"She'll get under your skin!" promised the ads. What the ads don't say is that you'll want to go straight to the pharmacy for something to get her off your skin after seeing this cinematic wonder.
"Nocturna" is awful, no doubt about it, but boy howdy, is it fun! The wooden Nai Benet, whose disco dancing is only slightly worse than her acting, stars as thegranddaughter of Dracula, a gal who has no interest in the local werewolf (no, seriously) and falls for a hot gay man from a local disco band (played by the late Antony Hamilton). She runs away from Transylvania to Manhattan with him but chooses to stay with friend of the family, Lily Munster -- I mean Yvonne de Carlo -- because the guy doesn't know she's a vampire. Oh yeah, Lily lives under the Brooklyn Bridge, on the Manhattan side, and leaves her front door unlocked.
Next come several bad jokes and sight gags involving the Manhattan vampire gang.
The young chemistry-free lovers then go to a disco where Nocturna twirls and twirls. and twirls. and twirls, because apparently that's all she knows how to do. After flinging off her shawl to reveal her stripper outfit, Nocturna does a bizarre chicken dance while the crowd watches lovingly.
Full of bad writing, bad acting, bad dancing, terrific 1979 New York City street shots, a wocka-wocka disco/porn soundtrack, special effects that make "Land of the Lost" look like hard-core art, one completely gratuitous nude bathing sequence, and the least erotic sex scene I believe I've ever seen, I can't recommend this film highly enough -- that is, if you can find it.
"Nocturna" is awful, no doubt about it, but boy howdy, is it fun! The wooden Nai Benet, whose disco dancing is only slightly worse than her acting, stars as thegranddaughter of Dracula, a gal who has no interest in the local werewolf (no, seriously) and falls for a hot gay man from a local disco band (played by the late Antony Hamilton). She runs away from Transylvania to Manhattan with him but chooses to stay with friend of the family, Lily Munster -- I mean Yvonne de Carlo -- because the guy doesn't know she's a vampire. Oh yeah, Lily lives under the Brooklyn Bridge, on the Manhattan side, and leaves her front door unlocked.
Next come several bad jokes and sight gags involving the Manhattan vampire gang.
The young chemistry-free lovers then go to a disco where Nocturna twirls and twirls. and twirls. and twirls, because apparently that's all she knows how to do. After flinging off her shawl to reveal her stripper outfit, Nocturna does a bizarre chicken dance while the crowd watches lovingly.
Full of bad writing, bad acting, bad dancing, terrific 1979 New York City street shots, a wocka-wocka disco/porn soundtrack, special effects that make "Land of the Lost" look like hard-core art, one completely gratuitous nude bathing sequence, and the least erotic sex scene I believe I've ever seen, I can't recommend this film highly enough -- that is, if you can find it.