Grave Of The Vampire

It must be very hard to make a great vampire movie, because there are so many bad vampire movies out there that, if we stacked them one on top of the other, they would probably reach the moon! And speaking of bad vampire movies, let's take a look at the 1974 blood-sucking classing, Grave Of The Vampire!



This movie starts with an interesting premise, what if a mortal woman had a vampire child, a being that was half human, half vampire...and that's where the interesting part of this movie ends! Here's the story: When vampire Caleb Croft comes out of the grave, he's lucky that two teenager lovers are nearby. He attacks and drains the man of blood and rapes the woman in an open grave, leaving her alive and pregnant. The woman gives birth to the child, who doesn't want mother's milk, he wants blood, and in a very weird scene, the woman cuts her breast and feeds the baby 'breast blood'! Flash forward to years later, when the boy is grown and he wants revenge on his father for making him the monster that he is!

This is a mess of a movie, with the vampire not biting his victims but killing them in other ways and then drinking their blood (for example, he stabs one woman to death with a trowel, ala Night Of The Living Dead), and I've seen a lot of vampire movies, but this may be the first featuring a vampire rapist!!! It's all very strange, but not very interesting or scary.

I'm giving Grave Of The Vampire one lonely unlit cigar because the premise is good, if the execution lacked...greatly!! So, until next time, when I'll reveal that I too am looking for revenge on my father for making me the monster that I am...wait, I don't mean monster, I mean asshole! Until then, remember that the best movies are bad movies.