Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

adriangr The Dracula Saga is a rather ragged attempt at a costume horror movie that sadly fails on more levels than it succeeds. The story follows a young couple travelling to a remote castle in central Europe to visit the remaining family relations of the wife, who is pregnant. Along the way villagers warn them that the castle is evil, and dead bodies are found along the way with neck wounds. Nothing very original there! On arrival at the castle, all manner of strange things happen as the truth about the family background is revealed...which should come as no surprise, bearing in mind the title of the movie! There is a fair amount of nudity, with lots of female cast members removing their blouses, and some gruesome action as well, especially at the movie's climax.Unfortunately the enjoyment of all this is hampered by some very basic shoddiness. Although Deimos Films have found a beautiful clean print, and colours are rich and clear, a lot of shots are out of focus. No amount of remastering can correct badly focused photography, and it really shows. Several shots also have a gauze-like mesh effect overlaid on them, which at first I thought was a technical issue, but in reflection it might have been a failed attempt by the director to add atmosphere. The acting is not very good, the English language dub is truly awful, and in another bizarre lapse of continuity, the heroine clearly wears different wigs in different scenes throughout the story!I suppose this accounts for why Leon Klimovsky never made it as a big name horror director. Having a stunning authentic castle as a setting and adding lots of bare boobs does not make up for all the other budgetary and artistic shortcomings. Even European beauty Helga Line (in a minor role) is wasted here. I do love Deimos' presentation of these Euro horrors, they do very well with the quality, packaging and DVD features. This is just not one of the better movies.

jacobjohntaylor1 There are a lot of Dracula movies made around this time that were great . And this is not one them. This Dracula sequel unlike most Dracula sequels is not scary. It is badly written. Badly acted. It has an awful ending. Don't wast your money. Don't wast your time. Don't see this movie. It is about Dracula trying find his descendants who don't know he his a vampire. He trying to turn them into vampires. This could have been a good movie. If it was not so badly acted. So badly written and had such an awful ending. Pooh pooh, pooh pooh, pooh pooh, pooh pooh, and pee pee to. Don't see this movie. Don't see it. Don't see it Don't see it.

Witchfinder General 666 Director Léon Klimovsky is probably best known for his collaborations with the Spanish Horror/Exploitation/Cult icon Paul Naschy, most notably for what is maybe also Naschy's most famous film, "La Noche De Walpurgis" (aka. "The Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman", 1971), which is the most widely known of fourteen films in which Naschy played the Werewolf Waldemar Daninsky. Klimovsky made quite a bunch of slightly bizarre Gothic Horror films, which are not all the same quality. Even though Naschy is not involved in this film, "La Saga De Los Drácula" aka. "The Saga of the Draculas" aka. "The Dracula Saga" of 1973 is certainly one of Klimovsky's better films. "La Saga De Los Drácula" is a very different approach to the common Dracula topic which is interesting, to say the least. This time, it is not merely the famous Count, but an entire family of noble blood-suckers that cause fear in the Transylvanian mountains.The pregnant young Berta (Tina Sáinz) and her husband are moving to Transsylvania to be with Tina's family, the patriarch of which is her grandfather - Count Dracula (Narciso Ibáñez Menta). The elderly Count lives with his three gorgeous brides (Helga Liné, Betsabé Ruiz and Maria Kosty) as well as some other relatives. Needless to say that the Dracula family's favorite beverage isn't raspberry juice, which the innocent Berta and her husband are entirely unaware of..."La Saga De Los Drácula" is an overall very interesting and highly atmospheric film that bears more surprises and unexpected elements than one might think. Spanish Gothic Horror films such as Klimovsky's usually have a very particular inimitable charm to them, and "La Saga De Los Drácula" a good example for that. Even though the budget obviously wasn't gigantic, the atmosphere is eerily beautiful, and the plot is quite original. The female cast members are entirely gorgeous, especially the red-headed Helga Liné, who is known for her (often sexy) roles in other European Gothic Horror productions including "Nightmare Castle", "Horror Rises From the Tomb", "Las Garras De Lorelei", "Mio Caro Assassino" and others. As it is to be expected, the film includes its share of nudity, sleaze and gore. Narciso Ibáñez Menta is a very unusual (since very old, and comparably un-villainous) Count Dracula, which isn't a bad thing; on the contrary, this different version of the most famous of Vampires contributes to the film's originality. The cinematography is elegant as in all Klimovsky films, and the music by Johann Sebastian Bach fits the film amazingly well, especially the harpsichord parts.Overall, "La Saga De Los Drácula" is a highly original Vamprie film that does more than to simply deliver what is expected, and highly recommendable to my fellow Eurohorror buffs.

