Blood of Dracula (1957) User Reviews (50)

Should have been called "I was a teenage vampire"

[babeth_jr · 6/10 · 29 November 2008]

For the life of me I can't figure out why the title of this movie wasn't "I was a Teenage Dracula". It was made by the same studio, American International Pictures, that created the wonderful teen 50's horror movies "I was a Teenage Werewolf" and "I was a Teenage Frankenstein".

Sandra Harrison plays Nancy Perkins, a young woman who is dumped off at a boarding school for girls by her inattentive father who has remarried a young blonde gold digger just six weeks after his first wife's death. Needless to say, Nancy is not happy about this situation at all and she has a lot of anger about having to leave her previous school and her boyfriend, Glen.

Louise Lewis portrays the controlling science teacher who under hypnosis turns the vulnerable Nancy into a vampire for reasons that I couldn't understand, some bizarre theory about proving how the evil in the human race is stronger than the atom bomb...I didn't get it, but the movie is still a lot of fun. A lot of the comments here seem to hint at a lesbian relationship between the crazy science teacher and some of her students, but I didn't see that at all.

This movie is typical of it's time in the fact that it has to have a really corny "rock and roll" number and this one, "Puppy Love" has to be heard to be believed. It has to be a joke, I don't think anybody can listen to it without laughing, it's that bad.

I love all of American International Pictures 1950's horror movies, but I can honestly say that this one is my favorite, even though it is not as well known. If you haven't seen this one, check it out. There is creepy vampire make up, two killings in a spooky old cemetery and the corny "Puppy Love" song and dance number. You'll enjoy it!!!

Decent Teen Monster Movie

[tomjeffrey2001 · 6/10 · 9 August 2009]

I agree with some of the other reviewers about the title of this film. If you're going to make a "Dracula" movie without the character of Dracula and with a teenager (or young adult) in the title role, then why not just call it "I Was a Teenage Dracula"? Particularly if the writer is the same man who co-wrote "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" and "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein" and the director was also at the helm of "Teenage Frankenstein."

The plot is quite similar to that of "Teenage Werewolf." Troubled teen is transformed into monster by mad doctor using hypnosis. I first saw this movie the year it was released. I thought it was very scary and the vampire make-up was pretty cool. After seeing it again years later on television from the perspective of a middle-aged man rather than a ten-year-old boy, it seemed less scary than before but I still thought Sandra Harrison looked pretty cool as the vampire. If you enjoyed American International's other teenage monsters, then check this one out if you can find it.

bloodsucking sorority gals on the rampage! Who can resist?

[funkyfry · 6/10 · 4 October 2002]

Fairly amusing film about a girl in a reform school who's hypnotically turned into a vampire and sets out to kill a few classmates. Interestingly, this film reverses many horror movie cliches by making the young attractive heroine the monster herself. Some imaginative sequences, hokey dialogue with pretty good photography. Not as good as the more famous "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" or the much better "How to Make a Monster", but well worth watching for fans of drive in fun.

"We Can Make Life Awfully Miserable For Oddballs!"...

[azathothpwiggins · 30 December 2019]

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"...

The sleep of reason produces monsters at Sherwood School for Girls

[mlraymond · 5/10 · 3 June 2008]

This low budget 1957 monster movie is typical of the drive-in fare produced by AIP in the late Fifties to attract the teenage audience. It's a moody, low key story with some nice atmosphere, about a teenage girl embittered by her father re-marrying shortly after her mother's death, and dumping his daughter in a private school at the request of his new wife.

The new student makes a good impression on the leader of the secret clique that runs things behind the lines, who advises her chemistry teacher mentor that they've found the ideal subject for the teacher's secret project, a girl filled with barely suppressed anger and violence.

Many viewers have commented on the lesbian subtext of the teacher's relationships with Myra, the clique leader, and Nancy, the new girl. Louise Lewis gives probably the best performance of the movie as the feminist scholar determined to prove her thesis to a " world run by men for men". She strikes just the right note as the sinister scientist with a benign exterior, seeming only to want to be a helpful mentor to the girl, polite and efficient with the school dean, spouting her lunatic ideas with reasonable sounding phrases about progress and science.

Some night time scenes of terror on the darkened grounds of the school are very effective, and the acting is fairly good. As usual for a Fifties AIP movie, there are lots of pretty girls to look at, some rock and roll music and dancing, and a subversive undertone in which virtually all adults are suspect in their motives.

