ANDY WARHOL'S DRACULA Review On "Violent Maniac's Cage"

ANDY WARHOL'S DRACULA

First of all, be aware that this film comes in two formats, rated and unrated...I haven't seen the rated version but I have seen the unrated version and couldn't come up with anything worth cutting out. A hilarious and totally amazing telling of the Dracula story (although it really has nothing to do with Stoker's novel), ANDY WARHOL'S DRACULA must be seen to be believed.

O.K., first of all, the film features a vast cast of actors who are all foreign, yet who must speak in English, and therefore speak slowly and over-dramatically. This already makes it an interesting film. Andy Warhol's name also always promises some interesting stuff full of gore and nudity, and it delivers with high camp.

The story is as follows: Count Dracula gets bored in Transylvania and decides to search the countryside for fresh virgin women. He comes to a small town and finds a house full of three daughters, all promised by their parents to be virgins. Well, little do the parents know that their trusty handy-man/gardener/servant is getting it on with the two oldest sisters, sometimes at the same time.

The sisters all go for Dracula, since he's royalty and has money. Yet, when he bites them and finds that they are not virgins, he goes into really violent fits of vomitting and coughing. He's only really interested in the youngest daughter, who the parents feel is too young to be married. She's pretty cool, though, and finds a connection with Dracula. Too bad he can't have her. To make matters worse, he keeps getting into ideological Marxist vs. Keynesian arguments with the handyman who is a Communist and who wants to rid the world of all aristocracy.

As you can probably tell, this is a far cry from the original Dracula story. What it is is a really campy, funny movie which goes over the top with gore and nudity, but all of it is so ridiculous that it isn't too gross or scary. Among the highlights are Dracula's right-hand man using a piece of bread as a sponge to soak up blood from the scene of a car accident in which a little girl (i.e., virgin) was killed.

One warning about ANDY WARHOL'S DRACULA: it's not PG at all. The handyman says things such as, "What about your little sister? I'd love to rape the shit out of her." Bad, I know, but once you understand that the whole movie is really trash and not to be taken seriously, then you can enjoy it more.

ANDY WARHOL'S DRACULA is ridiculous, hilarious, bloody, and at times, sick. In other words, it's got everything you could possibly want from a late-night video rental. If your store's got this one, check it out.

Rating: *** ½ (out of a possible 4)

Review by: Dan Sachar

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