Dracula Contra Frankenstein

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Director: Jesus Franco
Cast: Dennis Price, Howard Vernon, Paca Gabaldón
Spain, 1972, 88’, color
Spanish with Turkish subtitles

In this comedic horror film from cult director Jesus Franco, Jonathan Seward tracks the evil vampire Count Dracula to his castle and kills him with a stake through the heart. The nightmare has hardly begun, however, as the mad Dr. Frankenstein revives the vampire using the blood of a nightclub singer. The pair then join forces, along with Frankenstein's monster (Fernando Bilbao) and a mutant assistant named Morpho (Luis Barboo), in an attempt to create a vampire army to rule the world. This parody manages to deconstruct traditional legend without saying anything remotely interesting or clever, and the special effects are strictly of the bargain-basement variety. Paca Gabaldon (appearing as "Mary Francis"), Britt Nichols, and Anne Libert co-star. Director Franco returned to the Frankenstein theme the following year with La Maldicion de Frankenstein.

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