The Erotic Rites of Countess Dracula

by Brian

A stylistic, well-shot movie-on-video, The Erotic Rites of Countess Dracula reminded me a bit of the old Hammer horror films, with lots of smoke machines, dark castles, and an overall gothic feel. But you wanna know about the sex, right? Right. Ok, let's get down to business...

Brick Randall is Scarlett Brooks, a rock star poised on stardom in 1966 when Count Dracula (played by legendary character actor, William Smith...trust us, you've seen him before) interupts her path to fame by turning her into a vampire. Damn the luck! Confined to a coffin by day, she is guarded by the Count's loyal assistant, Renfield (Del Howison), and the Countess does not view her newfound immortality and thirst for blood as a good thing.

Flash forward 35 yeara to present day...After Renfield refuses to put her out of her misery (he cannot bring himself to kill such a beautiful creature), they discover that if they get three virgins to willingly sacrifice themselves to her in one night she can become human again. So begins Scarlett's quest to seduce and then suck on three nubile young virginal women, and since they are in southern California, the Countess notes that finding three beautiful virgins will not be an easy task.

The sex is not explicit nor particularly passionate, but does have a certain degree of sensuality, and for those of you who enjoy vampire themes with a slant of comedy, this movie might be interesting. The lighting during the sex scenes could have been much better, but overall the sex is very tame and mostly of the posing variety, so I doubt too much was missed.

Anyone who's a big fan of the Star Wars saga might recognize director Donald F. Glut as the guy who wrote the novelization of The Empire Strikes Back. I still have an original, well-worn paperback of it on my shelf, in fact. He's also responsible for the cult b-classic, Dinosaur Valley Girls , along with many other independent film and writing credits.