Blood, Vampires...Werewolves...Man-Eating Plants...etc.

Oh, this is too good. Dracula's daughter marries the wolfman's son, and together they grow man-eating plants. Get this...they do not know Baron von Frankenstein and the Baroness are on the way. In one of the best drive-in films about uncontrolled lust for blood, 1973's "Blood" is a gratuitous orgy (redundant?) for your pleasure.

Okay, Lawrence Orlovsky (Allan Berendt) who is actually the wolfman's son, and his wife Regina (Hope Stansbury), yep...Dracula's daughter... arrive at a rented house in the U.S. Their weird servants accompany them and include the beautiful Carrie (Patricia Gaul) and Orlando (Michaedl Fischetti). They help Lawrence with his experiments. The experiments? Yep...a serum is needed to keep Regina from becoming an out of control vampire...too late, if you ask me. In the basement are plants that produce the serum and they need blood to grow...and as they grow they need more blood. Poetry! Where to get blood? Their other servant the hideous Carlotta (Pichulina Hempe) is almost out. This is America and nubile babes practically throw themselves at our mad-scientist while screaming, "Take my blood and ravage me!" You hear this on college campuses a lot.

Okay, Lawrence kills...how? Yep, he turns into a frisky werewolf. Then a beautiful babe appears, Prudence (Pamela Adams) and is instantly captivated by Lawrence. See, Regina is way past her shelf life as far as Lawrence's affections go. Bloodsuckers do lose their novelty after awhile. Uh oh...Regina is a jealous sort and she now sets her sights...okay, fangs...on the very pretty and vulnerable Prudence.  Anyone visiting, or for that matter coming within 100 yards of the Orlovsky house, turns into Regina's snacks.  Now as the man-eaters grow in the basement and feed on Lawrence's leasing agent, Regina gets more bold...Lawrence gets more bold...the weird servants get more bold...and the Frankensteins  near. As the nubile and greedy get their throats ripped out, our monsters may be getting too aggressive to continue going unnoticed.

Will Lawrence's interest in developing a serum for Regina wane as the pretty Prudence enters his life? What happens if a vampire feeds on a werewolf? Is this film a mere metaphor of the continued soiling of young American women by an increasingly perverted European culture? For some neat drive in fun, enjoy Andy Milligan's "Blood."