This film was in a double bill along with ' Teenage Frankenstein ' the UK title losing the American ' I Was A Teenage Frankenstein. ' Blood of Dracula ' was given the title of ' Blood Is My Heritage ' and the latter in my opinion was the more imaginative title. Dracula films were everywhere at the time. Unlike America children under 16 were not admitted, and both were given the X certificate that the UK censor thought they should have. The poster was lurid and asked people not to eat before seeing this double bill and of course it was a big success. I shall call this film ' Blood Is My Heritage ' as it seemed at the time the most alluring. The story has lots of Lesbian undertones as it is a woman who makes the girl into a Vampire and once transformed she murders both sexes with equal ' pleasure '. Something Queer indeed for its time, which a few in the audience must have noticed, especially Lesbians and Gay men. Pairing it with ' Teenage Frankenstein reinforced that as the crazy scientist chooses a hunk of a youth and gets him to kill his wife. The horror in ' Teenage Frankenstein ' is much more explicit. Viewers should check both of them out on YouTube, where they can be found. In my opinion in their negative way they could appeal to Queer sensibilities as well as straight viewers who could judge for themselves.
Review of Blood of Dracula
