Paul Naschy, Count Dracula’s Great Love
“Behind each kiss hides a horror of terrifying realism!” Throughout his long career, Paul Naschy—the “Spanish Lon Chaney”—frequently directed his own films, and though he’s not behind the camera on Count Dracula’s Great Love, he did co-write it. This luridly entertaining tale sees Count Dracula masquerading as a doctor who offers hospitality toward a group of young women when their coach breaks down near his hulking manse… while, of course, secretly plotting to suck their blood and also use some of that blood to resurrect his beloved daughter. Naschy most often played a werewolf over the years, but he has no trouble commanding the screen in vampire mode here.
