Dracula (1999), Filmografia vampirica, Vampiria



VampireSex: il soft e l'hard

Scheda: Nazione: India - Produzione: Bhooshan Films - Soggetto: Rajesh Kundan - Sceneggiatura: Rajesh Kundan - Fotografia: R.M. Shah - Musiche: Sawan Kumar - Formato: Color - Durata: 92'.

Cast: Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Kiran Kumar, Rami Reddy, Mohan Joshi, Anil Nagrath, Raj Premi, Jyoti Rana, Priya Rao, Deepak Shirke, Vinod Tripathi.

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - onlinewatchmovies.co - gomolo.com - latestmovieslive.net - fridaycinemas.com - taliesinttlg.blogspot.it: «Whilst there are obvious cultural differences between films from Hollywood and films from Bollywood, the songs and dancing being the obvious ones, the Bollywood vampire movies I have looked at here, thus far, have been interesting and entertaining. With that in mind, prepare to be disappointed by Dracula, which proves that poor filmmaking knows no borders. First of all I have to warn that, despite the title, this is not a remake of Bram Stoker’s novel. Rather the word Dracula is used as a species name – for want of a better description – interchangeable with the word vampire. This is not without precedent, indeed some Japanese films do the same. Now, normally, this is where I would offer a description of the plot. Unfortunately there is very little plot available. We begin with a snake charmer who suggests that he will play his snake flute and draw out the snake who will give him the jewel (that being the snake jewel, which is the central point of the film). He plays but a wind builds and a voice laughs. This scares the charmer who is then arrested as the police are looking for escaped prisoners. These prisoners number six in all and include, in their number, Abdullah (Kiran Kumar), a snake charmer and guru of the other snake charmer. Later we see how Abdullah charmed a snake that turned into a woman – who then sang and danced around for a bit before giving him a jewel (which was subsequently lost). Being a group of criminals they don’t trust each other. ... The filming is atrocious, the quality flipping through blurred video footage to nearly clear. The framing cuts people out of shot. I have mentioned the lack of sets – though I should say that in a near Ed Wood moment we saw grave markers sway in the wake of the wind machine used, though to be fair this graveyard used plywood markers only. All in all this isn’t even B movie filmmaking. The film itself is only available on vcd in Hindi. As far as I can tell there isn’t a dvd version flying around or a multi-lingual version, but there are English fan-subs available on the net».

b-flicks.blogspot.it: «Esta película dirigida por Bhooshan Lal, viene a ser la segunda película producida en la India que comentaremos en este blog, después de Pyasa Shaitan. En esta oportunidad sí dispuse de subtítulos para poder disfrutarla a plenitud, aunque el argumento es tan disparatado que pienso que la reseña no se hubiera visto demasiado afectada de haberla visto solamente con el audio en hindi. La historia comienza en un cementerio con un tipejo muy sospechoso que con mucho esmero intenta encantar una serpiente. Se lo llevan detenido pero inmediatamente lo dejan en libertad por no tener ningún cargo del cual acusarlo. De forma bastante accidentada somos informados de que ese extraño interés por el cementerio y todo el asunto con los encantadores de serpientes está relacionado con la presencia de una joya muy rara hecha de un material llamado nagmani, mucho más valioso que el diamante según dice uno de los personajes. Ese simpático elemento trabajaba antes con otro encantador de serpientes, quien tuvo la mala idea de ofrecerle sus servicios a cuatro facinerosos que se encontraban tras la pista de la serpiente y su joya. Luego de eso no volvió a saber de su compañero y sospecha que se deshicieron de él para no tener que pagarle su parte. ... De más está decirles que como buena película de Bollywood hay canciones y bailes. Atentos a la música que suena en los instantes previos a cada muerte ejecutada por Drácula».