as the sinister count!

Enough to give me a guilty pleasure of a film!