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Ahh youth.I remember struggling to stay up to see this at 1:30am on a
friday night back in the late 1960's.Needless to say when the first vampire
attack happened I shot up to my room for the night.
This recently came out on dvd after being bootlegged for years.So it was
nice to see a print that while a bit speckled was superior to the
tapes.
The plot boils down to the evil Count and his plans of revenge against the
Colman family.There has been much blood spilled between the two and this
night may prove to be the end of the line for the Colman family (a man and
his two nieces).
Count Subotay (Subotai?) plays an organ made of human bones and skulls in
his misty underground lair. He summons his minions to help him carry out his
plot against the Colmans.His female vampires are pretty hot looking.The male
vampires are blind, hairy handed(a self abuse warning perhaps?) and quite
ugly.Of course this way the Count can keep the women for himself.
A young couple is viciously attacked to begin the evening.Then the Count
moseys over to the Colmans to join a party.(One of my faults with this movie
lies in the fact that if your family has been decimated by vampires don't
you think you'd do what you could to learn the name of the vamp?Especially
after some strange pale dude in a tuxedo and cape shows up in your
neighborhood?).
We meet the hero (Rudy) and learn that vampires can be killed by a certain
tune.He plays it on the piano and the Count does everything but wet his
pants in screaming agony.He slams down the piano key cover on Rudy's hands(a
la Tom & Jerry)to make him stop.
The Count leaves but he vampirizes one of the girls who in turn vampirizes
Rudy.Rudy begins to grow hair on his hands and his eyesight begins to dim.Mr
Colman vanishes and Rudy finally adds up that Subotay is a vampire and
responsible for the attacks.
The film becomes a race against time.Rudy is captured and the other niece
is prepared for vampiric sacrifice. Can Rudy defeat the Count before he
turns into a mindless vampire creature?Will the Colman family be destroyed
forever?Will Rudy ever get rid of the hair on his palms?
There is a lot of atmosphere and an oppressive mood in this film.It is
better than most of the Mexican vampire films(Bloody Vampire,Invasion Of The
Vampires or the Nostradamus series).But it does fall short of El Vampiro
(then again so do most vampire films).