Dracula is in this movie presumably because that was the deal but the story is independent of him and if you cut the first and last scenes he wouldn't be in it. That would be just as well since the actor is a very weak substitute for Christopher Lee. But it doesn't matter to the movie. It's silly but it has a lot of good things in it. It's well shot (although indifferently edited), the scenes of the vampires and their zombie army are genuinely creepy, the action scenes are fun, all the women are very attractive--for some reason the vampires first strip off their blouses; maybe they moonlight, or sunlight, as modeling agents--and the occasional contrasts between the Christian and Buddhist religions are intriguing (and might have been expanded into a general theme for the movie). The tape I saw included both the original version and the shorter American version, which is a shambles. What instructions did the cutter have: Mess it up?
