Bad Movie Review: Doctor Dracula
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- We find out what happens when "director" Al Adamson takes the naughty 70s flick "Lucifer's Women", cuts out the rude bits and replaces them with John Carradine in Doctor Dracula (1983).
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Summary: An evil hypnotist puts a beautiful woman under his spell.
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I swear John Carradine was born one of those Benjamin Button babies, except he kept getting older.
... so literally nothing like a Benjamin Button baby?
I swear, this umbrella is just like a can of soup, except you can't eat it, and if you open it over your head, you stay dry...
A reincarnation of Svengali? He's hardly even a reincarnation of Svengoolie!
That moment you realise that the best parody adaptation of Dracula is still Count Duckula.
I thought "Count Duckula" was the brand name given to one of those sugary-sweet breakfast cereals for kids. Or rather, was it "Count Chocola" instead? It's so long ago it's hard to remember; as a child I was very much a "Cap'n Crunch" kinda kid.
@@ashleys9397 I think it was chocula? Duckula is an animated series from the 80s starring David Jason as a vegetarian vampire duck. It's available on RUclips, if you wanna check it out.
I love Count Duckula. I wish that series got a complete DVD set release
Not David Niven's 1974 "Old Dracula" ?
@@ashleys9397 Count Chocula ("I van to eat your cereal) and Franken Berry were the original cereal mascots in 1971. Boo Berry the ghost came along a couple of years later, then we got a werewolf named Fruit Brute in 1974. In 1987 they added Fruity Yummy Mummy. These days the "Monster Cereals" are generally only available in stores around Halloween, although I don't recall seeing them this year. Then again, I wasn't looking.
Let me just state for the record that it is a shocking display of amphibian erasure that the Creature From the Black Lagoon has never gotten his own cereal. Also be nice to get the Bride of Franken Berry into the mix so the lineup isn't a total sausage fest. Their signature marshmallows could be little webbed hands and lightning bolts (or perhaps her head with that trademark hairdo) respectively.
None of them have anything to do with Duckula, although there's another fairly popular vegan vampire in the Bunnicula kids' book series. It's a rabbit, of course. Sucks the juice out carrots.
This movie makes total sense to me. Especially when I'm hanging upside down like a giant bat in my castle alcove.
Amongst your own with the titlickers.
I don't know if I heard it right. But a Doctor Dracula movie with the line: "You're exhausting my patients!" would be brilliant. If it's actually what was said in the clip, well, then thumbs up : )
That was taken from a Marx Brothers movie. A gangster tells Groucho, "You're trying my patience." Groucho, a fake doctor, responds, "Thank you, you should try mine sometime."
@@nedludd7622 I've heard a variant in some old B&W flick where a mobster says the same line and the private dick he's talking to responds with "You're not a doctor, and I'll leave it to the DA to see who goes on trial out of this crew." Not bad, I thought, although Groucho's is better.
Tomb of Ligeia is absolutely my favorite (sort-of) reincarnation story. Come for Vincent Price in another brilliant Roger Corman adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe, stay for the brilliant performance of Elizabeth Shepherd, one of relatively few leading ladies who could keep pace with Price's ravenous scenery chewing.
John Carradine played an awesome villain on an episode of Wonder Woman called Gaults Brain. He was a disembodied brain with telekinetic powers.
He was an amazing actor when given the proper role. Poor guy evidently had to take EVERYTHING he was offered.
He was good on The Twilight Zone as brother Jerome in the Howling Man.
@@JPMM316 oh yes he was
That sounds a bit goory for Wonder Woman, but it's right up Carradine's alley.
I remember that. “Get rid of Diana Prince. And make it look like an accident.” So his henchmen stuff her in a metal barrel and throw her into a river.
Somehow my dad got me into a cinema screening of 'Dead Again', even though I was only ten or eleven at the time, and it made an impression on me. I think it was his revenge for me having made him sit through a showing of 'Drop Dead Fred' earlier that afternoon. He refused to go home until he'd seen "something less shit".
I agree with your dad. Drop dead Fred was a terrible waste of Rik Mayall!
Your dad sounds like a really swell guy. Really!
Wainwright's beard is 100% convincing and epic.
