Blood of Dracula

One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed by Herbert L. Strock; Screenplay by Aben Kandel; Produced by Herman Cohen for American-International Pictures release. Photography by Monroe Askins; Edited by Robert Moore; Music by Paul Dunlap; production manager & assistant director: Austen Jewell. Starring Sandra Harrison, Louise Lewis, Jerry Blaine, Gail Ganley, Heather Ames, Malcolm Atterbury, Mary Adams, Don Devlin, Jeanne Dean and Richard Devon.

Evil Chemistry teacher at a girls' school puts one of her favorite pupils under a dangerous spell, and mystifying deaths result.

In BLOOD OF DRACULA, Nancy Perkins (Sandra Harrison) is dropped off at her new boarding school by her father and his new wife. While Nancy is busy settling in, she is unaware that science teacher, Miss Branding is working on a bizarre experiment. She's also looking for a human subject, someone who has Nancy's rather explosive temperament! Mad science and the occult merge, resulting in horror beyond all measure!

Sort of.

This movie is another lump of Limburger from AIP distribution. Much like THE SHE-CREATURE or VOODOO WOMAN, it's a story about the unleashing of the savage side of female human nature, and the hideous consequences thereof. The title comes into play in an absurd, non sequitur way.

As cinematic nonsense goes, this example is quite enjoyable. Just wait until you see Nancy's toothy transformation scene!

WARNING: This movie contains the song "Puppy Love"...

Blood of Dracula was one of my most memorable horror movies mostly because it centers on a female monster for a change.Louise Lewis is great as the mad teacher who tries to prove her theory.The makeup on the monster is a riot.It is the usual teenage horror movie with a few songs thrown in for fun.This film is typical 1950,s.Check out the ending when student-monster finally turns against teacher.It is one of the funniest,most entertaining scenes in the movie.

Yes...pretty much. It's very similar to "I Was A Teenage Werewolf." The real differences are that the protagonist is a female and of course the monster is a vampire instead of a werewolf. It's got pretty much the same ingredients: Teens, bad rock songs ( I personally think the songs are great ),hypnotism, monsters. Features a great opening scene and a cool graveyard attack set. I don't understand why this film is often pushed aside and seldom mentioned. Maybe it just needed to be called "I Was a Teenage Vampire." I think the atmosphere is pretty solid and I enjoy this picture enough to rate it an 8...yes an 8. Check it out.

Don't be surprised if this DRACULA version made in the late fifties includes some teenagers elements. It is obviously destined to drive in audiences, young men and women kissing each other aboard their parents cars whilst the movie appeared on screen.... It is not that bad, because directed by Herbert Strock, a little horror master from this period, besides Gene Fowler Jr and William Castle. This is an agreeable horror film, one of the first evoking Halloween twenty years before John Carpenter's most known movie. Acting is pretty surprisingly good for this kind of B feature and the photography also excellent. But please, don't take it too seriously and you'll enjoy it. Excellent ending too, rather surprising. I love that.