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Truly Dreadful Film

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

A vampire, Caleb Croft (Michael Pataki), rises from the grave, only to find a young couple making out in the graveyard. He kills the boyfriend and rapes the girlfriend, who becomes pregnant. When the baby is born, it eschews milk for blood. (Like father, like son.) The boy, James, grows up into William Smith, who hates what he is and blames it on his father. James is determined to find Croft and kill him.The first 35 of the film's 90 minutes are prologue. First, the murder and rape are investigated by an oddly credulous police detective. Since the boyfriend's body was drained of blood, he reasons, the killer must be a vampire. Well, sure! What other possible explanation could there be? After Croft murders the detective, the focus switches to Leslie, the rape victim—first her pregnancy, then the raising of her vampire child. Suddenly, it's 30 years later, Leslie has died of old age, and we finally to get to the real story.Despite the large number of vampires murders, there's very little by way of violence. Instead, the film opts for slow-moving scenes of contrived dialogue delivered by a cast so bad, they must have paid to be in the film. The sole exception is Michael Pataki, who makes a fairly imposing vampire. The opening scene, in which Croft opens his coffin and leaves the grave, is genuinely creepy. If only the remaining 85 minutes were even half as watchable.But no. What we have here is typical grindhouse fare: a lame script, horrendous acting, cut-rate sets, ludicrous props, humdrum camera work, a grating (though occasionally effective) score, machete- styled editing, riotously bad sound effects, and one of the most predictable "surprise" endings I've ever seen.Item: At a library, Croft tells a woman she has lovely hair. She replies that she was once a photographer's model. Neither character moves their lips during this exchange.Item: During his showdown with Croft, James is pushed into a fireplace and his back set ablaze. He puts the flames out with a classic stop-drop-and-roll move, then continues to fight as if he's not now covered with third-degree burns. Also, his shirt sustains no fire damage.Item: James defeats Croft in the regular way—by jamming a wooden stake into the vampire's, uh, stomach. It's damned sure not his heart, unless Croft is a Vulcan.Item: At the film's end, James morphs into a vampire. To call William Smith's acting in this scene "histrionic" is a gross understatement. And going by their size, his fangs must have been stolen from a dinosaur museum.I give it three stars out of 10 for Michael Pataki. The film has nothing else going for it.

Grave of the Vampire (1972) *** (out of 4)A young couple leave a party and head to a cemetery where they begin to make out. At the same time Caleb Croft (Michael Pataki) is coming out of his grave. Caleb attacks the couple, killing the man and raping the woman. The woman ends up pregnant and delivers a young child who, you guessed it, needs blood and not milk. Thirty- years later the mom dies but the son, James Eastman (William Smith), goes out looking for his father.John Hayes' GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE is without question one of the strangest vampire films that you're going to see. The vampire genre delivered countless movies throughout the 1970s and there were some very strange ones ranging from hardcore films like Dracula SUCKS to low-budget weirdos like VAMPIRE HOOKERS. This one here takes its subject very seriously and we've given a bizarre family drama dealing with vampires!Whereas a low-budget often harms films, it actually helps this one because there's no lavish scenes that couldn't be pulled off and instead the director works well with the low-budget and manages to build up an atmosphere that is terrific. The atmosphere of the film is quite wonderful and it's certainly the best thing about the picture. The opening scenes inside the cemetery have fog machines in overdrive and you really do get an eerie sense with the graveyard setting. The second half of the film is quite different but you've still got that atmosphere that leaves you feeling it as the picture moves along.I also thought the story, from David Chase, offers up a lot of twists and turns as far as the vampire myth goes. The film's story isn't a familiar one and I thought the screenplay did a very good job at offer up new ideas as well as a different way to work with the vampires. The performances are another plus and especially with Pataki who is wonderful in the lead role. I thought he managed to be quite menacing as the vampire and he certainly adds to the entertainment. Supporting players were all good as well.GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE certainly isn't going to be for everyone but fans of the genre will find enough interesting things here to make this worth sitting through, despite Leonard Maltin's BOMB rating.

Bad quality of the reel, intact. Bad score editing, yes it hurt my ears. A lot of hiss, yesssssssssssssssss. Hue problems, OMG! No blood or nudity, not a drip or a tit. Cheap score, indeed very simple but effective. Carnival make-up, o did it contain make-up? Simple effects, just some dental issues. Scary vampire, hmmmm, he walks in the sun so no. Wooden acting, yes and at the end over-the-top acting. And what a funny ending just before the credits. But somehow the script was okay and what the vampire had to tell was okay, surely a good example of drive-in trash, not perfect for todays standards but surely for the grindhouse/drive-in freaks.

"A vampire rises from his grave and, after coming across a young couple, kills the man and rapes the woman. The woman eventually gives birth to a part-human, part-vampire child that feeds upon her blood that she provides to him. Years later, the now adult human-vampire hybrid son sets out to track down his vampire father, seeking revenge for the curse he bestowed upon him," according to the DVD sleeve's synopsis.Some good ideas, undoubtedly from screenplay writer David Chase's vampire book "The Still Life" - but, this "Grave of the Vampire" is unfortunately dug very poorly. And, even what's good herein could be improved upon; for example, by having the opening couple bear clear responsibility for disturbing the vampire's tomb. Still, the basic story is ripe for reproduction; it might even make an interesting TV series. Vampires are in vogue.The film gets off to a good start with Michael Pataki (as Caleb Croft) sinking his teeth into the role; and, doesn't it does make sense for the vampire to feel aroused after consuming a "Bloody Mary"? Another memorable sequence has victim Kitty Vallacher (as Leslie Hollander) learning how to feed her baby vampire, who grows up to be William Smith (as James Eastman). The characters obviously had so much more potential.**** Grave of the Vampire (1/74) John Hayes ~ Michael Pataki, William Smith, Kitty Vallacher