5.3 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 2.0 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
Count Dracula and his wife capture beautiful young women and chain them in their dungeon, to be used when they need to satisfy their thirst for blood.
Starring: John Carradine, Paula Raymond, Alexander D'Arcy, Robert Dix, Jennifer Bishop (I)Horror | 100% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.84:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
English
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 2.0 | |
Video | 2.5 | |
Audio | 3.0 | |
Extras | 2.0 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
Note: This film is available as part of
Al Adamson: The Masterpiece Collection.
Disc Four of The Masterpiece Collection aggregates three titles that have at least a tangential connection to each other. Blood of
Dracula's Castle and Dracula's Castle are basically two versions of the same film, while Horror of the Blood Monsters offers
vampires again, albeit this time interpolated from a Filipino film that Adamson decided to appropriate.
Blood of Dracula's Castle is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Severin Films with an AVC encoded 1080p trnasfer in 1.84:1. The palette is probably the best overall thing about this presentation, with some of the outdoor material popping rather well. That said, this is another pretty widely variable presentation, with some of the indoor material suffering from persistent crush, and the entire transfer hobbled by recurrent damage in the form of scratches, nicks and other annoyances. There are quite a few unstable frames and a lot of the transfer is pretty soft looking. The title sequence looks like it may have been spliced in, and exhibits some really bad (green) scratching. There are also some very badly damaged sequences, as in one starting at around 19:54, where the entire frame is just covered with long vertical, multicolored scratches.
Blood of Dracula's Castle features a DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono track that is decent sounding, though occasionally some of the music sounds a bit tinny, as in the then trendy "Ameriachi" music that underplays the photo shoot by the pool. The opening theme song actually sounds nicely full bodied, and dialogue, while boxy at times, is presented cleanly and clearly for the most part, though occasional pops intrude, and there are what sound like a couple of choppy edits. English subtitles are available via the button on your remote.
This is another low rent Adamson affair that seeks to cash in on a few recognizable names while supposedly exploiting a "vampire" genre which the film really only kind of alludes to. It's silly, but it's often surprisingly fun to watch. Technical merits on this theatrical version are definitely problematic, but both the commentary and interview are very interesting.
(Still not reliable for this title)
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