Very well executed

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Fantastic!

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Let's see...a mad female science teacher spouting her twisted ideas in a secluded girls' boarding school? She "seduces" her innocent young students with her pseudo-scientific rants, waves her amulet and turns them into a blood-sucking vampires. They are doing her bidding, murdering fellow students and following her directions with total devotion? You are practically beaten over the head with the subtext in this movie and if you don't see it, you must be blind. It is great fun (if you can sit through the transformation scenes). A B-movie? For sure? But with the subtext, it was treading on interesting ground for 1957. It is a classic and if you take the subtext into consideration it is one of the best and most entertaining of the 50's B horror genre.

For the life of me I can't figure out why the title of this movie wasn't "I was a Teenage Dracula". It was made by the same studio, American International Pictures, that created the wonderful teen 50's horror movies "I was a Teenage Werewolf" and "I was a Teenage Frankenstein". Sandra Harrison plays Nancy Perkins, a young woman who is dumped off at a boarding school for girls by her inattentive father who has remarried a young blonde gold digger just six weeks after his first wife's death. Needless to say, Nancy is not happy about this situation at all and she has a lot of anger about having to leave her previous school and her boyfriend, Glen.Louise Lewis portrays the controlling science teacher who under hypnosis turns the vulnerable Nancy into a vampire for reasons that I couldn't understand, some bizarre theory about proving how the evil in the human race is stronger than the atom bomb...I didn't get it, but the movie is still a lot of fun. A lot of the comments here seem to hint at a lesbian relationship between the crazy science teacher and some of her students, but I didn't see that at all. This movie is typical of it's time in the fact that it has to have a really corny "rock and roll" number and this one, "Puppy Love" has to be heard to be believed. It has to be a joke, I don't think anybody can listen to it without laughing, it's that bad. I love all of American International Pictures 1950's horror movies, but I can honestly say that this one is my favorite, even though it is not as well known. If you haven't seen this one, check it out. There is creepy vampire make up, two killings in a spooky old cemetery and the corny "Puppy Love" song and dance number. You'll enjoy it!!!

Blood of Dracula (1957) ** 1/2 (out of 4) A troubled teen (Sandra Harrison) goes to a boarding school where a teacher starts doing experiments on her. The teacher puts Nancy under hypnosis and soon murders begin to occur. Too bad this film wasn't called I Was a Teenage Vampire to fit in with the others but other than that this movie isn't too bad. This film tries to fill the need of teen juvenile films as well as the horror genre and in that respect the film manages to be entertaining. The look of the vampire is quite good and there's some funny dialogue throughout the movie. The film's pacing is a tad bit all over the place and this here keeps it from being better. The movie certainly doesn't try to be anything special but it does manage to be an effective drive-in flick.

Nancy (Sandra Harrison) is an angry young girl who's sent, against her will, to a private boarding school. There she falls under the eye of the science teacher (Louise Lewis) who needs her anger to show how anger can control the world, not weapons. (No, I don't understand it either) She hypnotizes Nancy and, somehow, can turn her into a vampire who attacks and kills...As you can see this is pretty silly stuff. The plot makes no sense with plot holes left and right. The acting is OK (Lewis come off best) and, like other AIP pictures, the film comes to a screeching halt when some guy named Tab (Jerry Blaine) sings some dumb song called "Puppy Love". The "dancing" in this one has to be seen to be believed. The only somewhat interesting thing in this is an(implied) lesbian link between Harrison and Lewis.This gets a 2 only because of the makeup job done on Harrison when she becomes a vampire. Pointed ears and eyes, hysterically long fangs and claws and a white streak running through her hair! Supposedly Harrison begged producer Herman Cohen for this role--he said, after she got it, she acted like Joan Crawford! Also, many years later, this was shown at the NY Museum of Modern Art--Harrison actually called them and asked them to please not show it. That should tell you something. B-movie fans and kids might like this but others beware!