If "The Fearless Vampire Killers" wasn't enough for the psychedelic era of movie making (the 1960's), here comes this obvious rip-off that overloads the screen with moderate nudity, gags straight out of an "Airplane!" or "Naked Gun" movie, and a Count Dracula that highly resembles the classier Christopher Lee and is even named Christopher as homage to him. Starting off with a weird group of passengers on a plane watching an adult movie (including a gum-popping boy, a cigar chomping grandpa, and a young girl with glasses so thick her eyes look like a giant moon) and an effeminate steward ("Don't do that!", he screeches when the heroine draws blood from his hand while getting her martini from him), the stage is set for just under two hours of a film so bad yet funny, it's difficult to stop it no matter how badly you want to. The heroine, a Hollywood movie star, has come to Transylvania to sell her family estate, sending the castle's caretaker into hysterics over her resemblance to her grandmother, who is very much undead and stalking the night for prey. All this comes to a head at a party held in honor of "Count Christopher Dracula" where the heroine, her lover, the caretaker, two undead priests and the grandmother all covert together to wrap this turkey up. Fortunately, it's all available on a $5 DVD from alpha video that once you watch it you'll definitely want to pass on to friends who just want a chance to laugh at one of the silliest bad movies since the days of Ed Wood.
While the nudity is seemingly quite gratuitous, it's not done in an offensive way. The actress playing the countess and her undead grandmother resembles Elizabeth Taylor, while all of the other characters are parodies of types seen in horror movies since the silent days. It's clever in the sense that there are a lot of references that only old cinema buffs might get, particularly the old priest's resemblance to character actor Felix Bressart. There are moments when parts of the film don't appear to be as cheap as the rest of the movie. There's a great scene where the countess has fantasies of various people (including the gay steward) being tortured while in the castle's torture chamber. A young priest, fighting his lustful urges, is suddenly haunted by a topless vampiress and has all sorts of strange sexual visuals including a tree that opens up like a pair of legs as a branch resembling the male anatomy prepares to invade it. The actors all appear to be having a very good time being silly (especially the deceased young priest who, once dead, acts continuously like he was drunk), but it's still quite amateurish. While you'll definitely get the similarities to the plot of "The Fearless Vampire Killers", one thing I'm sure you'll agree on---unlike that cult Roman Polanski movie, this is one film I hope they never choose to make into a Broadway musical.
While the nudity is seemingly quite gratuitous, it's not done in an offensive way. The actress playing the countess and her undead grandmother resembles Elizabeth Taylor, while all of the other characters are parodies of types seen in horror movies since the silent days. It's clever in the sense that there are a lot of references that only old cinema buffs might get, particularly the old priest's resemblance to character actor Felix Bressart. There are moments when parts of the film don't appear to be as cheap as the rest of the movie. There's a great scene where the countess has fantasies of various people (including the gay steward) being tortured while in the castle's torture chamber. A young priest, fighting his lustful urges, is suddenly haunted by a topless vampiress and has all sorts of strange sexual visuals including a tree that opens up like a pair of legs as a branch resembling the male anatomy prepares to invade it. The actors all appear to be having a very good time being silly (especially the deceased young priest who, once dead, acts continuously like he was drunk), but it's still quite amateurish. While you'll definitely get the similarities to the plot of "The Fearless Vampire Killers", one thing I'm sure you'll agree on---unlike that cult Roman Polanski movie, this is one film I hope they never choose to make into a Broadway musical.