The Empire of Dracula (Spanish: El imperio de Drácula) is a 1967 Mexican horror mystery thriller film directed by Federico Curiel and starring Lucha Villa, César del Campo and Eric del Castillo.[1][2]

The Empire of Dracula
Directed byFederico Curiel
Screenplay byRamón Obón (as Ramón Obón Jr.)
Story byLuis Enrique Vergara (idea, as L.E. Vergara C.)
Based onDracula
by Bram Stoker (as Abraham Stoker)
Produced byLuis Enrique Vergara (as Luis Enrique Vergara C.)
StarringLucha Villa
César del Campo
Eric del Castillo
Víctor Alcocer
Rebeca Iturbide
CinematographyAlfredo Uribe
Edited byLuis Sobreyra
Music byGustavo César Carrión
Production
company
Fílmica Vergara
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • 26 October 1967 (1967-10-26) (Mexico)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryMexico
LanguageSpanish

It was influenced by Hammer Horror films.[3] It is one of several vampire movies made in Mexico in the 1960s, alongside Miguel Morayta's duology The Bloody Vampire (1962) and The Invasion of the Vampires (1963).[4]

Plot

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A man searches for the vampire who killed his father to prevent him from coming back to life, but to do so he must fight his army of beautiful female vampires, who lure men to their estate so they can feed on their blood.

Cast

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Reception

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In El gran libro del vampiro ("The great book of the vampire"), Alexis Puig said, "There is a lot of eroticism, especially lesbian: female vampires biting female victims;" and highlighted a scene in which the count must fight inside his own coffin with a man carrying a crucifix as a "very dramatic scene."[5]

References

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  1. ^ García Riera, Emilio (1992). Historia documental del cine mexicano (in Spanish). Vol. 13. Universidad de Guadalajara. pp. 86–87. ISBN 968-895-590-6.
  2. ^ Browning, John Edgar; Picart, Caroline Joan (Kay) (2014). Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921–2010. McFarland. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-7864-6201-8.
  3. ^ Pérez Gañán, María del Rocio (2014). Arquetipos femeninos perversos en el cine de terror: El mito y la construcción de la mujer vampiro y su (re)producción en la sociedad occidental (in Spanish). Ed. Universidad de Cantabria. pp. 22–23. ISBN 978-84-8102-717-4.
  4. ^ Melton, J. Gordon (2010). The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead. Visible Ink Press. p. 460. ISBN 978-1-57859-348-4.
  5. ^ Puig, Alexis (1997). El gran libro del vampiro (in Spanish). Imaginador. p. 66. ISBN 978-9-5076-8182-0. Hay mucho erotismo, sobre todo lésbico: mujeres vampiras mordiendo víctimas femeninas; y una escena de mucho dramatismo cuando el conde debe pelear en su propio ataúd con un hombre que porta un crucifijo. [There is a lot of eroticism, especially lesbian: female vampires biting female victims; and a very dramatic scene when the count must fight in his own coffin with a man carrying a crucifix.]
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