Paul Andrews La Saga de los Dracula, or The Dracula Saga as it's known to most English speaking audiences, is set in Transylvania where the last of the Draculas live, they are a dying species & are almost extinct. Count Dracula (Narciso Ibanez Menta) has invited his pregnant Granddaughter Berta (Tina Sainz) to her childhood castle after having been living in London for many years, together with her husband Hans (Tony Isbert) she travels to Transylvania & onwards to 'Vlad Castle' despite the ominous warnings from superstitious locals & discovering a woman near the castle almost totally drained of blood. Count Draculas administrator Gabor (J.J Paladino) picks Berta & Hans up from the hotel they've been staying in & takes them to the castle to reunite Berta with her Grandfather Count Dracula & her two Cousins Irina (Cristina Suriani) & Xenia (Maria Kosti). Once there the castle seems deserted, furthermore while looking at her Grandmothers coffin in the family crypt Berta finds coffins with her Garndfathers & Cousins names on them. Things begin to get nasty, Berta suffers from nightmares, the wine they are given to drink tastes horrible & looks suspiciously like blood, Hans disappears & there happens to be a mutant one-eyed web fingered kid locked up in the castle belonging to Count Dracula, he needs a child of his own to carry on the Dracula name & Berta is about to give birth...This Spanish production was directed by Leon Klimovsky & I have to say I really liked it, a lot. La Saga de los Dracula seems to be a pretty obscure film with very little information about it on the internet, I personally think this is a bit of an injustice as there are so many crap Euro horror films out there this deserves much better, I think it might be because it doesn't have Paul Naschy in it! Anyway, the script by Emilio Martinez Lazaro & Juan Tebar is a classic Gothic Dracula tale but has enough ideas & individuality to stand out on it's own. From the superstitious locals, the castle, the caped Count Dracula, the innocents, sleeping in coffins & plenty of blood drinking. The film moves along at a nice pace & while it's far from the most exciting or action packed Dracula film it's very entertaining & has a good solid watchable story helped by decent character's & dialogue. The twist that comes towards the end also surprised me a bit as I definitely wasn't expecting it, basically La Saga de los Dracula is just a fantastically told Dracula story that I personally enjoyed watching & I loved the climax where Berta decides to take some sweet revenge on her family with an axe! One thing that did annoy me is that we, the viewer that is, never actually get to find out what that wine really was, it was implied that it's blood but it's never confirmed. On the negative side I would have liked a bit more blood & gore in it although this is a minor gripe as a horror film doesn't have to be gory or violent to be good, although it helps!Director the late Klimovsky, who has 77 films credited to him as director alone, does a wonderful job & this has to be one of the best looking Dracula films I've ever seen. The best way I can describe it is as a Spanish Hammer film but even better, from the fantastic brickwork castle, the candlelit dungeons, crypts & dining rooms along with the spooky woods, graveyards & local village. The props, costumes & production design are sumptuous, from the horse drawn carriages & long white curtains flapping in the breeze to the period dresses & corsets to the amount of detail. I loved the way La Saga de los Dracula looked, it has a brilliant atmosphere even when nothing is happening on screen it still felt just a little bit eerie, there are a couple of cool shocks & as a whole the film is great to look at. There's not much gore here, there's a really freaky nasty looking deformed mutant kid, a couple of Vampire attacks, someone is stabbed which involves a very impressive special effect, someones head falls off during a dream sequence & at the climax Berta runs riot with an axe although very little graphic gore is seen apart from her chopping someones hand off. There's a fair amount of nudity as well.Technically La Saga de los Dracula is far better than you would expect, it's a fantastic looking film although it's let down by some poor English dubbing as usual for these types of low budget Euro horror. The acting was OK & the ladies are pretty enough.I wasn't expecting to but I really liked La Saga de los Dracula & that's the biggest recommendation I can give it. If you like this sort of Euro horror than I can't recommend La Saga de los Dracula enough, a real surprise & a bit of a treat.