Zoltan Hound of Dracula (1978)
Wow, i'd forgotten much of what takes place here. A film that is so staggeringly offbeat. Only it's opening scenes where Zoltan revives his master by pulling a stake out of him and together they go off searching for the last descendant of Dracula bare any resemblance to anything approaching a Dracula movie.
The remainder of the the film, as in the next hour and fifteen minutes involves Zoltan and his master (Reggie Nalder) in what can only be described as a backwoods action film where campers are attacked by dogs. I should add that it's also a hell of a lot of fun. Think The Hills Have Eyes but with dogs and that's pretty much the entire movie.
I should mention Zoltan himself who is a Dobermann with false fangs stuck on the side of his mouth and in truth never looks like a killer dog. At one point i did think there was a rather sadistic scene where Zoltan kills a puppy for no reason but thankfully that wasn't the case as he turned the puppy which in turn gave us the brilliantly original sequence with a vampire puppy bursting out of the ground. What's equally brilliant is that Zoltan has his own doggy coffin to sleep in. That's just awesome.
Zoltan Hound of Dracula is silly but great fun and i hope StudioCanal release it as part of their Cult Classics line with a tacky slip cover, art cards and a commentary by Kim Newman. Seriously, just take my money, it's yours.
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