"I can't believe you were the vampire all along, Dr. Acula!"
...said Alucard facetiously.
One of my favorite reincarnation movies: DEAD AGAIN.
!!!Possible spoilers!!!
No one in that movie is who they seem to be, sometimes twice over. Great uncredited performance by Robin Williams. It's on Prime, if you want to see it.
I kept my description very general so as not to give away any specific plot points. I did insert a spoiler warning just in case.
Well.... with Carridine you have to choose a bad movie or not enjoying him chewing the scenery.
They cut OUT the original soft core scenes?😭
But Why? Oh Why Why WHY!?!
The MD stands for Medical Dracula, of course. It's all very Bond-esque. "My name is Dracula, Medical Dracula."
I enjoy Carradine in the Twilight Zone Episode ‘The Howling Man,’where he’s a monk that has the devil trapped in a monastery.
So I'm assuming he got his PHD at the University of Transylvania🧛♂️
Dead Again with Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson and Derek Jacobi is a really superior reincarnation murder mystery movie. I don't know if it's available to stream anywhere, but if it is, you should consider reviewing it.
That movie is bonkers
Weren't Kenneth and Emma
married when making that movie?
I read they were quite a pair once.
John Carradine was in an episode of The Green Hornet. He was excellent and to be honest, out-shone pretty much everyone else. The Green Hornet was the first TV role in the US for Bruce Lee. He played the Hornet's assistant Kato. I think the series is still on RUclips
Most of the episodes are, anyway. I binged a fair few back in 2020 out of nostalgia's sake. Had really forgotten most of the details, or maybe I just didn't see as many of them as a(very young) child as I thought I had. Enjoyed it more than Adam West's Batman (which had a guest appearance by GH and Kato as well).
I'm just glad Al Adamson made something slightly better than that "weirdly colored Filipino vampires from outer space" movie. Love the Vlad Dracula T-shirt! For a good reincarnation movie, I recommend 2005's The Skeleton Key, and for sheer fun, 1991's Dead Again.
In response to Robin's question of the facts being cleared up, I have to reply, "Clear as mud to me."
Obviously, I cannot speak for Larry Hankin, but if I got a call that I was needed to help "reshoot a new plot" and my co-star was John Carradine, I'd be ecstatic.
A far better reincarnation movie with John Carradine is The Mummy's Ghost. But The Mummy of 1932 is the champ.
I totally agree, Mark. Who says you need a big budget for a horror movie? In 1932, they got by with the performances. The part where the archaeologist is surprised by the mummy and screams is the highlight!
I once read or, more likely, heard somewhere that the legendary Ed Wood penned (or was going to pen) a script for a film he was going to title "Dr. Acula". But the future project got placed on Mr. Ed's back burner , where it remained. Such a loss for bad movie devotees like ourselves! Does anyone else out there know anything about this?
the completed project was titled Night of the Ghouls with Criswell, Keane Duncan and Kelton the cop. It's my favorite Wood film. My understanding that the film was completed in '59 but Ed couldn't afford to pay the film processing company so there the film sat for 25 years until Wade Williams bought the rights to all of Ed's films.
@@Bigbadwhitecracker You are 100 percent totally correct. At the time Wood was in such desperate pecuniary straits that he couldn't even cough up the five hundred dollars (!) to cover post-production costs such as film processing. I've never previously heard of this Wade Williams; I should learn more about him because he sounds like a positive godsend.
I see DCR, I click and I Like.
You had me at Larry Hankin.
The original Trilby was an insanely popular novel, adapted into an insanely popular play. A style of hat worn by the male lead in the London production became popular and known as… a trilby. (The fedora hat has a similar origin.)
My favorite reincarnation movie has to be "Audrey Rose" Anthony Hopkins was fantastic in it.
"Red flag, RED FLAG" made me laugh 😂
There was a film called Dynamite Brothers that Cinematic Titanic riffed under the name East Meets Watts. I'm bringing that up because there's a car explosion in it that looks EXACTLY like the one at the end of Doctor Dracula. Considering they were both made by Al Adamson I'm guessing he just reused the footage, but I'm not sure which was the original.
