"Nocturna" is a disco porno vampire story that came out the same year "Love at First Bite", though despite a few similarities, no one could even confuse the two films! One is an artless mess with boobies, the other an amiable comedy.
Nocturna is the granddaughter of Count Dracula (John Carradine) and she wants to get married and settle down....an odd thing for a vampire. But grandpa is not thrilled when she tells him that she's fallen in love with a human (Antony Hamilton). Soon, she and her lover Jimmy (Hamilton) are on their way from Transylvania to New York City....with TONS of disco music along the way. What you also get is some very gratuitous skin, as it turns out this movie I found on YouTube is a soft-core porno flick...which surprised me.
This film is very bad but not 100% bad. Gloria Gaynor provides the opening song (much of the budget was spent on that one song). Additionally, very competent music by Vickie Sue Robinson and Moment of Truth make the movie sound pretty good....though dated since it's all disco.
As far as the rest of the film goes, well, it's bad. Despite having Carradine and Yvonne De Carlo in the movie, they aren't used very much and so much of the film rests on the acting (such as it is) of Nai Bonet as Nocturna. Much of the acting consists of her dancing about in various outfits as well as a hilarious nude scene where you hear her voice-over as well as that of peeping Tom, Theodore. It's so funny you have to see and hear it...and while it's supposed to be sexy, you can't help but laugh. I literally laughed out loud several times during this scene! I also laughed at the transformation scene as the vampires turned into bats....using bad 70s animation which cost about $3.75 to make! And, seeing a vampire pimp with his bevy of 'ladies'...well, that was a hoot.
Overall, this is a very low-budgeted film with terrible writing and a lot of questionable acting...and tons of disco! The only reason it even achieved a 2 is that at least when the women kept getting naked, they didn't have to act and most of the music wasn't bad at all.
By the way, as I watched, I was saddened to see Antony Hamilton...who I remember from the "Mission: Impossible" TV reboot. This incredibly handsome star and dancer died way too young due to complications from AIDS back in 1995.
Nocturna is the granddaughter of Count Dracula (John Carradine) and she wants to get married and settle down....an odd thing for a vampire. But grandpa is not thrilled when she tells him that she's fallen in love with a human (Antony Hamilton). Soon, she and her lover Jimmy (Hamilton) are on their way from Transylvania to New York City....with TONS of disco music along the way. What you also get is some very gratuitous skin, as it turns out this movie I found on YouTube is a soft-core porno flick...which surprised me.
This film is very bad but not 100% bad. Gloria Gaynor provides the opening song (much of the budget was spent on that one song). Additionally, very competent music by Vickie Sue Robinson and Moment of Truth make the movie sound pretty good....though dated since it's all disco.
As far as the rest of the film goes, well, it's bad. Despite having Carradine and Yvonne De Carlo in the movie, they aren't used very much and so much of the film rests on the acting (such as it is) of Nai Bonet as Nocturna. Much of the acting consists of her dancing about in various outfits as well as a hilarious nude scene where you hear her voice-over as well as that of peeping Tom, Theodore. It's so funny you have to see and hear it...and while it's supposed to be sexy, you can't help but laugh. I literally laughed out loud several times during this scene! I also laughed at the transformation scene as the vampires turned into bats....using bad 70s animation which cost about $3.75 to make! And, seeing a vampire pimp with his bevy of 'ladies'...well, that was a hoot.
Overall, this is a very low-budgeted film with terrible writing and a lot of questionable acting...and tons of disco! The only reason it even achieved a 2 is that at least when the women kept getting naked, they didn't have to act and most of the music wasn't bad at all.
By the way, as I watched, I was saddened to see Antony Hamilton...who I remember from the "Mission: Impossible" TV reboot. This incredibly handsome star and dancer died way too young due to complications from AIDS back in 1995.