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It's hard to believe that Louise Fletcher starred in this crappy horror comedy just a few years after winning an Oscar for ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. It is also hard to believe that Maria Schneider also got involved in this mess just a few years after gaining critical acclaim and international renown for THE LAST TANGO IN PARIS.
Fletcher stars as MAMA DRACULA, who stays young by bathing in the blood of virgins. Her vampire servants are effeminate twin brothers with big noses. In addition to being vampires, they are also fashion designers who own a clothing boutique. They kidnap virgins (or "wirgins" as they say) from the dressing room and bring them home to mama. One customer (a little girl) is able to escape because she has a cross on the front of her panties and a Star of David on the back.
Eventually, mama gets tired of sacrificing virgins, so she invites a professor to her castle and orders him to develop a formula for synthetic blood.
This movie is totally useless and horrible. It is painful to watch. The attempts at humor are feeble and amateurish. And EVERY character in the movie is an annoying ass. By the end of this piece of garbage, I wanted to fling my shoe through the TV screen. But if you INSIST on watching it, you can find it in the DRIVE-IN MOVIE CLASSICS 50 MOVIE PACK.
The Burgomaster Wrote:
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> It's hard to believe that Louise Fletcehr starred
> in this crappy horror comedy just a few years
> after winning an Oscar for ONE FLEW OVER THE
> CUCKOO'S NEST.
Has any Oscar winner ever sunk so low so fast? Other than Cuba Gooding Jr. in Boat Trip.
> Her vampire
> servants are effeminate twin brothers with big
> noses.
They are agonizingly unfunny and mug in way that even Jerry Lewis would find over the top. Then just to be even more irritating they have the nerve to rip-off the mirror scene from the Marx Brother's Duck Soup and of course it isn't funny.
> This movie is totally useless and horrible. It is
> painful to watch. The attempts at humor are
> feeble and amateurish. And EVERY character in the
> movie is an annoying ass. By the end of this
> piece of garbage, I wanted to fling my shoe
> through the TV screen.
Amen!
The whole thing feels like a slap-dash production where they were making it up as they went along. That one along with 'I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now', Black Hooker and Hot Pursuit are the worst one's in that Drive-In set that I've seen so far the rest have some redeming value.
Sounds brilliantly bad....
Shadowphile Wrote:
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> Sounds brilliantly bad....
...thats what Im thinking.
"Fangs" for bringing this to my attention ...*cough*
Kind of off topic here, but I just finally ordered the 50 movie drive-in pack, which includes this movie and am estatic! Can't wait to see some of the horrors collected in this set, intentional or otherwise.
dc:
Make sure you watch THE GUY FROM HARLEM when you get this set. It is an impossibly cheap and hilariously bad blaxploitation movie.
I alllmost bought this at the flea market one day,but instead I picked up Franco's Revenge of the House of Usher. I shoulda got MAMA DRACULA. Usher was REALLY lousy!
This sounds wonderful!
Must find . . .
peter johnson/denny crane