Tag: Jeannine Mestre

BR: Count Dracula / Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht (1970)

BR: Count Dracula / Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht (1970)

March 25, 2016 | By

Jess Franco’s Count Dracula is an example of what happens when certain parameters designed to bolster a production’s salability reduce a filmmaker, known for sex and violence and trippy perversions, to a hired gun, and a bored one at that…

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Film: Umbracle (1970)

Film: Umbracle (1970)

March 25, 2016 | By

During the filming of Jess Franco’s Count Dracula (1970), experimental filmmaker Pere Portabello was engaged to direct a making-of documentary, titled Cuadecuc, vampir (1971), and sometime before, during, or after, it seems star Christopher Lee was snagged to appear in a few scenes which Portabello edited into a feature film…

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