Kroft, a legendary vampire, returns from sleep. Kroft attacks a couple
in a graveyard, raping the woman. The child born feeds only on blood
from his mother's breast.
Grave of the Vampire is a 1972 American horror film directed by John Hayes. The film stars Michael Pataki as a brutish vampire apparently lacking in
Dracula's powers of seduction, since he finds it necessary to brutally
rape a young woman (Kitty Vallacher) in order to sire a child. The
product of this unholy mating is a half-human, half-vampire baby boy,
bottle-fed on the blood of his now-insane mother (a truly sickening
sight) until her eventual death from anemia. Later as a young man, the
son (William Smith) is able to spend short periods
in daylight, and his
bloodlust is considerably lesser than that of his father. Tormented
nevertheless by his evil condition, he curses his bloodline and defies
his vampire heritage, tracking his father down to the university where
he teaches occult sciences.
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| Yes. That is indeed a salamander on his head. |
I must say it does have an interesting premise. The vampire rapes a woman and she has ends up popping out a kid. That's where the interesting part ends and the audience is raped by shitty acting. A lot of folks seem to like this movie and I have to wonder what the fuck they had been smoking before watching it.
The film is very boring to watch. It doesn't even have that so bad it's good quality. SO much silly stuff in the movie. Like in the beginning when a body is found and a police lieutenant asks if
the sun was completely up, you know there are going to be problems. The
police do not automatically assume vampires. But, this goofball did. The worst scene in the
movie is the classroom one where people sit around and talk for about
fifteen minutes. Oh yeah and the vampire is now a professor. No blood
or nudity, not a drip or a tit.
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| Father and son--related by BLOOD! ANYONE'S BLOOD! |
The most amazing thing about this film is that David Chase wrote the screenplay. Yes that David Chase. The same one that created and wrote "The Sopanos" TV series. He must have written this in the 1st grade.
If you're a huge vampire fan maybe you might dig this. Otherwise leave this shit on the shelf.
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| I'll rip the door off a car to get some pussy. |
Trivia:
Top-billed William Smith only appears after 35 minutes of screening.
This film was filmed in 11 days with a budget of $50,000.
Caleb Croft also appears in Kim Newman's "Anno Dracula"-novels
Michael Pataki also narrated a theatrical trailer for this film.
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| Wow, Professor, you make a groovy medium! |
James Eastman:
[voiceover]
My mother found it difficult to tell me that I wasn't like other
children; I could never share a life with whole human beings. I slowly
learned that the thing that raped my mother and fathered me was no
living feeling man, but a malignant force of cancer that refused to be
destroyed. It wasn't only her blood my mother gave to keep me alive, her
youth and her own life was sucked up into the syringe that fed me.
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| No tricks. No Goober Dust. |
