Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood (2004)
A classy piece of erotic vampire cinema which stars the iconic Paul Naschy in his first American movie and boasts impressive special effects by John Carl Buechler of Friday the 13th Part IV: The New Blood.
The great Naschy performs little more than a cameo during the first twenty minutes in a flashback scene where he speaks in his native Spanish whilst co-star Mark Bedell speaks English - it makes for quite an odd piece of movie making if i'm honest. Naschy does have a great line in which he sends himself up by declaring "I don't believe in Werewolves".
As far as horror films go it's nothing more than a silicon enhanced soft-core romp with lengthy sequences of girl on girl action, many featuring the voluptuous Glori-Anne Gilbert - think Andy Sidaris goes horror with a blonde Julie Strain and you'll be on the right track. Special mention goes out to Renfield (Del Howison), he's an absolute hoot nibbling on flies from a silver snuff box whilst looking more like he should be selling out arena's with Foreigner or Journey with his white flowing locks and silk shirt.
Set design is good, the acting reasonable and there's plenty of blood sucking (most often off boobs), all in all Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood ups the stakes when it comes to erotic horror cinema.
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