Dracula  | 1974 | Italy | Paul Morrissey

The sister film to Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein that was named and shamed on the DPP’s hit list, Dracula is Paul Morrissey’s take on the Dracula mythos, in an equally outrageous fashion. The badly decrepit and ill Count Dracula can only survive on virginal maidens’ blood, facilitating a move to the highly Catholic Italy to ensure a good range of virgins. Getting acquainted with the di Fiore family, who are desperate for their daughters to find a wealthy suitor to buttress their ailing coffers, Dracula is eager to begin drinking immediately. Unfortunately, the gardener Mario has already befouled most of the daughter’s pure blood, making the Count closer to death until his eventual success with the family’s eldest, threatening to destroy their family at fully renewed strength. With the same satirical humour and raunchy devotion to violence and sex, it won’t surprise most that the film was seized very often by police forces for its connection to the successfully prosecuted Frankenstein.