The Dracula Saga

Count Dracula's granddaughter and her husband are invited to visit Grampa Drac and the family. She is pregnant and he wants an heir to carry on the family and their vampire ways. Funnily she does not look very pregnant until further on into the film. Set in Eastern Europe but the Spanish locations look Spanish, although these plus the costumes and interior sets do make it a rather colourful, costume movie. There are several pretty females who easily shed their clothes (breasts only, plus one male bottom), plus some cheap looking gore.Dracula does already have a male heir in the castle but years of inbreeding has produced a freak, one of the film's most memorable features. The Dracula Saga is no classic Dracula movie but to those who like Euro curiosities then it is worth a watch.

There are a lot of Dracula movies made around this time that were great . And this is not one them. This Dracula sequel unlike most Dracula sequels is not scary. It is badly written. Badly acted. It has an awful ending. Don't wast your money. Don't wast your time. Don't see this movie. It is about Dracula trying find his descendants who don't know he his a vampire. He trying to turn them into vampires. This could have been a good movie. If it was not so badly acted. So badly written and had such an awful ending. Pooh pooh, pooh pooh, pooh pooh, pooh pooh, and pee pee to. Don't see this movie. Don't see it. Don't see it Don't see it.

This movie sure is awful. Despite spending $8.99 on it, I threw it in the trash, rather than watch it again.

The first 60 minutes or so isn't totally bad. There's a few creepy chills worked up over some vampires, who sometimes work their way up to the level of almost being scary. The female ones who decided to be nude got my attention, but even that enjoyment fluttered away quickly.

Things really go downhill when we meet Dracula, living in a castle with his 'family.' Dracula doesn't like biting people anymore, apparently, and just drinks blood out of wine glasses. And you thought bargain wines from the supermarket were bad.

The ending is so darn awful it defies description. If I'd been the producer and known it would end so poorly, I never would have let one frame be shot to begin with. The lead actress was good prior to this, but not even she could make the end believable - or tolerable - for one second.

Some directors of low-budget movies realize when their script calls for things their budget can't succeed at. This ending badly needed that wisdom, along with restoring Dracula to someone who preys and bites, not some old dude who drinks wine. You can find someone like that at almost any bar. Some of them are even scarier than Dracula is here.

Boo. As in hiss, not scary boo.

The Dracula Saga is a rather ragged attempt at a costume horror movie that sadly fails on more levels than it succeeds. The story follows a young couple travelling to a remote castle in central Europe to visit the remaining family relations of the wife, who is pregnant. Along the way villagers warn them that the castle is evil, and dead bodies are found along the way with neck wounds. Nothing very original there! On arrival at the castle, all manner of strange things happen as the truth about the family background is revealed...which should come as no surprise, bearing in mind the title of the movie! There is a fair amount of nudity, with lots of female cast members removing their blouses, and some gruesome action as well, especially at the movie's climax.

Unfortunately the enjoyment of all this is hampered by some very basic shoddiness. Although Deimos Films have found a beautiful clean print, and colours are rich and clear, a lot of shots are out of focus. No amount of remastering can correct badly focused photography, and it really shows. Several shots also have a gauze-like mesh effect overlaid on them, which at first I thought was a technical issue, but in reflection it might have been a failed attempt by the director to add atmosphere. The acting is not very good, the English language dub is truly awful, and in another bizarre lapse of continuity, the heroine clearly wears different wigs in different scenes throughout the story!

I suppose this accounts for why Leon Klimovsky never made it as a big name horror director. Having a stunning authentic castle as a setting and adding lots of bare boobs does not make up for all the other budgetary and artistic shortcomings. Even European beauty Helga Line (in a minor role) is wasted here. I do love Deimos' presentation of these Euro horrors, they do very well with the quality, packaging and DVD features. This is just not one of the better movies.

Euro-cult auteur, León Klimovsky hybridizes the bloodthirsty Bram Stoker legend with an appropriately giddy screamplay by writer, Lazarus Kaplan. Along with the original classic, Kaplan references further-flung flourishes of eastern European mythology, the tyrannical Transylvanian terror scourge of the Ottoman Empire Vlad Tepes, the ferocious, flint-faced impaler! An age-old yarn of a neglected count and his no less corrupted clan of deathly pallid, blood-lusting vampires, whose quite literally ailing bloodline is in desperate need of some fresh revivifying blood! None fresher than the unborn son of estranged niece, Berta(Tina Sainz), her visit to the ancestral castle with youthfully virile husband Hans(Tony Isbert) provides the genetic boost their vilely degenerated clan craves! That said, pretty, unsullied Berta might not be quite so keen to prolong the diabolically decadent lineage of her gravely disturbed family!

Iconic slo-mo impresario Klimovsky's deliciously doomy 'The Dracula Saga'is stylishly steeped in crepuscular Gothic glamour, with all the dark grandeur of vintage Hammer Films, plus an additionally erotic frisson of the perfectly pale, punishingly pretty Helga Line! Line's exquisitely exotic beauty makes her a truly irresistible succubus, happy to bare more than her fangs in order to beguile her all too obliging prey! Perhaps not an especially original 'stake' on the vampire mythos, 'The Dracula Saga' nonetheless takes a buxom bite out of the Stoker legend with a terrifying climax that goes straight for the jugular vein! Alongside the eternal genius of J. Sebastian Bach, you also have the mod mood music, and ominous organ of, Daniel J. White & A. Ramirez Angel, right on!