Bloodhound?

DRACULA'S DOG-1997- In this strange horror movie some Romanian soldiers unearth a vampire tomb and Count Dracula's pet dog Zoltan escapes. The pooch also frees Veidt (Reggie Nalder), the count's human servant. He and the demon dog go to California to make a guy named Michael Drake (Michael Pataki) their "new master". While Mike and his family are on a camping trip Viedt has Zoltan terrorize the family by making their dogs (including a puppy) into dog-pires! Later an inspector (Jose Ferrer) shows up to help and he and Michael are attacked in their cabin. Somehow the inspector overpowers Veidt and kills him with a stake. Michael is attacked  by the pack but the inspector and 2 hunters save him. In the weird finale Michael reveals his cross to Zoltan and the dog falls off a cliff impaled on a fence. But the evil puppy lives! 

This crazy canine caper is more bizarre than bad. The screenplay was written by Frank Ray Perilli (also an actor) who also penned the soft core porno movie CINDERELLA (directed by DOG'S star Pataki) the same year. Albert Band (who produced CINDERELLA) directed.

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Praise The Lord!

SWEET JESUS, PREACHERMAN-1973-Roger E. Mosley (who was in THE MACK the same year) stars as a hit man who pretends to be a Baptist preacher in Watts to fix up the criminal activities of a mobster (William Smith, who was in INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS the same year). Michael Pataki is a racist senator trying to get the black vote. His assistant is played by Marla Gibbs (soon to be the smart talking maid on TV’s THE JEFFERSONS). The dialogue and some of the acting is laughable at times but there’s some action to keep the story interesting.

Director Henning Schellerup was also a cinematographer on many films and made some pseudo-docu-dramas (like IN SEARCH OF HISTORIC JESUS) for Sunn Classics. Smith and Pataki were in GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE the next year.

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