Dreams of Dracula
Jess Franco’s Count Dracula (1970) is a dull and unnecessary version of the story, but Pere Portabella’s “making of” Cuadecuc, Vampir (1971), included as a supplement on Severin’s Blu-ray, is a fascinating meditation […]
Review: Cuadecuc, Vampir (1971)
Director: Pere Portabella
Cast: Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, Soledad Miranda, Jack Taylor, Maria Rohm,
Christopher Lee
Herbert Lom
Soledad Miranda
Jack Taylor
Maria Rohm
Plot: Initially a documentary about the making of Jess Franco’s “Count Dracula” (a 1970 vampire movie starring Christopher Lee), "Cuadecuc, Vampir" presents "an intervention": an atmospheric, silent, black and white film-essay, serving as an alternative version of the original movie, showing grainy footage of the performers–both in and out of their characters–wandering through the Gothic sets and the natural locations; a ghostly narration between fiction and reality.
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