ridiculous rating

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Well what to say really. I would start by saying I do watch a lot of black and white movies and even some slow ones I do enjoy. Of course horror movies from this time is rarely scary, so do not expect them to be.This movie I found moving very slow. I did not feel the story went anywhere. In my opinion there should have been cut half an hour of the running time at least. To be honest it is a miracle I did finish this one, but the last 20 minutes were entertaining. The movie in general do treat the vampire myth a bit differently than normal.I would only recommend this movie to vampire completionists.

LOL the English language dub track for the INVASION OF THE VAMPIRES bootleg I managed to find at a used record store is a marvel in itself. Some sort of surrealist masterpiece. Sounds like it was recorded in the lobby of a church over coffee by an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Then there's the huge, and I mean HUGE fake flapping bat -- makes the fake bat from Jess Franco's "Count Dracula" look like a masterpiece of animatronic puppeteering by comparison.Then there are the names: Count Frankenhausen and Broomhilda are the best (yes, I know it's Brunhilde but I'm having fun here), and all those wild electronic sound effects cues heard in like 3 other of these MexiVamp potboilers. Can't get enough of them actually ... I think this one comes after BLOODY VAMPIRE and WORLD OF THE VAMPIRES, which is a trip with that funky haunted bone organ by H.R. Giger.Seriously though, these Mexican vampire movies are a treat for fans of Gothic atmospheric horror, filmed ingeniously by non-Hollywood types with a sense of style that is unique. There's about seven movies from this era that aren't too difficult to find:The Vampire (1957) The Vampire's Coffin (1958) World of the Vampires (1961) Santo Vs. the Vampire Women (1962) The Bloody Vampire (1962) Invasion of the Vampires (1963) Bring Me The Vampire (1963) Empire of Dracula (1966) This one being perhaps the most difficult to score, though all are floating around on various public domain DVDs and underground DVD-R releases of varying quality. Mine was pretty poor but you know, it's sort of fitting. Watching this creaky old movie on a flickering B&W screen at 3:20 in the morning on a Saturday is kind of what material like this was made for. Though a hearty archival restorative effort to resurrect these movies is long overdue. They are all marvelous!6/10

K. Gordon Murray again takes a Mexican horror film and dubs it for American consumption. This movie does have its moments of eeriness and I enjoyed the musical score more than the story. A vampire in his bat form is speared against a wall during a short brawl with the doctor(Rafael del Rio) studying the deaths in a Mexican village that occur during the full moon. The major scene is with Count Frankenhausen(Carlos Agosti)in his winged form speared to the wall as his victims rise like zombies with stakes in their chests destined to terrorize the village in mass. The black & white photography and the evil sounding musical background does present a scary atmosphere. Plus the windy rain storms add to the overall feel of horror that accompanies THE INVASION OF THE VAMPIRES.

Like most of the Mexican horror films imported to the U.S. by K. Gordon Murray, much of this film is rendered unintentionally funny by some really awkward dubbed dialog. However, the film is worth checking out because of one splendid sequence which survived the dubbing process with its eeriness intact: When head vampire Count Frankenhausen is fatally speared during a brawl with the film's hero, Frankenhausen's numerous victims (despite each having already been staked through the heart) rise from their coffins in a quite unsettling scene, and march on the town. The reason this sequence still works so well is that it's mostly silent, with no mood-shattering dubbed dialog. Even in its Americanized version, this film still creates a powerful atmosphere of hovering evil, and the black & white photography is excellent.