O Drakoulas ton Exarheion

In nowadays that parallel universe is the easy way out and replaces any troublesome scenario plots this movie is worth watching. Does it have a complex scenario? Something memorable and unique? For me no BUT it has great quotes , it has the humor that i so much miss , a humor that isn't bound by technicalities and politically correct boundaries . Watching this movie gives you a notion of freedom . Tzimis Panousus and Dimitris Poulikakos are the stars and add value to the whole movie . So in overall i would recommend you to watch it. It is a window open to an era in Greece that is very educating about what was happening during those times.

This is the first question i made to myself after the end titles. Being a huge fan of Jimis and cult films i can't hide that this movie was something divine. A movie full of scenes that you can't understand if the actors really act. They just... do what they do(pay attention to the orgy scene or the sex inside the coffin). Also full of great songs, not only music, but the lyrics are fantastic. Really deep. If you have any idea of Greek reality you'll understand why i say that. Imagine that these songs were written at the year 1983. After 24 years they are more in time than ever. Prophetic... I couldn't vote less than 9 because all of the reasons above. So open your minds and see this movie.

Wow! is the only thing I can say about it.There is some kind of plot in the film but surely not in the conventional way.Things just happen, often out of blue and you find yourself just standing and looking unable to really get a grip on what's happening or how could anyone think of something like that to put in his movie.Hilarious satire of political and social life in Greece of the early 80s (some things have not changed drastically even now). Grotesque and surrealistic images and great music (stick to the lyrics) from Tzimis Panousis and the Music Brigades.A true cult classic for anyone who has an idea of Greek everyday reality!

The only thing that deserves to be watched are Asimos,Kotronis and Panousis.The script is a mess,the direction too.

Many tags can fit the filmmaker Nikos Zervos, he is one of the key figures in the development of Greek cinema, a brilliant satirist of the culture and society and a former vice president of the Greek Directors Association from 2001 to 2010. I have only seen Exiled in the Central Avenue (1979), Sapounopetra: To hrima sto Laimo sas (1995), Black + White (1973) and the crazy Greek counterculture horror musical satire Dracula of Exarcheia (1983), my personal favourite in his filmography. He has made chaotic, anarchic films in the underground and moved towards a later professionalism that can be seen in his filmmaking style, preserving all its usual satire and being crony.

Zervos emphasized the madness that nests of the early 80s, mocking the fascism, anti-consumerism, LGBTQ theme and hyperboles that put sex, feminism, absurdness at the very core of its rhetorical structure with the manifest aim of offending as many. A mad scientist who is like a hybrid between Count Dracula and Dr. Frankenstein brings together a band by assembling the body parts of the famous deceased musicians. Then we see a heteronormative chick who hangs around, i was glad to spot a Motorhead and British horror classic Cry of the Banshee movie poster in her bedroom. Don't miss the bonker rendition of "l'Internationale" by the Communist zombies earlier in the film. It is one of the funniest moments in the film, there's also a feminist body sequence with corny lines and effective cheesy humor manages to make you cringe and laugh throughout.

I want to recommend this absurd filth to those who get entertained by the works of the Ulrike Ottinger (Freak Orlando), Kuchar Brothers, David Lynch, José Rodriguez Soltero, Banmei Takahashi, Lisa Hammer, Kazuhiro Sano, Herbert Achternbusch, Jon Moritsugu, Yoshihiko Matsui, Eric Bummer, The Findlays, Teco Benson, John Waters, Roger A. Fratter, Nick Zedd and Norbert Moutier. THE REST CAN STAY AWAY!!