Dracula gets the Andy Warhol treatment - and lives! Although this horror flick is part of the Warhol franchise - indeed it's alternative title is Warhol's Dracula - it was directed by his movie-making maestro Paul Morrissey, and with some brio too. The young Udo Keir makes a rather splendid, sexy, lustful Drac in quite a change from previous impersonators like Bela Lugosi, though he maintains his authority and danger despite his pretty-boy looks. Although there are lashings of sex and violence - well it does say Blood for Dracula - in most other ways the film plays fair and square with the Dracula legend as the blood-hungry one despairs of finding virgins in Transylvania and treks off to Italy, where he finds that nobleman Vittorio De Sica's four pretty daughters are looking for husbands. Naturally being from the Warhol stable, the film is camp and homoerotic, with much of the attention on Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro, playing a gardener out to save virgins by changing their status. All very amateurish, innocent and likeable in its gory sort of way. What are cinema giants De Sica and Roman Polanski doing in this sort of farrago, though?

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