Lust for Dracula (2004)

People are voting emotionally.

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Forlorn young Mina (an endearingly loopy turn by the ever-adorable Misty Mundae) is stuck in an unhappy marriage with stolid and controlling pharmaceutical tycoon Jonathan Harker (a fine portrayal by the lovely Julian Wells). Mina encounters Dracula (exquisitely embodied by the gorgeous Darian Caine) when she longs most for a child and falls under Dracula's wickedly alluring spell. Writer/director Tony Marsiglia brings a peculiarly arresting dreamy'n'heady style to the offbeat premise and does an expert job of carefully crafting a deliriously erotic atmosphere. Of course, we also get oodles of tasty bare female skin and loads of smoking hot girl-on-girl action, with a steamy and tender poolside love scene between Mina and Dracula rating as the definite sensuous and arousing highlight. Moreover, Marsiglia's "try it, do it" experimental avant-garde approach gives this movie a truly inspired sense of all-out pervasive weirdness: Caine and Wells both play their characters as men (Wells even does a from behind sex scene with Mundae!), Mundae's wacky little bat bat monologue is simply jaw-dropping, and towards the end there's without a doubt one of the freakiest attempted rapes to ever grace celluloid. The cast of yummy babes keeps things sultry and watchable throughout: Besides the mighty troika of Mundae, Wells, and Caine (and how can one really go wrong with these three?), there's the foxy Shelly Jones as the lusty and willful Abigal Van Helsing, the delicious Andrea Davis as the predatory bloodsucker Sarah, and cute Casey Jones as enticing and vulnerable teenager Beth. Dang Lenawae's sumptuous cinematography gives the picture a stunningly opulent look. Don Mike's moody score alternates between wonky ambient noise and smooth jazz. An intriguing oddity.

Since I didn't make it to SXSW, I missed the international debut of Lesbian Vampire Killers, so I have be satisfied with this film.Little vampire and lots of lesbian action; some even say porn. There is even something for those who get off on schoolgirls with plaid skirts and white blouses.Don't try to make any sense out of this film, especially Misty Mundae's "little bat-bat" soliloquy. Her sister Jonathan (Julian Wells) had just done a job on her. Of course, Dracula (Darian Caine) shows up at midnight to do a really good job on her.All this film needed was a nun to make it fully exploitive.

OH Gawd! The WORST! Lame everything...so boring and brainless it reminded me of how easy it might be to give an adolescent filmmaker an 8mm camera and a 500 dollar budget. I rented this one because I liked the box cover...MISTAKE? Perhaps... Every expectation I had for a watchable horror flick was not met, it was murdered in cold blood. It seemed as if the script, if you want to call it that, was ad-libbed and the acting was so forced, it was like watching a high school production of 'The Music Man' (only with lesbians on Xanax). I see the director has made other things. For his sake, he'd better keep hiring the same "box designer" and make his name in the credits really, really small.I firmly believe that this might be the worst movie I have ever seen.

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT* Well, it finally happened. The filmmakers finally snapped after filming too many lesbian sex scenes.Oh my. What have we here? Couldn't do one more sex version of Dracula eh? Couldn't bear it? "Lust for Dracula" is, to put it mildly, screwed up. It's trying to be some sort of surreal, dreamlike flick. When I saw Julian Wells trying to have sex with Misty Mundae like a man, I knew the movie was out of control. Dracula comes to visit Misty who's upset she can't have a child. After that, the movie flies off into the filmmakers mad dreams. Little Bat Bat is way too comfortably numb.When will they learn? As far as sex movies go, it's all been done before. There is not a position you can come up with that hasn't been filmed before. The only thing that changes are the girls who sigh and moan. So to make up for the monotony of sex scenes, (at least in the filmmakers mind), we are treated to such scenes as Misty reading a bedtime story to a potato. I submit to you that this is not a good trade off. Instead of a bedtime story, how about a bedtime orgy? Well, the good news is that the sex scenes are pretty good. Misty and Dracula go at it near the pool and two other girls roll around near a beachfront cemetery. Julian Wells has to be the man of the group and is denied a lot of the action. In these movies, it's always ladies night.So there are a few decent sex scenes hiding amongst the dreamlike ramblings. It may be worth a look. Besides, isn't it better to see one more lesbian vampire flick even if it is insane?