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Dracula (The Dirty Old Man ) (1969)

* 1/2 (out of 4)

Count Alucard (Vince Kelley) is a pervert and needs a supply of young naked women so he turns a man (Billy Whitton) into a werewolf who goes out and gets them. The werewolf brings the women back to Alucard who chains them up in his basement, rips their clothes off and has a good time.

This sexploitation movie is far from being awful but at the same time it could have been much, much better with a little more effort. Dracula THE DIRTY OLD MAN is pretty much a reason for people in 1969 to throw down a buck and see naked women and there's no doubt that there are plenty of naked young woman on display. If that's what you're into then you're going to see countless breasts, butts and other regions of the female body. If you're looking for plot..... Well, this isn't going to be the movie for you.

There are some hilarious moments scattered throughout the film, although not all of them are intentional. The film was shot silent and it's clear that they wanted this to be a "comedy" about a perverted vampire and werewolf. The voice-over dialogue has a few funny moments throughout including one about Dracula's mother bat. Most of the comedy is unintentional including the hilarious werewolf costume, which is pretty much just a mask and at times you can see it coming off of the actors head. This really puts you in an Ed Wood frame of mind and especially the film he wrote ORGY OF THE DEAD.

The biggest problem with the film is that nothing really happens in the 69-minutes. We get the same thing repeated over and over and over and over. The werewolf kidnaps a woman. She is chained up. Her clothes are taken off. Next woman. A little more thought could have made for a much better movie but fans of sexploitation will still want to watch this at least once.

No pun intended - besides Dracula (I am surprised they were allowed to use the name, but I guess anyone is allowed - maybe even back then) you also get a hairy friend ... a man who is also a wolf. I am not sure if we can call him by his name (a new Wolfman movie is coming out this year and I am very much looking forward to that).

That said, the movie is quite cheap - which you may cherish or find quite annoying. Dialog is ... well I am not even sure if you can talk about quality here. You do have blood and a lot of nudity ... so if that floats your boat, you will see quite a lot of that. There is also weird comedy ... I would say it mostly does not work ... but then again, it depends on your state of mind ... and maybe you do have low expectations ... just saying. Effects are cheap of course and there is no real story ... but maybe you have a soft (core) spot for this ...

I haven't seen this film in awhile, but remember it pretty vividly. The film was obviously shot on a really low budget and without any real actors. It has a kind of "Manos" feel to it, but with nudity and even worse special effects. There are bats that are obviously on wires and some pretty cheesy costumes. The guy doing Dracula's voice sounds like an old Jewish man (I don't know where the hell they got the idea to make Dracula Jewish, considering he was Transylvanian). The only thing that I liked about this movie is that it didn't take itself seriously at all.

Count Dracula is living in an abandoned mine in the middle of nowhere. He invites a local reporter to visit him (he goes under the pseudonym of Alucard, hee hee hee, like nobody's ever heard that before). When the inept reporter gets there, Dracula turns him into a pretty crappy looking wolf man, named Irving Jackelmann (enough with the Jewish jokes already). Dracula then sends him out to catch beautiful girls for him to tie up, love up and drain dry. Dracula takes a hankering for the reporter's girl friend and ends up chasing her around his cave.

The opening ten minutes have some really awful stream of consciousness speech by the reporter involving the blue mountains, behind the blue mountains, behind the blue mountains (we get it already). Dracula's accent is just plain annoying. Irving Jackelmann also proves to be pretty bad. The chase scene, for the love of God, was only a nude woman running around the same set for an excruciatingly long time. The nudity can't save it and the jokes, although trying hard to be campy, are just plain dumb.

Avoid unless you can spare a few brain cells.

Seven years ago, I stumbled onto a dvd called 'Monsters Crash the Pajama Party Spook Show Spectacular' and it's filled with fun spooky goodies. One thing they have is a short clip of a man going to a drive-in theater with his date. He leaves and goes to the concession stand. When he comes out, he randomly transforms into a werewolf and looks like he's kidnapping his date and takes her off somewhere. It wasn't until recently that I learned that scene was apart of this movie, so I wanted to watch it. It is filled with sleaze, trash, naked women, Dracula and the werewolf basically tying these poor girls up and having their sexual way with them, that's basically the whole plot.

Dracula is awakened in a cave and stumbles across a reporter named Mike Waters. He turns Mike into a werewolf so he'll bring Dracula women to feed on and have his way with. This happens 4 or 5 times. This movie is basically a silly cheesy stupid porno. The dialog is over-dubbed and it's hilariously bad. Dracula himself is hilarious to look at and just randomly talks nonsense to himself. It has a great 1960's grindhouse feel to it. I feel like I'm gonna have a love/hate relationship with this movie. It's 'The Room' of vampire movies. If you love sleazy grindhouse flicks, you might enjoy DRACULA, THE DIRTY OLD MAN)!!!

Saw this movie a couple of years ago as part of a very very small film festival. I remember we where about 8 or 10 people there, and one of the participants threatent to walk out and have his movie back which kind of scared the arranger since he would loose about 10% of his income on the show. He kept saying that the guy should hold on and wait, the next movie would make everything all right. Sadly this was not so, until Dracula (The Dirty Old Man) was shown (about # 6 in the show I think out of 8). The guy who had complained was, like the rest of us, completely shocked. The completely ridicuoles dialog and everything cramped into the movie to make it appear longer, the sudden scene with no connection to the rest of the plot of older man with a young girl (probably the producer wanting to get something out of the nude girls himself, and also by far the most pretty girl in the film) and the naked women being raped by a fully dressed werewolf saved the festival for that guy complaining, completely taking back everything he had said and praising the show for being so strange he could do nothing else but love it. And the arranger saved is 10% loss.