Sunday, May 13, 2012

TENDER DRACULA (1974)

An obscure 70's French Dracula movie starring Peter Cushing?  Point the way, right?  Wrong.  In the film, Cushing is an actor who plays a vampire (a role I don't think he ever played before in a real film).  When the studio finds out he wants to stop making horror films, they send two writers out to his castle for the weekend to see what's up.  They bring along their girlfriends, one played by French star Miou-Miou, who is seen naked while singing a long song about monsters.  People talk and talk and talk.  Cushing shows his old scrapbook which is filled with real pictures of him in his movies.  There's some blood here and there and I was most surprised to see Alida Valli playing Cushing's wife.  I think it's supposed to be a comedy, but I forgot to laugh.  It's a long bore.

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