Blood for Dracula

They're very, very similar films.

They're even shot in the same locales, which we see, you know, Blood for Dracula, Flesh for Frankenstein, Burial Ground...

All shot...

Oh, God, I wish I could remember the name of the place.

Yes.

So Blood for Dracula is one of my all-time favorites.

It stars Udo Kier, who is like one of my...

I adore Udo so much.

All right.

He says, my number one pick is obviously Blood for Dracula.

That's kind of funny.

I just watched this recently.

Blood for Dracula.

Andy Warhol's Looking for Legends.

I love that one.

First up, born on October 14, 1944 is Udo Kier.

Remembering the cult icon of Flesh for Frankenstein, Blood for Dracula, Suspiria, and Blade.

A face that could make a perfectly ordinary introduction feel, [sighs] not ordinary to say the least.

There's no one quite like Udo Kier.

Yeah, and he did two films in 1971, Hugh, and he got Shiver of the Vampires and Requiem for a Vampire in the same year.

The film that it kind of reminded me of, I didn't mention this on the pod, but I was getting vibes of the, remember the Udo Kier vampire movie we saw, Dan, Blood for Dracula? Yeah, yeah.

There was a lot of that going on, I felt.

But oddly, I feel like I got on with this one better than I got on better with Blood for Dracula.

Yeah.

but Blood for Dracula was a bit more linear and a bit more sort of like you know the plotting was clearer but I don't know why I feel like I got on with this better

Even Daughters of Darkness flashed in my head at times.

Yeah, yeah, I can see that, yeah.

Um, she, we, we ended up watching, um, these movies, uh, a couple of years ago.

Um, I don't know if you've ever heard of, like, um, Flesh for Frankenstein or Blood for Dracula.

I've heard of Blood for Dracula.

Um, that's the better one of the two.

Um, these are, um, movies that were released, like, produced by Andy Warhol, um, directed and written by one of his chief collaborators, Paul Morrissey.

Whatever.

Um, so he, you know, he's known for things like Flesh for Frankenstein, Blood of, Blood for Dracula.

These are cl- classic Criterion DVD titles.

Um, you know, uh, Trash, and Heat, and Mixed Blood, which got a, um, a Vinegar Syndrome, I believe, disc recently.

And Borgnine is always great, you know? Um, but yeah, just the idea of, you know, falling for the wrong girl, getting yourself in trouble, and just the very New Yorkness of this movie is quite palpable and memorable.

Um, and I'm, I'll be honest, like, Paul Morrissey is not necessarily my kind of filmmaker.

I, I've seen one or both of Blood for Dracula and Flesh for Frankenstein, I can't remember which, and I just, it wasn't for me necessarily.

Whereas something like this, um, which, you know, would fall more into the '80s teen comedy area, you know? Almost like, say, I mean, I don't want to compare it to Last American Virgin, but there's a certain kind of similar energy that I was feeling there, um, with something like that.