Jul 6, 2020

Young Dracula (1976)


(Original Title: El jovencito Drácula ) Who will inherit the ancestral castle of Count Dracula?  The great-grandchildren of Jonathan Harker, Van Helsing and Dracula vie for ownership.




Mina Harker (Susana Estrada) and her friend Lucy (Verónica Miriel)

 It starts with Lucy stirring some caramel.

Mina takes a shower.  Oddly enough, this is the only full frontal nude scene in the movie.  So, yeah, they blow their wad right at the start.

The girls engage in a bizarre game of blindly rubbing caramel on each other (?).   


 They travel to Transylvania for the reading of the will, for the inheritance of Dracula's castle.

Also summoned to Transylvania, is scholar, Jonathan Dracula (Carlos Benpar).  His girlfriend is actually (Montserrat Prous)

 Quite the dandy.

The will is read by Hawkins (Juan Fernández); he's assisted by his wife Mariló (Marina Ferri).

Van Helsing (Mir Ferry) also stakes his claim.  The house servant is Hildegarda (Dora Santacreu)

 Renfield (Víctor Israel)

Van Helsing plots with Mariló (Marina Ferri) to get at young Dracula. This castle is the only thing missing for him to take over the entire region.

Mariló busts through Dracula's bedroom wall.  This film can be so silly (and goddamn stupid).


 She tries to temp Dracula, but he doesn't fall for it.

We do get a topless scene from Marina Ferri a bit later.

 Speaking of topless scenes - Mina Harker (Susana Estrada) gets dressed.

 Lucy is lured across the cemetery in a trance.

 She faints and is carried by this creature.

 She's laid on a slab to be sacrificed.

 Mina Harker, looking a lot different, raises her blade to kill Lucy.

 But it turns out to be just a dream.

Renfield takes Dracula to see Kresthencia (Norma Kerr

 She preps him to be a true vampire.

  
 Back at the castle...

 Dracula bites the neck of Lucy.

 This film's ending is so fucking weird and stupid.

 Lucy with Groucho Marx (Jaume Massó). WTF?

Lucy with Chico Marx  (Joaquín Navarro), who lifts up her dress, and she's wearing nothing underneath.  Again... WTF?

Dracula and Mina end up together. THE END



This film had a cool look to it, but damn the gags are just so awful.  In terms of sex appeal, they start out on the right foot with a shower scene and half-naked food fight... and then it's pretty T&A free for the rest of the film.  This wouldn't be bad if it at least had a comprehensible story and jokes that work.  It does not.

Double Feature: A much, much better Dracula comedy is The Vampire Happening (1973).


★☆

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