The movie isn't as dynamic as I Was a Teenage Werewolf, from which it's obviously derived, but it works pretty well on its own terms as a spooky little thriller. Definitely worth seeing for Fifties horror movie buffs.

I Was a Teenage Vampire

[kevinolzak · 4/10 · 4 April 2019]

1957's "Blood of Dracula" from AIP producer Herman Cohen cashed in on the success of Michael Landon's "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" with a simple gender reversal of both Landon and Universal's "The Mad Ghoul." Previous credits at Realart (Lon Chaney's "The Bushwhackers" and "Battles of Chief Pontiac," plus "Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla"), Allied Artists ("Target Earth"), and United Artists (Abbott and Costello's "Dance With Me, Henry") led to Cohen's arrival at American International, where the youthful slant on a supernatural favorite led to a similar double bill pairing this picture with "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein," shot a month later. It's a shame that Cohen decided to use this title since there is no Dracula, it's not "Dracula's Daughter" nor even a male vampire; instead of a mad scientist using a moody teenager for experiments on regression (Bridey Murphy again), we have a female chemistry teacher taking advantage of a troubled girl student. Louise Lewis had played the school principal in "Teenage Werewolf" (as well as an unbilled part in John Beal's "The Vampire"), here second billed as Miss Branding, whose fanatical thesis has rightly been rejected by the male dominated scientific community, that each individual has a greater capacity for destruction than any 'A' bomb if the right techniques are used. Enter Nancy Perkins (Sandra Harrison), latest arrival at the Sherwood boarding school for girls, still grieving for the mother who died only six weeks before, and dismissive of her father's sudden decision to remarry. She is not as short tempered as Michael Landon's character, quite a sympathetic figure, especially after the other girls in her dormitory trample over her the first night. Nancy is bright and quick to be accepted (she chose not to snitch), but under the hypnotic influence of Miss Branding undergoes a physical transformation and incurable thirst for blood. The old bat brandishes an amulet from the Carpathian Mountains, which can either heal or destroy depending on its use, and guess which one is selected? The result is a wild hairy creature with pointed ears similar to Max Schreck's "Nosferatu," certainly making for a decent poster. Luckily, the lone male victim (Jerry Blaine from "Teenage Werewolf") is the dimwit who belts out the picture's embarrassing teen dance number, while the perfunctory police investigation only eats up time and goes nowhere, the one officer who suggests a vampire on the loose rapidly denounced as a crackpot (we at least get a mention of Transylvania). Despite Sandra Harrison's affecting performance she never went on to any prominence, director Herbert L. Strock asserting that the actress already considered herself a star. Among the cops we see Malcolm Atterbury (back from "Teenage Werewolf") and Richard Devon ("The Undead," "War of the Satellites"), but the picture is half over before the first killing, with little enough action as it is, one other attack claiming two victims before the predictable climax. One gorgeous student who disappears all too quickly is raven haired Barbara Wilson, soon to star in "Terror in the Midnight Sun," later reworked by director Jerry Warren into the John Carradine vehicle "Invasion of the Animal People," who also supplied the memorable opening sequence of Martin Kosleck's "The Flesh Eaters."

I Was A Teenage Dracula?

[evilskip · 2/10 · 25 August 1999]

Well to start off Dracula doesn't have a thing to do with this movie.However Teenage Dracula would have been a cool title.The producer, Herman Cohen was 27 when he did this one.He also did Teenage Frankenstein and I Was A Teenage Werewolf. He went to this particular well once too often as this pales against the others.

Six weeks after her mother dies a girl's father remarries a blonde bimbo. Stepmom has the kid sent off to a school for girls.She doesn't really fit in.As usual there is a teacher that hypnotizes her for some ludicrous theory of supernatural power for the benefit of mankind.Well the girl turns into a vampire. She has pointy ears, a widow's peak,pasty face,pointy teeth and a pointier sweater.(Hmm, I think I went out with her in college).Actually the vampiric makeup is quit effective and no doubt caused a few chills in a drive in in 1957.The killings begin and as usual the police are baffled.

At one point there is an impromptu pajama party crashed by some boys. One of them sings a horrible song called Puppy Love. Somebody rip his throat out now!Please!This has to be one of the worst rock and roll numbers done in a 50's horror film.(John Ashley comes close in "How To Make A Monster").

