Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Perfectly adorable

A Brilliant Conflict

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Grave of the Vampire (1972) *** (out of 4)A young couple leave a party and head to a cemetery where they begin to make out. At the same time Caleb Croft (Michael Pataki) is coming out of his grave. Caleb attacks the couple, killing the man and raping the woman. The woman ends up pregnant and delivers a young child who, you guessed it, needs blood and not milk. Thirty- years later the mom dies but the son, James Eastman (William Smith), goes out looking for his father.John Hayes' GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE is without question one of the strangest vampire films that you're going to see. The vampire genre delivered countless movies throughout the 1970s and there were some very strange ones ranging from hardcore films like Dracula SUCKS to low-budget weirdos like VAMPIRE HOOKERS. This one here takes its subject very seriously and we've given a bizarre family drama dealing with vampires!Whereas a low-budget often harms films, it actually helps this one because there's no lavish scenes that couldn't be pulled off and instead the director works well with the low-budget and manages to build up an atmosphere that is terrific. The atmosphere of the film is quite wonderful and it's certainly the best thing about the picture. The opening scenes inside the cemetery have fog machines in overdrive and you really do get an eerie sense with the graveyard setting. The second half of the film is quite different but you've still got that atmosphere that leaves you feeling it as the picture moves along.I also thought the story, from David Chase, offers up a lot of twists and turns as far as the vampire myth goes. The film's story isn't a familiar one and I thought the screenplay did a very good job at offer up new ideas as well as a different way to work with the vampires. The performances are another plus and especially with Pataki who is wonderful in the lead role. I thought he managed to be quite menacing as the vampire and he certainly adds to the entertainment. Supporting players were all good as well.GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE certainly isn't going to be for everyone but fans of the genre will find enough interesting things here to make this worth sitting through, despite Leonard Maltin's BOMB rating.

I have decided to work on the giant pile of movies and TV shows I never want to watch and this is the lucky winner that gets to be seen first.I would have to assume it's the first time it has ever won anything.Even though the movie is very slow moving with lots of time where nothing is happening, they still don't show a lot of stuff.They make you guess at what has happened for a few minutes, then they almost explain.It's annoying but it's also the best thing about this movie.So they spend a half hour on a crazy woman who got raped by a vampire and is having it's baby.The vampire just took her into his coffin and then it just cuts to her being pregnant.I really don't see how a normal person could have thought anything sexual had happened.She acts like it's her dead boyfriends baby and says it will be normal, even though the doctor tells her it is dead.It's all so confusing and senseless and then it just cuts to the future and he's grown up and looking to kill his father.That's right, halfway through the movie they just start a different movie.Did I mention it also has horrible acting? This should never be seen by anyone.

Seed of Terror aka Grave of the Vampire (1972). This one is has a different twist on a vampire story. It's a pretty good film from the 1970s that worth watching for vampire fans.There is a rape which leaves the victim pregnant with a monstrous child - a child that drinks the blood from it's mother instead of her milk. When full grown, he become a vicious killer - a vampire.This is somewhat comparable to Hammer Horror but not exactly like the Hammer films - at any rate if you like the Hammer, Tigon or Amicus films then you might like Grave of the Vampire.7/10

Bad quality of the reel, intact. Bad score editing, yes it hurt my ears. A lot of hiss, yesssssssssssssssss. Hue problems, OMG! No blood or nudity, not a drip or a tit. Cheap score, indeed very simple but effective. Carnival make-up, o did it contain make-up? Simple effects, just some dental issues. Scary vampire, hmmmm, he walks in the sun so no. Wooden acting, yes and at the end over-the-top acting. And what a funny ending just before the credits. But somehow the script was okay and what the vampire had to tell was okay, surely a good example of drive-in trash, not perfect for todays standards but surely for the grindhouse/drive-in freaks.