Evil
of Dracula is the third and final film in the Legacy of Dracula series. It plays more like a loose remake of first movie,
except with different characters and locations. It’s also the most wildly uneven of the bunch, resulting in a lot of highs and lows. Those highs make for some memorable moments though.
A
professor (Toshio Kurosawa) gets a job at an all-girl boarding school. He’s shocked to learn the principal (Shin
Kishida) keeps his dead wife down in the basement.
You know. Just in case she wakes
up. As is usually the case with these
elite girls’ school. Nothing unusual
here. I guess it goes without saying
that the prof starts seeing vampire babes floating around the corridors at
night. What makes these vampires
different (or awesome, depending on your point of view) is that they like to
bite their victims right on the boob.
Unlike its chaste predecessors, there’s a little nudity this time out, which makes some of the more sluggish passages somewhat bearable. There’s also more atmosphere here than in the second entry, Lake of Dracula, although nearly not as much as the first one. The girls’ school location gives this installment a unique flavor, which helps, especially when some of the scenes and shots are nearly identical to ones found in the first movie.
Like
Lake, it kinda dawdles during the second act.
Stay with it though, and you will be treated to plenty of boob biting,
copious bloodletting, and a nifty face ripping scene. The fun finale makes up for some of the pacing
problems found elsewhere in the flick, although it doesn’t quite redeem the
entire production.
Still,
despite a general sense of unevenness that runs rampant throughout the three
films, I’d say for fans of bloodsucking cinema, the Legacy of Dracula series is
one franchise worth sinking your teeth into.
AKA: Bloodsucking Rose. AKA:
The Bloodthirsty Roses.
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