There is a lesbian undertone in the relationship between the science teacher and one of her other students. The student certainly worships the ground her teacher walks on.Pretty risque for 1957 or I'm just being dirty minded.

This movie covers no new territory as it careens to the conclusion.Well, it shouldn't.This is a 68 minute timewaster good only for laughs if taken into proper perspective. It is a nice example of trashy drive in cinema.

We get the standard 1950's line about things best not meddled with.This movie may be one of them. Give it a 2 and a half for make up and the lead performance.

Boring and pretty silly

[preppy-3 · 2/10 · 3 November 2006]

Nancy (Sandra Harrison) is an angry young girl who's sent, against her will, to a private boarding school. There she falls under the eye of the science teacher (Louise Lewis) who needs her anger to show how anger can control the world, not weapons. (No, I don't understand it either) She hypnotizes Nancy and, somehow, can turn her into a vampire who attacks and kills...

As you can see this is pretty silly stuff. The plot makes no sense with plot holes left and right. The acting is OK (Lewis come off best) and, like other AIP pictures, the film comes to a screeching halt when some guy named Tab (Jerry Blaine) sings some dumb song called "Puppy Love". The "dancing" in this one has to be seen to be believed. The only somewhat interesting thing in this is an(implied) lesbian link between Harrison and Lewis.

This gets a 2 only because of the makeup job done on Harrison when she becomes a vampire. Pointed ears and eyes, hysterically long fangs and claws and a white streak running through her hair! Supposedly Harrison begged producer Herman Cohen for this role--he said, after she got it, she acted like Joan Crawford! Also, many years later, this was shown at the NY Museum of Modern Art--Harrison actually called them and asked them to please not show it. That should tell you something. B-movie fans and kids might like this but others beware!

This movie is a subtext-fest!

[HpyCmpr155 · 5/10 · 27 February 2010]

Let's see...a mad female science teacher spouting her twisted ideas in a secluded girls' boarding school? She "seduces" her innocent young students with her pseudo-scientific rants, waves her amulet and turns them into a blood-sucking vampires. They are doing her bidding, murdering fellow students and following her directions with total devotion? You are practically beaten over the head with the subtext in this movie and if you don't see it, you must be blind. It is great fun (if you can sit through the transformation scenes). A B-movie? For sure? But with the subtext, it was treading on interesting ground for 1957. It is a classic and if you take the subtext into consideration it is one of the best and most entertaining of the 50's B horror genre.

Creature Feature

[BumpyRide · 7/10 · 1 December 2005]

I haven't seen this movie in at least 25 years but I still remember how fun it was to watch. The headmistress of this school for girls, takes an interest in one the girls and starts to give her private lessons. First she hypnotizes the girl with a big brooch that she always wears and then somehow turns her into a blood sucking vampire! I'm sure she must whip up some instant vampire potion along the way. It's great fun but it's not one of those movies that are so bad, they're good, this is pretty good and entertaining. It's along the lines of "I Was A Teenage Werewolve." Some creepy music, but no real scary moments. Just a fun 1950's drive-in double feature flick.

Average Teen/Monster film

[vtcavuoto · 5/10 · 21 October 2008]

"Blood of Dracula" isn't the best American International Pictures films but is OK. The formula that produced cult hits as "I was a Teenage Werewolf", "I was a Teenage Frankenstein" and "How to make a Monster" is the same: take a troubled youth, add some horror elements and serve it up at the Drive-In. A girl is brought to a boarding school and falls under the spell of crazed science instructor. She becomes a Vampire when summoned. The attacks aren't that frightening and the acting only passable.These movies are fun to watch though and the low-budget does add to the cheesy factor. This is a good movie to catch once if you're a Vampire movie fan like myself. The three movies I mentioned earlier were far superior in every way and not to be missed by horror movie fans.

Pretty Much Just as good as AIP's other teenage horrors

[xdjangox · 8/10 · 30 April 2001]

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.

Almost a hidden gem

[BrandtSponseller · 7/10 · 11 November 2006]

This is a vampire film, but it's probably not a good idea to check it out for that reason alone, as the vampire material takes up relatively little screen time, it's probably some of the weakest material in the film, it's relatively passionless, bloodless and free of violence, and it often verges on the ridiculous, partially due to Phillip Sheer's "Halloween kit"-styled make-up, which is surprising, given that Sheer did the make-up for I Was a Teenage Werewolf, I Was a Teenage Frankenstein and How to Make a Monster, which are all far more impressive.

