Such a frustrating disappointment

Absolutely the worst movie.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

For feck's sake! I wasn't totally impressed with Ossario's Blind Dead films (the two that I've watched anyway), but I was willing to give him another chance with this vampire film, and it sucks! And that wasn't a pun! Anita Ekberg is excited to receive a letter from her Uncle declaring her a Countess following the distribution of her mother's estate. She heads of for the creepy castle these folk live in but soon finds out that there's a slight caveat about her new role in society. Namely that of everyone in the castle being a vampire...and boring vampires to boot!Vampires! Please note - when giving your non-vampire niece a tour of your crypt, please try not to use sentences like "This one in here is REALLY dead" because it just draws suspicion and when you don't answer any subsequent questions it just makes you look guilty. Long story short Anita's going to be the new head vampire if they can just get her turned. Her fiancé and his mate turn up to stir things up a bit and most of the chicks run around with plenty cleavage on display and then the Uncle turns a local barmaid into a vampire and the first thing she does is turn up at his front door and start nagging him and then some other crap happens but this film is boring as hell and not worth your time. It's kind of like Polanski's Fearless Vampire Killers (I didn't like that either). Maybe I'm not the best judge of vampire films to be honest. I don't really like them.

The return of Count Dracula as played by Christopher Lee in the late 1950's set a trend of sexy blood-suckers, both male and female, and when England got on the Universal band wagon (ironically right after the death of famed vampire extraordinaire Bela Lugosi), other European countries on the main continent followed suit, usually with much T&A and an almost animated look in its filming technique. Fortunately, this one focuses more on atmosphere, and while there are definitely some very busty women, they keep their clothes on. The very voluptuous Anita Ekberg gets the privilege of playing a dual role, a modern day heiress to the Italian castle of her descendent's, and her own grandmother, once burnt to death by villagers for alleged witchcraft, and now stalking the castle and nearby village for prey. Julian Ugarte is her older but still sexy "uncle" who has undead secrets of his own, and his goal is to keep Ekberg's modern day innocent heroine there as part of an effort to end the family curse.Certainly, this isn't anything that 1960's horror aficionados hadn't seen before with "The Fearless Vampire Killers" and other similar tales of the undead haunting second string movie theaters and drive-ins around this time. (Check out "The Vampire Happening" for an outrageous comic take on similar themes with plenty of T&A to go around.) This one has a fantastically eerie atmosphere, but there are some slow patches and some confusing plot elements which in retrospect make little sense. But the moments of true horror do pop in and out, and there's a very funny moment when an Italian playboy, unaware that his latest target is really a vampire, allows her to role-play in what he believes to be a sexual game of desire. The fate of one of the undead is truly graphic, if not gory, and it is the lack of flesh and blood which makes that scene even more morbid and spine-chilling. The twist at the very end is too silly to be tolerable, but like me, you may find yourself laughing in spite of the fact that your eyes are rolling at the same time.

Some sort of nonsense about a woman inheriting a castle filled with vampires.Actually I'm not sure since the print I saw ran 75 minutes which is 25 minutes shorter than the original release version and 10 minutes shorter than the original American release. To be fair I won't comment on what was clearly a mess due to too much editing other than to say Anita Ekberg who stars is often shrill. Though to be perfectly honest I don't know if I'd actually go back and watch the complete film given the chance since what was on screen in this version struck me as awfully silly.

***SPOILER ALERT*** Only worth watching for it's star attraction the bust-out Swedish actress Anita Ekberg in a duel role as top Italian fashion model Sylvia Morel and 17th Century burned at the stake witch Malenka.Sylvia gets the news that she inherited the Wadrick Castle and the title of countess on the eve of her wedding to handsome Dr.Pietro Lufuani. It soon turns out that Sylvia didn't just inherit the castle and title of countess but her creepy Uncle, the keeper of Waldrick Castle, Count Walbrooke's bloodlines. The Count's bloodlines goes back some 600 years to the area around the Carpathian Mountains in Medieval Europe. It's doesn't take a genius to realize that Uncle or Count Walbrooke isn't as young as he looks being that he died at least over 100 years ago. It's also very obvious, from the moment you lay eyes on him, that the pasty looking and ice cold to the touch Count Walbrooke is actually a member of the living dead, a blood sucking vampire! Who needs fresh and above room temperature, at 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, human blood in order for him to survive.Keeping the beautiful Sylvia under lock and key in his castle Count Walbrooke attracts the attention of not only her far off, back in Rome, fiancée Dr. Lufuani but the terrified townspeople of near by Wadrick! Of whom, mostly sexy and well endowed young women, the Count feeds, or sucks, on for his daily or nightly supply of human blood! It also turns out that the Count later, after sucking them dry, turns his victims into vampires like himself to join his army of the walking dead.Traveling to Wadrick together with his friend Max Dr.Lufuani attempts to rescue Sylvia from Count Walbrooke's clutches only ending up a prisoner in his castle. Sylvia who during the entire time played along with her sinister Uncle Walbrooke, in making believe she was hypnotized by him, frees the chained up Dr. Lufuani just before the Count was to take a bite out of him. It's later in the movie that the good doctor gives the Count the medical prescription needed to cure his craving for human blood: A flaming stake in the heart cooked medium to well done!