
Blood of Dracula

A crazed teacher at a respectable girls' school draws power from a medallion she has obtained from the Carpathian Mountains, and uses it to experiment telepathically on the school's newest young pupil.
A crazed teacher at a respectable girls' school draws power from a medallion she has obtained from the Carpathian Mountains, and uses it to experiment telepathically on the school's newest young pupil.
_Blood of Dracula_ has nothing to do with blood or Dracula. Nancy's father, and step mother, drop her off at a boarding school for "girls." We're to believe that these are teens, but they have to be in their 30s, maybe older. Nancy even claims to be 18, while she is connected to a polygraph - I'm shocked it didn't burst into flames.
Anyway, the school's science teacher is convinced that, in the future, humans are going to become monsters because "science bad."
In order to test her hypothesis, Miss Science Lady uses hypnosis to turn 18-year-old Nancy into a werewolf... I mean vampire - again, because reasons.
The movie is barely over an hour and still manages to feel long. So much time is spent with secondary characters talking about details that don't push the plot forward.
The worst moment, hands down, is the impromptu music video for "Puppy Love." What the Hell? It has nothing to do with the story, it's just there.
The anti-science paranoia is off the charts in this one. When the final line is spoken, it's clear this story was religious - read Christian - propaganda, because "science bad. god good." Didn't science give us the technology to make movie cameras? "uh... science BAD!"
So, yeah, this movie is atrocious. I hate it as a horror fan, and I hate it as an atheist.
_Blood of Dracula_ has nothing to do with blood or Dracula. Nancy's father, and step mother, drop her off at a boarding school for "girls." We're to believe that these are teens, but they have to be in their 30s, maybe older. Nancy even claims to be 18, while she is connected to a polygraph - I'm shocked it didn't burst into flames.
Anyway, the school's science teacher is convinced that, in the future, humans are going to become monsters because "science bad."
In order to test her hypothesis, Miss Science Lady uses hypnosis to turn 18-year-old Nancy into a werewolf... I mean vampire - again, because reasons.
The movie is barely over an hour and still manages to feel long. So much time is spent with secondary characters talking about details that don't push the plot forward.
The worst moment, hands down, is the impromptu music video for "Puppy Love." What the Hell? It has nothing to do with the story, it's just there.
The anti-science paranoia is off the charts in this one. When the final line is spoken, it's clear this story was religious - read Christian - propaganda, because "science bad. god good." Didn't science give us the technology to make movie cameras? "uh... science BAD!"
So, yeah, this movie is atrocious. I hate it as a horror fan, and I hate it as an atheist.