But this Herbert L. Stock vehicle (Stock also directed I Was a Teenage Frankenstein and How to Make a Monster) isn't at all a bad film. It's better to think of it as a fairly twisted girls school tale. As an amusingly and darkly caricatured study of interpersonal and social dynamics, the unfortunately titled Blood of Dracula is almost a hidden gem.

Nancy Perkins' (Sandra Harrison) mom has just passed away, and a mere six weeks later her father has remarried presumably a younger wife, and they're sending Nancy off to a boarding school to get rid of her for a while. Understandably, Nancy isn't too happy with this, but more than that, while the family is driving to the boarding school during the opening scene, Nancy grabs the wheel and tries to send the whole family plummeting to their deaths off the side of a cliff. She's a passive-aggressive on megadoses of steroids.

While she's at the school, she learns the hard way of the gang mentality of her fellow students. There are also unusual relationships with teachers and administrators, including some fairly-heavy-for-1957 lesbianism subtexts. Another element that's a bit unusual for 1957 is the fact that the entire girl "gang" of Nancy's dorm is taking turns dating the school groundskeeper/maintenance-man, with one of them even secretly engaged to him, and okay with him sleeping around, as long as he cuts his dates short to make it back to her.

The chemistry teacher, Miss Branding (Louise Lewis), who is the pivot of much of the lesbianism subtext, is an amusingly absurdly twisted megalomaniac--there are some wonderful "did she actually say that?" speeches--and something like a witch; she's the fuel for the vampirism that occurs. Even more interesting and very subtle and surprising, the headmistress of the school seems to be aware of most of these facts at the end of the film.

This is unashamedly a B movie from the 1950s, and there's even an obligatory party scene with a character singing a swingin' song called "Puppy Love". If you watch it expecting that and not expecting intense vampire material (although Stock does give us a couple Lugosi-styled googly-eyes shots, if you think that's intense), you should find enough to enjoy here.

Dracula would disown this one

[bkoganbing · 2/10 · 13 June 2015]

One thing I will say about Blood Of Dracula. It revives the tradition that was reserved for B westerns in that the title has nothing to do with the famous Transylvanian Vampire Count. Other than to say that the murders committed in this film are said to be Dracula like, Dracula has nothing to do with the film. I guess American International Pictures thought that the count's name would bring in some box office.

Well if you're expecting Bela Lugosi or Christopher Lee pass this right on by. This concerns some chilling murders that occur in and around Mary Adams's school for girls. In this case we have a woman mad scientist in Louise Lewis and she's conducting experiments involving an impressionable young teen played by Sandra Harrison. A little hypnosis and Harrison reverts to the primitive which includes turning into a girl werewolf replete with fangs and sucking the blood dry out of those she kills. It's all a puzzle to the homicide cop Malcolm Atterbury.

In the worst of science fiction films the scientist is always saying that this is all for the benefit of humankind. Even female scientists are saying that. How turning a young teen girl into a primitive homicidal maniac is beyond me.

This film is one camp hoot with cheap cinematography, no production values and players delivering their lines in anticipation of their checks clearing. Let's hope they got paid for this drivel.

good nostalgic 50,s B movie

[phlflip · 4 July 2001]

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.

no blood or Dracula for that matter

[HEFILM · 3/10 · 5 June 2006]

There is a sort of dance party, that's fun as are some of the usual "innocent" 50's kids talking crazy stuff. But most of these elements, though they add a bit of charm, can be found in much more entertaining movies. It's just that so little happens, it's like a film made years earlier. Should have really been called Teenage Vampire or something of the sort, but wow it's pretty dull.

Concept is fun but the "terror" is so far from center stage. Decently produced but an off day for the creative staff--feels like everyone went home early no matter how short the shoot was.

You'll need lots of strong 1950's coffee to get through this one even at the scant running time it feels padded. Twilight Zone length would have helped, though those episodes probably had the same budget as this feature.

If you like 50's American horror stuff, and I do, then you'll sit through it and be amused mostly by the dancing and the hypnotic and vampire ideas that aren't really worked out or shown much at all. For those who want to say they have seen everything, for the rest...well...

