Silent Night, Bloody Night

Silent Night Bloody Night is a slow paced horror flick from 1974 that has some good things to offer the viewer. While the pacing is slow, the visuals and backgrounds are used in a very creative way by the director. Everything in the film feels like an old school Gothic classic.
There are not many scenes where there is a lot of blood and gore. However, there is one scene when the lawyer and his girlfriend are murdered with an ax while in bed together. The scene shows plenty of blood and the camera shots chosen along with some fast paced editing and scary music, really make the double murder look real. The person doing the murdering has taken up residence in the home. nobody knows why he is there or what he wants to do with the home. We just know that the people that visit and stay at the house, do not make it out alive.

The movie has some nice plot twist, however there are too many scenes where the outcomes are predictable. A better explanation could have been given for who the murderer was. Oh we find out who it is, but how did survive the fire and why did he murder all of these people?

Still, Silent Night, Bloody Night is a fun film that is well directed. The actors do a very good job of carry the story and making the film believable.

Blood of Dracula's Castle

A wonderfully horrible movie. "The Blood of Dracula's Castle" has all of the elements of a classic vampire film combined with the wit and unintentional camp of the "Addams Family"

Much like "Fangs of The Living Dead, this movie starts off with a couple that has recieved a note that they have inherited a castle. What they do not realize is the people that currently live there are vampires and feed off of the blood of virgins. But instead of sinking their teeth into their victims, they send their butler to stick a needle in the helpess woman's arm while she is chained up in the castle basement. After he draws the blood, he empties the syrenge into a gooblet and down the hatch of the vampires.

The vampires have a relative who escapes from prison but after a long introduction to the viewer and a fine job of working him into the story, he became the only real belevable person in the whole film. Sorry, the story is fun, but bad acting just kills it.

Back to the couple that inherited that castle. After sleeping several nights in the castle, and hearing screams each night, the couple decide to find out where the screams are coming from. It took them a few days!?!

The discover several women held against their will, chained up against the wall. They were being used to provide the vampires blood when needed. Not far from the women are the two coffins that house our vampires. The vampires wake up, one of the girls is set on fire at the stake, and the movie finishes with both vampires melting when the sun came up. Why did they melt you ask? Because they were being held at gunpoint by the couple. Yes....gunpoint. Theu are vampires!!! They should not be afriad of guns. DUH!

The print used by Mill Creek Entertainment to put this classic on DVD is horrible. The first few minutes of each reel has green streaks which are very hard to watch. They go away after a while. Otherwise, check out this dandy little diddy.