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‘Horror beyond belief… lies waiting for all who dare enter the vampire’s dungeon!’
Blood of Dracula’s Castle is a 1969  horror film in which the Count and his wife capture beautiful young women and chain them in their dungeon, to be used when they need to satisfy their thirst for blood.

The movie was co-produced and directed by Al Adamson (Nurse Sherri; Brain of Blood; Dracula vs. Frankenstein) from a screenplay by co-producer Rex Carlton (Nightmare in Wax; Unearthly Stranger).

The Paragon International Picture stars John Carradine, Paula Raymond, Alex D’Arcy and Robert Dix.

Cinematographer László Kovács later worked on many mainstream big-budget movies including genre-related entries Ghostbusters (1984) and Copycat (1995).

Production manager John ‘Bud’ Cardos went on to direct Mutant; The Day Time Ended; The Dark and Kingdom of the Spiders.

Plot:
Count Dracula (Alexander D’Arcy) and his vampire wife (Paula Raymond), hiding behind the pseudonyms of Count and Countess Townsend, lure girls to Falcon Rock Castle in the Mojave desert to be drained of blood by their butler George (John Carradine), who then mixes real Bloody Mary cocktails for the couple.

Then the real owners of the castle show up, along with escaped convict Johnny. Dracula wants to force the young couple to sell…

Reviews:
“As an attempt to update the Dracula myth to present-day America, Blood of Dracula’s Castle is simply too forced and badly done to be successful, though is fairly gruesome for its time.” Phil Hardy (editor), The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror book

Cast and characters:
John Carradine … George – the Butler
Paula Raymond … Countess Townsend – Hand of Death; Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
Alexander D’Arcy … Count Dracula – alias Count Charles Townsend (as Alex D’Arcy) – Horrors of Spider Island
Robert Dix … Johnny – Forbidden Planet
Gene Otis Shane … Glen Cannon (as Gene O’Shane)
Jennifer Bishop … Liz Arden (as Barbara Bishop)
Vicki Volante … Ann – Motorist Victim – Brain of Blood; Horror of the Blood Monsters
Ray Young … Mango
John ‘Bud’ Cardos … Prison Guard (as John Cardos)
Ken Osborne … Telegram Delivery Man
Ewing Miles Brown … Man
Joyce King … Body in Water

Filming locations:
Castle Ranch (aka Shea Castle and Sky Castle) – 44901 Fairmont Road, Lancaster, California – also location for Machete Joe; Sutures; Dracula Sucks
Hollywood Stage – 2815 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California (interiors)
Marineland of the Pacific, 6610 Palos Verdes Drive South, Rancho Palos Verdes, California
Palos Verdes Peninsula, California (opening sequence)

Release:
Premiered in Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 14, 1969. It was released by exploitation film specialists Crown International Pictures.

Film Facts:

For TV, one version of the film was retitled Dracula’s Castle, and extra footage of an actor in a werewolf mask killing a prison guard and chasing a woman through the woods was inserted.

Horror films from 1969

Trailer:

Full film free to watch online:

Suggested double-bill:

Dracula vs. Frankenstein (Al Adamson, 1971)

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