Daughter of Dracula

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!

Jess Franco's Dracula's Daughter is a bit of a combination of genre styles that were popular in 1972. Its part lesbian vampire film, part giallo and part sexploitation. In fairness it isn't all that successful in any of those sub-genres. The reason I guess is a common one when it comes to Franco and that's that it seems to have been knocked together too quickly for its own good. You can't help but think that there's the basis of a decent film here but it ultimately doesn't add up to a great deal.

The vampire part of the story is never developed very clearly and there aren't any actual scary horror moments. In fact poor Howard Vernon plays Count Dracula but never even gets to get out of his coffin. I haven't really got any good idea why this is so but that's just the way it is. Similarly, the giallo thread is sort of there but at no point does Franco go to the trouble of generating any actual suspense (does he ever?) so it really doesn't add an awful lot and ultimately promises more than it delivers. While from a sexploitation perspective I can't say it was too erotic, the titillation is strictly forgettable. Sometimes Franco really needs a great leading lady like Soledad Miranda to make this kind of stuff work but he doesn't have anyone of that high calibre here unfortunately.

It's not a complete wash out though. There is some decent photography at times, and the locations are pretty nice. While the typical Franco weirdness is always sort of interesting to watch. This is not one of his better films. Having said that it sure isn't one of his worst either. I guess ultimately it's one that can only really be recommended to Franco fans; for everyone else, enter at your own risk.

This is a Dracula sequel and it is very scary. If this film does not scary you know movie will. This movie has great acting. It also has a great story line. It also has great special effects. It also has great acting. It very scary. If you get a come a cross it see it. It is very scary. Britt Nichols is a great actress. Dracula (March 1931) is better. But still this is good horror movie. One of the scariest movies from the 70's. You will not want to see it alone. Dracula (1992) is better. This does not have same story line has Dracula's Daughter from 1936. Dracula's Daughter (1936) is better. This is a very scary movie. This movie is a must see.

Some actresses are able to somewhat save some bad movies with their mesmerizing beauty, but this lesbian soft-porn, clumsily masked as horror about Dracula, is so bad that it couldn't be saved even by sex scene between Jessica Alba and Charlize Theron. I could get over the fact that vampires in the movie don't have any issues with daylight, but if somebody told me that a scene in which camera slides down the naked body of a beautiful woman could be boring I would think he's crazy. If you are a fan of horror, Dracula or good soft-porn, avoid this misery in a wide arc, but if you want to watch five minutes of to blur zoomed tongue and a nipple this is the right movie for you.

3/10

French language erotic horror, filmed in Portugal by prolific Spanish director Jess Franco. He wastes no time in getting down to his trademark female, full frontal nudity, we are treated to this within the first few minutes. And there is plenty more throughout the movie, this is more erotic than horror, in fact the latter is pretty lame. Howard Vernon appears as one of the most pointless Draculas ever, I don't recall him even leaving his coffin! He looks very camp, more spoof than scary. We also get a mysterious, unknown character, a voyeur, giving the movie a confusing touch of giallo. But it's not all bad. The sex scenes are well filmed, in particular one that has two beautiful women making lesbian love whilst a man plays piano in another room in the house. The sets and scenery are good, this movie is easy on the eye, and Franco himself plays one of the main characters. Despite a somewhat confusing (probably rushed) plot and a very abrupt ending as a Franco fan I found some pleasure in this one, certainly not his best film but far better than his worst.