Mario Salieri's Dracula (1994) User Reviews

Beautiful actresses in the 18th century underwear.

[Wladimir von Pivo · 9 August 2002]

One of the best porn movies I've ever seen. It has 18th century dresses (actresses look great in underwear!), good interiors, horse carriages, even a castle. All actresses are very pretty (even those that have only small parts). And there is Ron Jeremy (really good as a villain). What more more can one want from a porn.

PS: Don't be surprised in the beginning, it takes over 10 minutes before the first f..k.

Not quite it.

[Boba_Fett1138 · 4/10 · 13 February 2012]

A serious missed opportunity. The will and the money seemed to be there but this movie just never quite works out as a good or even all that enjoyable porn version of the Bram Stoker Dracula story.

I call it a porn version of the Dracula story but only because the movie has the title "Dracula" really. It doesn't at all follow the Bram Stoker story and Dracula himself is even hardly in this movie at all. As a matter of fact, this movie has very little to do with vampires or horror. It still does follow a story, I at least I assume it does. It really isn't anything all that involving or amusing to follow.

Of course these sort of movies are all about it sex scenes though. Problem is that isn't being very creative with any of them and the movie is constantly repeating itself and also in a real messy way. I hate it when all of the sex scenes aren't incorporated into the story very well. They just happen. Sometimes they happen after every minute, while at others you have to wait for at least 5. There is no real pleasant flow to the movie and it all feels very messy, as if it good shot without a real script even.

It's all so weird, since definitely some time and effort got obviously put into this movie. It's the sort of movie that has some convincing costumes and sets in it but it all makes you wonder why, since it doesn't ever does anything original or creative with it at all.

Oh well, at least Ron Jeremy is still in it. I keep saying this but this guy is actually quite amusing and has a great natural talent for comedy. His role is also quite big. I would even say he plays the lead male role in this, even though he is not first billed.

Obviously really not the best or most effective blend of porn and classic horror that I have ever seen.

4/10

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Under-lit

[SMK-4 · 3/10 · 21 July 2000]

This is one of these modern-day costume pornos. Clearly, more money has been thrown at it than usual, in terms of cast and sets. As it is a typical Salieri picture, the lighting bill can not have been very high - most scenes are constantly under-lit. This is supposed to make it look arty and lift it a tad up-market, but it is little more than a gimmick, a personal trademark of the director.

As the market seems to demand, the sex is very much wall-to-wall: more dicks than fangs, more sperm than blood.

Misguided, absurdly inept porno "mini-epic"

[lor_ · 16 June 2011]

Italian pornographer Mario Salieri has made several entertaining, quality video features, such as C.K.P. and ARABIKA. But his over-reaching Dracula, "loosely based on the Bram Stoker book" (!) is a case study in how NOT to shoot porn.

I suspended criticism (begrudgingly) during a tedious 11-minute prologue, in which Salieri harks back to the year 1495 in Romania to set his vampire tale in motion. Lovely actress Selen is Elizabeth, whose beau Vlad Dracule is valiantly fighting the Turks. She gets tortured by meanie Zoltan (Roberto Malone), and after Vlad's death she commits suicide with some green poison.

After the belated credits sequence, we're in London in 1887 to take up Stoker's story. Three beautiful (but contrasting in looks) sisters, Sandy (Selen again), Gabrielle and young Mary, venture forth to Romania to claim a castle they've inherited. Their extremely creepy cousin Sam (Jean Yves Le Castel) tags along, and something immediately seems amiss as he makes an incestuous play for cousin Mary.

SPOILERS ALERT:

She's forced to take a coach with Sam, while the other sisters take a different coach, with very unconvincing script explanation given. American import Ron Jeremy is the coachman, and he & Sam gang-rape Mary in a distasteful scene.

The other sisters arrive at an inn, and Sam (using Jeremy as his henchman) systematically tries to kill them all off, in order to gain control of the entire inheritance. Besides the sex scenes there are various teasers of gore (notably a guy having his insides torn out by a torturer), but the action is dull, dull, dull.

Predictably Selen as a reincarnation of Elizabeth meets up with Vlad (undead version) for a fiery and unsatisfactory finish.

Salieri's Dracula is to porn what Cliff Notes are to a real classic of literature. His narrative scenes are very poorly acted (Jeremy in particular hams it up and pulls faces worse than usual), and every sex scene is edited down to the bone, typically running maybe two or three minutes long.

At a different scale of explicitness, it reminded me of the despicable R-rated versions of Cinemax movies where the usual unedited soft-X humping scenes of 4 to 5 minute duration are chopped to a blink-and-you-missed-it 30 seconds of preamble before cutting away. Salieri's content is XXX to be sure, but completely botched -not even as exciting as a coming attractions trailer version.

With a lengthy cast list and an epic story to tell, this feature runs only about 50 minutes after deducting the prologue. It's a complete failure.