Dracula Sucks 4K 1978

Story Movie

“Dracula Sucks” (1978) in 4K looks like a frank but surprisingly atmospheric variation on the classic vampire story, with horror, sex and parody constantly intermingling, sometimes awkwardly but often amusingly and even inventively. The movie is appreciated for its dark sets, respectful references to the Béla Lugosi version, and the unexpectedly earnest acting of Jamie Gillis and Reggie Nalder, who give the proceedings a sense of “real” gothic horror amidst the explicit content. The 4K release from Vinegar Syndrome, with a new scan from the original 35mm negative, yields a highly detailed, grainy, organic image with deep blacks, saturated colors and natural flesh tones that make the old exploitation film look as “cinematic” as possible on a modern screen.

Review 4K Movie

The candid horror film Dracula Sucks turned out to be much more atmospheric and well thought out than one might expect from an adult film: viewers note the high-quality sets, gothic imagery, and the feeling of a "real" vampire movie, overlaid with hardcore scenes. Many users write that the film looks almost like a normal gothic horror movie with a full cast and Annette Haven, Jamie Gillis, and Reggie Nalder trying to act seriously, while the amount and duration of sex is, on the contrary, less than in the usual porn of that time. At the same time, the cons often mentioned include the drawn-out running time, uneven pace, and the fact that the film sometimes hovers between genres: as pure horror, it is too sprinkled with sex, and as porn, it pays too much attention to the plot and dialogue, which makes it more interesting to connoisseurs of strange cult cinema than to those who are simply looking for erotica.