A group of four young travellers - four beautiful women and a man - find themselves in a spot of bother when a stagecoach wheel falls off and two of the horses bolt, killing the coach driver in the process. They seek refuge at a nearby sanitarium, the home of a Dr Wendell Marlowe, aka Count Dracula (played by Spanish horror legend Paul Naschy). Plenty of Gothic horror, vampires, swirling mists, neck biting and boobs plus one or two gory deaths which include an impressive axe in a man's head at the start. Naschy is best known for playing werewolves, I always like to watch him but he doesn't really convince as Dracula. Hammer did this but so much better, however it is most definitely worth a look for fans of trashy Euro horror. Set in the Carpathian Mountains but palm trees etc give away the Mediterranean filming location, there are some really obvious day for night scenes (Hammer too were guilty of this), plus the dubbing on the English language version that I watched was atrocious. I did like the idea of Dracula showing some humanity and actually falling in love. Given a better quality print I may have have scored this slightly higher.
Review of Count Dracula's Great Love
