Lady Dracula (1978)

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Movie
Original title Lady Dracula
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Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1978
length 75 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Franz Josef Gottlieb
script Brad Harris
Redis Reda
production IFV production
music Horst Jankowski
camera Fritz Baader
Ernst W. Kalinke
cut Gisela Haller
occupation

Lady Dracula is a German horror film from 1975, which only premiered in 1978.

action

One night in 1876, Count Dracula breaks into an Austrian girls' boarding school and kidnaps the young Comtesse Barbara to his castle. The mob that chases him succeeds in rendering Dracula harmless, but for Barbara any help comes too late. As a result, she is buried in a sealed coffin.

A hundred years later, the coffin is exposed by an excavator during construction work, which also breaks the seals. Before the excavator operator can inform the right people, however, the coffin is stolen by crooks and sold to an antique dealer. During the night Barbara gets out of her coffin and attacks the dealer. But no sooner has she tasted blood for the first time than she transforms into a grown woman.

Barbara quickly finds her way in the modern world and even finds a job as a corpse beautician in a Viennese funeral home, where she secretly feeds on blood. But during a carnival party, Barbara assaults the director's lover and is discovered by him, and as a result the company burns down. Now without a regular source of blood, Barbara goes hunting in the city at night and quickly arouses the interest of the police. Commissioner Harris and Inspector Arent, Harris' underexposed subordinate, are assigned to the case.

In the course of his investigation, Harris meets Barbara and falls unsuspectingly in love with her. On his first intimate rendezvous, however, Harris learns her true nature, and a fight ensues. When the sun rises in the meantime, Barbara escapes into a secret room of her apartment, where she hides her coffin. Carelessly, however, the inspector follows her and is pulled by her into the coffin, the lid of which then falls shut. When Inspector Arent, who himself determined the true identity of the vampire killer, rushes into the apartment and stumbles upon the violently shaken coffin, he only remarks, disturbed: "Now you should know whether you can disturb any more!"

Reviews

The reviews were devastating: scary rubbish with Eddi Arent. or horror films below level, but with countless follies. are given as examples.

Remarks

The depreciation film was shot in the fall of 1975, but it was not distributed and it was not released until 1978 in theaters. It marked Theo Lingen's last cinema appearance .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Cinema.de
  2. Lady Dracula. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used