Monday, May 6, 2024

Mrs. Dracula

 

 (imdb)

DRACULA'S WIDOW-1988-Raymond, a weird museum owner (Lenny Von Donlen) receives some crates of artifacts from Romania. He seems to have one extra crate. While he drinks brandy and watches "Nosferatu", some idiots break into his basement. It turns out the 6th crate contains a female vampire (pale looking Sylvia Kristel) who kills one of the robbers then bites Raymond. Later he wants to put a stake in her but can't. When his girlfriend Jenny (Rachel Jones) visits he's transfixed by her neck. A stupid cop Lannon (Josef Sommers) investigates. The vampire claims to be Dracula's wife Vanessa and almost loses it when Raymond tells her Van Helsing has killed Dracula. At some kind of devil worshiping gang bang where a woman is tortured, Vanessa turns into a monster and kills all the members.

 Later Van Helsing's grandson (Stefan Schnabel) shows up and puts stakes in some corpses. Then Vanessa kills Lannon's partner and turns Van Helsing into a vampire, Raymond is arrested for the murders. Lannon and Jenny team up to try and stop the widow's killing spree and save Raymond. 

This is a pretty shoddy affair with strange out of place close-ups with a bright red background and bad sfx. It's over the top but I'm not sure if this was intentional or not. Writer/director Marc Copolla (brother of Nicolas Cage and nephew of you know who) plays a victim and George Stover has a cameo as a coroner.

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