Vampires

First of all, let's get this out of the way. There's a lot of 70s nudity in this movie. It's also billed as an "Adult Vampire Sex Comedy" so they really lean into it. Also, it's a low-budget movie from the 70s so expectations are a bit different. I can't quantify this as a "good" or "bad" movie, it's just an oddity in my opinion.

The movie is about an American actress who inherits a castle in Transylvania (pretty standard so far). She moves into the castle and learns she looks just like her ancestor, who was supposedly a vampire. The caretaker shows the actress the tomb where her ancestor was buried. She opens the tomb and finds her ancestor still looks exactly like her (hasn't decomposed) and runs away, leaving the tomb open. The vampire ancestor (played by the same person, of course) wakes up and climbs out of her tomb. Then we have a lot of wacky misdirection where the human actress and vampire ancestor constantly swap places to seduce/bite men in the village.

Anyway, the part of the movie that's really weird to me is in the later half of the movie where the vampire is invited to a party at the neighboring castle. The party is just.... so very very 70s.

Everyone at this party is a vampire and every actor/extra they hired are all just so goofy. And I wonder if this is just how people partied in the 70s. No one is trying to be cool or suave, they're all just silly. And I don't think they were leaning into the comedy aspect of the movie for this scene; I get the impression this is actually how people in the 70s had a good time. It's one of those things where at the time it was being filmed they wouldn't think anything of it; but me watching it so many decades removed is just fascinated by their actions. And it makes me think about these vampires being centuries old, living through various changes in fashion and behaviors, and living to see this as how people partied.

Anyway, the party is in honor of Dracula, who keeps making the devil horns gesture as if that's something he's famous for doing.

So yeah, this is just an odd movie in my opinion and I wanted to share. Come for the 70s nudity, stay for the odd window into how people partied in the 70s.

Here's a (nsfw) trailer on amazon. You can watch it on Prime, Roku, and Plex if you're curious.