That's usually pretty much the case with Al Adamson.
Great channel, great variety, witty commentary.
My fav reincarnation movie is Robo Vampire. The main character is resurrected multiple times. It's also another cinematic hack job just like this, but even less coherent :D
I suggest you review Lucifer's Women in its original form. Just an idea, Robin. Hey, thanks for the intro review to Dr. Dracula.
Have you thought about putting out audiobooks for your books? I think we all would appreciate hearing you read it, to be honest. I am purchasing your book(s) regardless if you do. I just think it would be a neat bonus.
Any Al Adamson review is worth watching, especially if it is done on this channel. Hope all is well. Super happy to see you guys grow through the years
I have but it's expensive to do properly and I'm not convinced it would pay for itself.
@@robinbailes5236Would a review of old radio shows be cheaper?
It probably gets a bad rap, but THE REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD has some good moments.
So does THE REINCARNATE.
I'm not sure if it's what you mean by a "reincarnation movie", but another childhood favourite of mine was "The Wraith" which was a Charlie Sheen movie from 1986. I'll leave you look into that one yourself if your interested.
Yeah, that one wasted an interesting premise.
@@julietfischer5056 I was about 10 when I saw it, so hadn't seen anything quite like it before and really enjoyed it at the time.
Loved that cheesy movie so much. Not exactly reincarnation as coming back in another form. More like the Crow than like straight reincarnation
@@melanieszelong4664 The was another movie I liked from the same year called "The Vindicator". More a resurrection than reincarnation movie, but still worth checking out if you don't know it. It had some similar ideas to Robocop but came out about a year before it.
I'm guessing the soft core explains the feather boa in the poster. _"I'm just a sweet Travesty from Tranquil Transylvania."_
The closest I get to reincarnation is the Wes Craven tv film, "Chiller" starring Beatrice Straight and Michael Beck. A woman's son is reanimated from cryofreeze.
In honesty, this is the poster from Lucifer's women - the poster for Doctor Dracula is such garbage I could not make it look the tiniest bit interesting. ruclips.net/video/DBIRF3-JImc/видео.html
I think that one with the hero called WIllie had a more coherent plot than this. Still, as long as John Carradine got paid, then all was right with the world. I would say Wainwright looks like he was possessed by Al Pacino. A restrained version of the latter, that is.
Is that the guy who played Kramer on The Jerry Sienfeld Show?😮😅🎉
What a fantastic title for a film, "Doctor Dracula"!
Reincarnation? Kenneth Branagh's "Dead Again"! Spectacular!
1974, eh? That explains it. On the plus side, Robin's got a new book out.
That edit cut
*sound of one hand clapping*
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I'm so pleased that the sinister hypnotist Svengali turns up as a character in this otherwise emetic barf bag of a movie. Because it provides me an opening to laud the noteworthy 1931 pre-Code SVENGALI, starring the legendary John Barrymore in the title role and Marian Marsh as his doomed love object Trilby. Barrymore's performance here is nothing short of mesmerizing, with him effectively portraying Svengali as a nuanced individual and not simply a stereotypical movie villain: a malevolent Rasputinian schemer certainly, but also an innately tragic figure whose villainy is rooted in a longing for love denied. If you were never to see another John Barrymore picture (perish such a thought!), you would nevertheless pronounce him an incredible actor solely on the merit of this one movie.
I must add some mention of Anton Grot's striking set design which , with its haunted ambience and distorted perspective, was clearly inspired by the German Expressionist cinema of the previous decade. Both his work and Barney McGill's atmospheric cinematography were acknowledged by Oscar nomination.
The character Svengali has certainly gotten around. The 1931 Warner Bros. release was actually preceded by four versions of the same story, including a 1927 German picture starring Paul Wegener as Svengali. There was a subsequent 1954 British MGM remake with BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE's Donald Wolfitt in the lead part. There's moreover a 1983 made-for-TV SVENGALI that paired Peter O'Toole with Jodie Foster. But as I have yet to see any of the aforementioned, you'll blessedly be spared--at least for the time--any further expositions of my pedantically stuff-shirted commentary.
