Leering, juvenile, sleazy, unfunhy, with a stench of German sex comedy - that's all true. It has also entertaining and gorgeous elements.
Clarimonde's castle and the surrounding German scenery, including the flower-wreathed graveyard, make fantastic job as Transylvania, thanks to the great cinematography. There are lot of ideas borrowed from the 1967 Dance of the Vampires - the vampire hunters, for instance, one an older man with white shock of hair, other the young man in lust with the young woman they want to rescue from the vampire party. They mug and steal the vampires' clothes to get in - and Dracula is played by none other than Ferdy Mayne, the Count von Krolock from the bosomy but marvelous Dance.
Too bad the jokes here are from the rancid bottom of the sex comedy barrel - including the bare bottomed monk, unfunny and wearisome, like his Bishop with outrageously "funny" German accent. Both are vampirized and free to molest the bare-breasted school girls, while the lesbian teacher is punished when she tries the same act! Some lesbian/feminist film fan would have field day here - apparently the teacher is "dyke" because she can't get a man: in the earlier scene, the male lead - a man with more chest hair than average gorilla - rejects her for Betty. There is genuine nastiness in these sex politics, which make the 2009 Lesbian Vampire Killers seem like Andrea Dworkin and Angela Carter would have made a truce and written a script!
Clarimonde's castle and the surrounding German scenery, including the flower-wreathed graveyard, make fantastic job as Transylvania, thanks to the great cinematography. There are lot of ideas borrowed from the 1967 Dance of the Vampires - the vampire hunters, for instance, one an older man with white shock of hair, other the young man in lust with the young woman they want to rescue from the vampire party. They mug and steal the vampires' clothes to get in - and Dracula is played by none other than Ferdy Mayne, the Count von Krolock from the bosomy but marvelous Dance.
Too bad the jokes here are from the rancid bottom of the sex comedy barrel - including the bare bottomed monk, unfunny and wearisome, like his Bishop with outrageously "funny" German accent. Both are vampirized and free to molest the bare-breasted school girls, while the lesbian teacher is punished when she tries the same act! Some lesbian/feminist film fan would have field day here - apparently the teacher is "dyke" because she can't get a man: in the earlier scene, the male lead - a man with more chest hair than average gorilla - rejects her for Betty. There is genuine nastiness in these sex politics, which make the 2009 Lesbian Vampire Killers seem like Andrea Dworkin and Angela Carter would have made a truce and written a script!