''Dracula Sucks'' is a 1978 American

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directed and co-written by Philip Marshak. The film is based on the 1931 film ''

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'', and the 1897 novel of the same name by

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. It stars

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, a

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who purchases an estate next to a mental institution. The film also stars Annette Haven, John Leslie, Serena,

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, and John Holmes. An alternate cut of ''Dracula Sucks'', titled ''Lust at First Bite'', has also been released.

Plot

In a psychiatric institution patients are acting oddly and are being found with bite marks in their necks. Professor Van Helsing believes it to be the work of vampires and just when things are bad, it gets worse with the arrival of Count Dracula.

Cast

* Annette Haven as Mina * John Leslie as Dr. Arthur Seward * Serena as Lucy Webster *

as Dr. Van Helsing (as Detlef van Berg) *

as Dr. Sybil Seward * John Holmes as Dr. John Stoker * Mike Ranger as Dr. Peter Bradley * Paul Thomas as

Jonathan Harker Jonathan Harker is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists of Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel '' Dracula''. His journey to Transylvania and encounter with the vampire Count Dracula and his Brides at Castle Dracula consti ...

* Richard Bulik as Richard Renfield * Pat Manning as Irene Renfield * David Lee Bynum as Jarvis * Seka as Nurse Betty Lawson

Critical reception

Kristen Sollee of ''

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'' called the film "a gem from the first wave of horror porn."

Home media

In October 2014, ''Dracula Sucks'' was released on

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. In August 2018, Vinegar Syndrome released the film on

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as part of their ''5 Films 5 Years Volume #3'' set, a release which also contains four other films. In 2021, it was released on 4k UHD and Bluray under the Peekarama label .

References

External links

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