Ignore the Christopher Lee image--this is NOT a Dracula film and he is NOT in this film!

[planktonrules · 2/10 · 19 August 2007]

Despite the title and the image IMDb is currently posting along with this movie, this is really not a Dracula film and Christopher Lee is not in it. Instead, it's a very, very low-budget and dopey movie about a girls school where a rather bizarre relationship develops between a crazy teacher and an impressionable student. It turns out that this teacher has some bizarre masters thesis involving,...well, I really have no idea what it was about and her turning this female student into a part-time vampire made absolutely no sense. The teacher said something about doing this will "save mankind" and other crap like that, but how could turning a girl into something that looks like the love child of Lily Munster and Nosferatu help mankind--especially when it starts sucking the blood out of people??!! Oddly, although the film was made in the more conservative 1950s, there is a very strong and noticeable undercurrent of Lesbianism. There is a strong sexual chemistry between the female teacher and her female student. This makes the film a real curio, but unfortunately the plot, acting and direction are all very amateurish and it is not a film I would recommend to anyone but bad movie fans. Strictly grade-Z all the way and a not particularly good variation on I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF.

Lackluster monster movie

[drystyx · 3/10 · 26 September 2021]

3/10 is my rating for "forgettable" and "lackluster" movies. They're not depressing enough to be lower, but can't be higher than 3/10.

That's what this monster movie is. It's mostly disjointed and confusing. So confusing, in fact, that we have to remind ourselves that the monster is a vampire.

A tough girl is admitted to an all girl school, where the bullies find she fits in quite well, and where a lunatic woman on the staff turns this girl into a monster that turns off and on, more like the werewolf than the vampire.

Pretty corny, and kind of dull, to be honest.

No Dracula Here.

[AaronCapenBanner · 3/10 · 30 October 2013]

Herbert L. Strock directed this film, another hybrid horror and juvenile delinquency yarn that stars Sandra Harrison as Nancy Perkins, a troubled teenager who is sent to live in an all-girl boarding school by her parents. She then meets evil Miss Branding(played by Louise Lewis) a professor who uses hypnosis and a medallion(Dracula's?) to control her, which results in Nancy becoming a murderous(and ugly) vampire, terrorizing the campus, and some visiting boyfriends of the girls... Silly film with a vague plot has no originality at all, and few scares, though the makeup is striking. Part of the "Teenage" monster fad of this time.

I was a Teenage Dracula

[JPfanatic93 · 4/10 · 22 September 2013]

Beware! Misleading title here! This movie has nothing to do with the Dracula character in whatever incarnation, despite some semi-vampiric presence in the plot. A better title would have been 'I was a Teenage Dracula', considering this was produced by the same company behind I was a Teenage Werewolf, also released in 1957, to which it bears more than just a coincidental resemblance story wise as it tells of a troubled teenage girl (Sandra Harrison) dumped at a boarding school by her father, who finds herself subjected to hypnotic experiments by the evil headmistress (Louise Lewis), that turn her into a vampire at her behest. This results in a few suspenseless murders here and there and a dull subplot about police investigators trying to find out what's going on. This movie was released as a double bill for drive-ins with I was a Teenage Frankenstein. Production company American International Pictures (AIP) was responsible for many a lousy B-movie in the latter half of the fifties (many of them with overly grandiose, incorrect and thus irresponsible titles): though this flick is far from good, it's by no means the worst of this extensive bunch.

Strange happenings at the boarding school

[chris_gaskin123 · 7/10 · 23 January 2006]

Blood Of Dracula is a typical of the drive-ins that Americain International came out with in the 1950's, aimed at teenagers. I quite liked this one.

After her mum dies and dad remarries, a girl is sent to a boarding school where she is hypnotised by one of her teachers as part of an ongoing experiment connected to the supernatural. This turns her into a fanged vampire and she kills several people. The police are baffled by these murders and when she refuses to look at her teacher at the end, tragedy strikes... Includes somebody singing Puppy Love.

Blood of Dracula has some creepy music and creepy locations as well, especially the night scenes. The vampire make-up looks pretty good for a low budget movie.

The cast is mostly made up of unknowns, lead by Sandra Harrison, her only movie according to IMDb.

Blood Of Dracula is a must for B-movie followers out there.