John Carradine. The uncrown king of schlock horror films. Two of my all time favourite, bad movies starring Mr. Carradine were Billy The Kid Vs Dracula. Carradine plays the evil Count who flies and walks around in broad daylight. Satan's Cheerleaders. A devil movie with a disco soundtrack for its opening theme.
John Carradine appears to be the patron saint of Dark Corners, and Larry Hankin appears to be dollar store Frank Zappa here.
Happy Halloween Everyone!
Repeatedly showing scenes of a confused John Carradine makes good sense. The audience can relate to him.
My second favorite Dracula knock off, only surpassed by Colonel Dracula Joins the Navy.
Did Stifflers Mom get her acting inspiration from Regina Carol?
Doctor Dracula? I think I'd rather watch the fictitious independent film from the TV series Scrubs, titled "Dr. Acula".
7:30 Former movie star Don "Red" Barry on the right
I love al Adamson movies !!!! I wish you'd do a special about his Strange death !!!! It was almost like something out of one of his own movies !!!? 😮
Should’ve called it Dr. Acula.
Well....he does kinda look like Svengoolie. : )
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Is Stephanie played by Susan McIver (Susie Ewing)? She looks and acts like her.
As far as reincarnation movies go, the only ones I can think of that were fairly well done are *Audrey Rose* and *The Reincarnation of Peter Proud.*
That’s a real thing? I thought Dr Acula was a Scrubs joke. :)
Paul Thomas was also Peter in the film version of Jesus Christ Superstar which I suppose is another reincarnation movie....
I learned a long long time ago to never ask a woman for her soul on the first date. wait til at least the 3rd to do it.
@Robin - any plans for audiobooks?
Did you ever watch Blood & Flesh, the documentary about Al Adamson? Not to be confused with Flesh & Blood, the documentary about Hammer.
I believe you miss spelled the doctor's name. His name is Acula. :-D
I wish that film should have called it as DR. Acula.
So, are you saying this movie's old and new threads were woven into a hideous plaid?
I always preferred Dr. Acula myself
Why killing Dracula with a stake when you have plastic explosives?
Carradine's death scene did it's job. It made me cry albeit of laughter but still.
My name is Sven, Sven Gali from Sweden.
It was like watching DRACULA VS FRANKENSTEIN , expect not as good. A PPI production ...
Seven days!
The movie might not make sense but that was one heck of an explosive ending
Robin where did you source the great tee? It's not one of yours
This one we picked up at HMV in the UK. Others come from Last Exit Nowhere.
i'm not sure if i'm proud or disappointed that they didn't use Dr. Acula, and play the reveal straight.
Favorite reincarnation movies? There's actually do m.j e good potential in Roger Cirman's THE HNDEAD. I also like the first two MUMMY movies with Fraser. And while zi can't remember the name, there was a movie with Steve Martin where a women's spirit partially possessed him, and that's kind of like reincarnation, right?
He looks more like Rasputin!
Proto Goth Chick alert at 3:15.
Doctor Akula
Wow I am viewer#10, not sure if that's a good thing with this movie...
Dr. Acula?
This is absolutely the WORST Al Adamson I 've ever seen, and that's saying something. Adamson 's films, while certainly cinematic trainwrecks, usually aren't boring; DOCTOR DRACULA is boring to the point of offense. This wound up on the "free" table at the Laundromat the day after it arrived from Amazon, a record.
Jerry Warren 's INCREDIBLE PETRIFIED WORLD was more interesting .
For all you SCRUBS fans, this DR. DRACULA... not DR. ACULA.
Damn, an odd one.
Dead Again, best reincarnation movie
Dead Again is a fun reincarnation movie.
Dracula MD
It a old joke
Did you ever see the old Mighty Mouse cartoon, "Svengali's Cat"? (Given what the cat did to the cops, I find his basic plan much too limited.) ruclips.net/video/1OMBnEHA2zI/видео.html
Dr. Dracula looks terrible but I'd be genuinely interested in seeing Lucifer's Women
I wonder why. :)
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This movie reminds me of "The Terror" with Boris Karloff. An incoherent mess loosely tied together by the filmmakers, who were hoping to turn some random Karloff footage created without a script into a workable movie. This kind of thing almost never works well.