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Friend of The Rialto Report, Dries Vermeulen, wrote the following review of ‘Dracula Exotica’ (which contains spoilers): Arriving in New York on a fog-shrouded ship, Dracula has a Yorga-style fight with three thuggish drug smugglers (‘it seems that the ship carried a cargo even more dangerous than myself’), who are probably worn out from an energetic session with Puerto Rican spitfire Vita Valdez (Vanessa Del Rio). Vita stabs Dracula and steals his wallet, whereupon the vampire bites her and turns into a) a vampire and b) his secretary. An especially perverse sex-horror scene has Vita’s naked corpse mauled in the morgue by a necrophile (Joel Caine aka Herschel Savage) who is surprised when she comes to fanged life and bites him – a twist on a well-remembered scene in Blacula. This is a rare instance of porn played for suspense: we immediately guess the punchline, but it’s delayed as ominous music drones while the morgue attendant has sex with the unresponding dead woman, who only shows her fangs after he’s finished his business. The story begins in the Carpathian country side in 1590 with the idle nobleman dividing his time between drunken orgies (involving the likes of Marlene Willoughby, Christine De Schaffer, Marc Valentine and the ubiquitous Ron Jeremy) and lusting for chaste, unattainable gamekeeper’s daughter Surka (Samantha Fox in a fetching auburn wig) whom he cannot marry because she is beneath him. Therefore she’s confined to a nunnery instead. One night, overcome with passion, he drags her from her bed chambers and violates the terrified young virgin in front of his inebriated underlings. Rather than take the life of the man she loves, even in spite of what he has wrought, Surka kills herself with her rapist’s knife. Finding her lifeless body, the inconsolable Count pulls the dagger from her fatal wound and plunges it into his own chest, thereby giving birth to…the Curse of Dracula ! Watching a porn is often more fun than most people think, or are afraid to admit perhaps. Of course it has some bad acting, a silly story and a low budget behind it but the filmmakers and 'actors' at least know this and simply decide to have some fun, while shooting their movie. It's the thing that makes "Dracula Exotica" quite entertaining to watch.

While the modern porn film is cheaply made and only ever offers up serial sexual encounters with the most minimal plot connecting them, it is a surprise to see Dracula Exotica, which comes from the heyday when porn was made for theatres and shot on film rather than videotape. It is a feature-length film whereas most modern porn films tend to be well under the one-hour mark. It also features that rarity in this particular genre – a story. Moreover, it offers a Dracula origin story and a surprisingly psychologically convincing one – that his beloved was placed into a nunnery, he ravaged her in his pain and then begged God to withhold him from any redemption – that holds just as much water as the more seriously intended origins offered in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) or Dracula Untold (2014). Count Dracula (Jamie Gillis) puts the bite on Samantha Fox Many of the porn scenes seem perfunctory – indeed, surely seem the porn equivalent of a man who is over and done within five minutes. There is one modestly evocative scene where Jamie Gillis’s reflection appears in Samantha Fox’s mirror as she stands and masturbates – when you consider that most other porn films consist of no more than unromanticised naked bodies, this does seem a huge amount of style.On the minus side, this is not a film that gives the impression the makers have a high opinion of women who are frequently referred to as ‘whores’ and ‘cunts’, while a covert meeting between spy recruit Samantha Fox and her handler Erik Edwards seems to involve he demanding that she give him a blowjob in a porn theatre. There is also what must be a first for a pornographic film – a necrophilia scene as a male morgue attendant molests a woman’s corpse. I also really liked the way the movie got shot. It was a very classy movie, with also some good settings and costumes in it. It's weird but you would think the way porn movies got shot would have been improved and perfected over the years but just give me a movie like this over a modern one any day! It's more pleasantly shot, original and overall feels far more authentic as well. It also stars same well known names, from the world of classic porn, such as Samantha Fox, Vanessa del Rio and Ron Jeremy in a small bit part, in which he gets to show his juggling skills. And you could say what you want about this guy but he's always entertaining to see in anything (or anyone). He always genuinely seems to be having fun with it all and seems to have a great sense of humor as well.

The Rialto Report recently came across a selection of unseen slides taken on the set of the 1980 adult film ‘ Dracula Exotica‘– a movie that featured a who’s who of golden age actors… Jamie Gillis, Samantha Fox, Vanessa del Rio, Eric Edwards, Bobby Astyr, Denise and Diane– the Sloan twins, Herschel Savage, Ron Jeremy, Dave Ruby, and Marlene Willoughby. Having the character of Dracula in a porn movie and in modern times is hardly anything original. It has been done a lot and it's still getting done now days. But I can say that this is one of the rare movies in which it actually works out as fun and entertaining.Director Shaun Costello reunited with his FIONA ON FIRE producer Kenneth Schwartz to mount a lavish adaptation of the Dracula legend, but something got lost in translation. I believe Costello has complained that the film was tampered with in post-production so the end result was very different from what he intended. I'm still not sure which direction he was truly intending to go in with this: the straight-faced horror route or the LOVE AT FIRST BITE spoof route. In any event, it doesn't really succeed, but is hard to dismiss. Dracula Exotica is not an X-rated version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) or a remake any of the film adaptations as some people have insisted. If anything, it reads more like a straight version of the then-recent comedy Love at First Bite (1979), which had a revived Dracula forced to vacate his castle by now-Communist Romania and travelling to present-day New York City with his manservant where he woos the woman who is a reincarnation of his love. Some of the shots of Dracula’s resurrection and images of him in frilly high-collar shirt seem readily borrowed from the then-recent remake of Dracula (1979) starring Frank Langella. But of course it's not a great movie and it also definitely is a bit overlong. 100 minutes is just far too long for a movie of this sort and it also definitely starts to drag more toward its end. The movie so easily could had ended 30 minutes earlier and I'm sure if it that I would had given the movie a higher rating, if that would had been the case. Francis Ford Coppola’s sumptuous melodrama takes its cues from the 1974 telefilm as Dracula winds up in Victorian England and fixates on the woman he believes is his reincarnated paramour. When not morphing into rats or green mist, Oldman’s low-key Dracula tends to be upstaged by Eiko Ishioka’s spectacular costumes. Worse, Oldman is so lovelorn that he is not at all scary. 8 Claes Bang in The Rules of the Beast (2020)

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