FORMAT: DVD
Dracula (Darian Caine) comes to Los Angeles and seduces Mina Harker (Misty Mundae). She turns Mina into a vampire, much to the chagrin of her wife, Johnathan (Julian Wells). It’s then up to Abigail Van Helsing (Shelly Jones) to set things right.
We’ve seen plenty of lesbian vampire movies from Seduction Cinema, so what makes this one different? Well, for starters, director Anthony Marsiglia likes to linger on shots of freshly shaven female genitalia. So, that’s a plus.
It’s also more serious and artsy than say, your typical John Bacchus movie. That might sound appealing, but Marsiglia’s style is too erratic for its own good. The constant crosscutting, dissolves, and cutaway shots during the action tends to get a bit irksome. I guess he was trying to spice things up and make Lust for Dracula “respectable”, but it ultimately makes what should’ve been a straightforward sex scene confusing. Maybe it was just Marsiglia’s way of disguising the fact that there was only about nine minutes of plot in a ninety-minute movie.
Still, there is scads of nudity to go around, which is nice. Because of the odd editing techniques, you sometimes get two or three sex scenes happening simultaneously, which helps to beef up the Skinamax Score considerably. (There is an even dozen nude and/or sex scenes in the first twenty minutes alone.) The graphic close-ups of women touching themselves are near-hardcore, which helps make this one of the naughtier Seduction Cinema films in their catalogue.
After the odd first act, it finally settles into a fairly standard, low budget, modern-day retread of Dracula. If you can get past the bizarre opening, it’s an okay lesbian vampire epic, even if it’s sluggishly paced and the sex becomes more infrequent as it goes along. (Misty and Darian do get a hot nocturnal poolside scene before all is said and done.) Then, there’s the ending which doesn’t really make sense, but were you really expecting coherence from an enterprise such as this?
I can’t say you’ll be lusting after this one any time soon, but Lust for Dracula isn’t bad. It’s certainly far from the worst “serious” Seduction Cinema effort I’ve seen. That is, if you consider a movie where Misty Mundae reads a children’s book to a bat “serious”.
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