Rating: 3 stars out of 5.

Who am I? What am I doing, I - I'm living a nightmare!

[lastliberal-853-253708 · 4/10 · 16 June 2012]

There were flashes, albeit brief, of good acting in this drive-in special.

Sandra Harrison played a troubled teen dumped in a boarding school by her father. Her resentment was tapped by the science teacher (Louise Lewis) who was bitter towards the men who ruled her profession.

She decried experimentation into atomic energy as means to war and unrest, and proclaimed her efforts to tap an inner energy as the formula for peace in the world. That inner energy was a vampire. Now, we don't often see female vampires (Queen of the Damned and Let Me In are two that come to mind.).

Being 1957, we, of course, are spared the blood and gore - kinda like a Twilight film, but no sparkles.

It was an interesting film for those who like to explore drive-in classics, but not much for anyone else.

good cult classic

[seaview29 · 8/10 · 6 April 2007]

With all due respect to the other comments, I have seen and enjoyed this film for many years; originally in l958. Like most AIP pics of the time, for me, they were well produced and surprisingly, well acted. Yes, it does resemble another great cult classic film, I was a Teen-Age Werewolf' a silly title,for what is a very good movie, given Micheal Landon at the start of his career. "Blood of Dracula" has some good horror vets, Malcolm Atterbury, Louise Lewis and Richard Devon. I never saw a hint of 'lesbianism' just a very con- trolling Doctor/scientist, and I find the song "Puppy" love rather corny, but cute. These movies relied on atmosphere and imagination, unlike today's gore, blood and guts, I say to 'each his own'I just don't like to see these movies 'belittled' when they do have, and merit artistic talent.

Queer Cinema Before Its Time

[jromanbaker · 7/10 · 7 June 2023]

This film was in a double bill along with ' Teenage Frankenstein ' the UK title losing the American ' I Was A Teenage Frankenstein. ' Blood of Dracula ' was given the title of ' Blood Is My Heritage ' and the latter in my opinion was the more imaginative title. Dracula films were everywhere at the time. Unlike America children under 16 were not admitted, and both were given the X certificate that the UK censor thought they should have. The poster was lurid and asked people not to eat before seeing this double bill and of course it was a big success. I shall call this film ' Blood Is My Heritage ' as it seemed at the time the most alluring. The story has lots of Lesbian undertones as it is a woman who makes the girl into a Vampire and once transformed she murders both sexes with equal ' pleasure '. Something Queer indeed for its time, which a few in the audience must have noticed, especially Lesbians and Gay men. Pairing it with ' Teenage Frankenstein reinforced that as the crazy scientist chooses a hunk of a youth and gets him to kill his wife. The horror in ' Teenage Frankenstein ' is much more explicit. Viewers should check both of them out on YouTube, where they can be found. In my opinion in their negative way they could appeal to Queer sensibilities as well as straight viewers who could judge for themselves.

Staggeringly Lame - A Brain Drain - Contrived Cack.

[hitchcockthelegend · 2/10 · 2 October 2015]

A teenage girl, bit of a rebel, is sent away to a girls school. Her fiery nature brings her to the attention of the science teacher, who, using a Carpathian amulet, uses the girl for nefarious deeds.

OK! You understand why plenty of folk love the cruddy schlockers of the 50s (I love me plenty as well), the films that were the bottom half of a bottom of the barrel drive-in double bill. Quite often there's a charm to be found, even some that genuinely have craft, guile and surprise enough to warrant love and affection. Blood of Dracula (AKA: Blood Is My Heritage) is devoid of charm and doesn't work hard to earn support.

As has been pointed out by the horror faithful over the years, there is no blood and no Dracula in this film - though Dracula as plural does get a mention during one of the many many long and dull passages of chatter within. The narrative plods along until angry girl meets angry science teacher and it's hypnotism time! Yay. Enter a creature that looks like Eddie Munster with bad teeth. All violent damage is done off screen, an interim pop tune and dance sequence is just bizarre, and the plot's motives really don't make any sense.

Herman Cohen (producer) was not dumb. I Was a Teenage Werewolf and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, the two other films in this schlocky trilogy, are good fun. He was capable of overseeing some good movies pitched at a teen audience - even having something to say about the youth/adult divide. Sadly his vampire excursion is not only lazy, it's also very dull. 2/10