A gem among horror fans and stands out from run-of-the-mill porn! A very good storyline, excellent sets and costumes plus a surprise comedic ending. Every kink imaginable is in this flick. Jamie brings a little class into the genre with his usual dark and quiet demure.
7 Reviews
Rather interesting pornographic Dracula.
HumanoidOfFlesh10 November 2005
"Dracula Exotica" features porn icon Jamie Gillis as a love sick Dracula who seeks out the reincarnation of his dead wife.After raping Surka(and her therefore resulting suicide),the Count leaves for the US,where he is believed to be a spy,and where he finds a reincarnation of his lost love.One fantastic scene of outrageous perversion involves one of Dracula's victims(the ever ready Vanessa Del Rio)rising from the slab after having been molested by morgue attendant Herschel Savage."Dracula Exotica" is okay porno film with a sprinkle of horror.Apart from some hot porno sequences it has a rather interesting story to tell.Admittedly the horror elements are weak,but the acting is decent and Jamie Gillis is likable as Dracula.Overall,if you like porn films with actual script give "Dracula Exotica" a look.7 out of 10.
Pornographic Dracula
The_Void16 June 2009
It's a Dracula story, and it's directed by Shaun Costello; so naturally what we have here is a pornographic version of Dracula. The film is praised by some for having a script...but really it's just business as usual. Most of the movie is porn, and it's all just connected by a loose Dracula story. The porn scenes don't even fit in with the story for the most part. The plot is an altered version of the classic Dracula tale. The film begins by introducing us to the Count; and the woman he loves, a simple maid that he cannot marry because of the class-divide. Frustrated, he drags her from her bed and rapes her, but this leads to her suicide, which leaves Dracula cursed to walk the Earth as the undead for the rest of eternity. He then spends eternity having sex with various women. I can't say that the film is really very entertaining; the story doesn't exactly flow very well and the horror elements are lacklustre at best. But of course I went into this expecting porn and that's what I got. The porn scenes are decent enough; as mentioned they don't particularly fit in with the rest of the film, but that's pretty common when it comes to hardcore porn. Overall, this might be of some interest to porn/Costello fans...but Dracula fans would be better off looking elsewhere.
Yes, It's Actually a Good Movie
Michael_Elliott20 April 2014
Dracula Exotica (1980)
*** (out of 4)
Count Dracula (Jamie Gillis) forces himself on a woman (Samantha Fox) who in return kills herself. Flash-forward to the current times and Dracula is now in America where he sees a woman (also played by Fox) who reminds him of his long-lost love so he goes after her. Dracula EXOTICA wasn't the first porn version to feature the classic monster but it's certainly a good film and I think a strong argument could be made that it's one of the better Dracula movies from this period. It's certainly much better than the previous year's Frank Langella version. There's a lot of good things going with this film and a lot of credit has to go to director Shaun Costello who manages to keep the film moving at an extremely good pace and best of all is how he's able to mix the hardcore sex with the regular story. I was shocked to see how much plot was actually here and I was even more shocked to see how well-made this film was. It actually looks extremely good and this is especially true in regards to the costumes and sets. Another major plus is that the performances are actually good with Gillis doing an extremely nice job in the role of Dracula. I will admit that I'm not sure what he's going for with the accent but I'm not going to fault him or the film too much for this. Fox is good in her supporting roles and we get a very energetic Vanessa del Rio and a young Ron Jeremy. The film mixes the sex and horror elements quite nicely but the director takes it a step further with some comedy that works at times. The film even crosses the line of del Rio's dead body being molested and raped inside the mortuary. If you think that's weird it gets even worse during one scene where a father molests his daughter (in a dress, with a sucker and piggy tales), which is just rather disturbing to say the least. At nearly 100-minutes the film does run a bit too long but there's no question that the film has a lot going for it.
*** (out of 4)
Count Dracula (Jamie Gillis) forces himself on a woman (Samantha Fox) who in return kills herself. Flash-forward to the current times and Dracula is now in America where he sees a woman (also played by Fox) who reminds him of his long-lost love so he goes after her. Dracula EXOTICA wasn't the first porn version to feature the classic monster but it's certainly a good film and I think a strong argument could be made that it's one of the better Dracula movies from this period. It's certainly much better than the previous year's Frank Langella version. There's a lot of good things going with this film and a lot of credit has to go to director Shaun Costello who manages to keep the film moving at an extremely good pace and best of all is how he's able to mix the hardcore sex with the regular story. I was shocked to see how much plot was actually here and I was even more shocked to see how well-made this film was. It actually looks extremely good and this is especially true in regards to the costumes and sets. Another major plus is that the performances are actually good with Gillis doing an extremely nice job in the role of Dracula. I will admit that I'm not sure what he's going for with the accent but I'm not going to fault him or the film too much for this. Fox is good in her supporting roles and we get a very energetic Vanessa del Rio and a young Ron Jeremy. The film mixes the sex and horror elements quite nicely but the director takes it a step further with some comedy that works at times. The film even crosses the line of del Rio's dead body being molested and raped inside the mortuary. If you think that's weird it gets even worse during one scene where a father molests his daughter (in a dress, with a sucker and piggy tales), which is just rather disturbing to say the least. At nearly 100-minutes the film does run a bit too long but there's no question that the film has a lot going for it.
This erotic Dracula, doesn't really fly
videorama-759-8593915 February 2014
Certainly DE is something different. A horror movie with a twist of porn, and Gillis who's weak portrayal of our fiendish villain is about convincing as mummy doing the role. But this is expected as when watching adult stars try to be cool or do parody's of other films, stars. It's fun watching them attempt this. By any feat, DE isn't a masterpiece, but shows initiative in it's story. Of course, the horror whatever doesn't hide the fact it's just another sex romp from our adult stars, and like their other movies, there's humour here too, only less of it. The opening in the castle where an orgy is taking place, I was somewhat visually appreciative, but the story becomes sometimes hard to follow, and spends too much time in the mire with sex scenes, but really this is what was intended. But I like movies like this that pretend to be different, like the mafia drama Bound, which it's twist was lesbianism. The problem with DE, was it's story got lost here and there, or was disjointed. The oral scene with Eric Edwards in the porno theatre was funny as was the scene with the same female agent parading as a pig tailed young girl, about to snuff out the dirty old Albanian, my favourite scene, and kinky too. Below par, really.
Ron Jeremy showing his juggling skills.
Boba_Fett113830 January 2012
Watching a porn is often more fun than most people think, or are afraid to admit perhaps. Of course it has some bad acting, a silly story and a low budget behind it but the filmmakers and 'actors' at least know this and simply decide to have some fun, while shooting their movie. It's the thing that makes "Dracula Exotica" quite entertaining to watch.
Having the character of Dracula in a porn movie and in modern times is hardly anything original. It has been done a lot and it's still getting done now days. But I can say that this is one of the rare movies in which it actually works out as fun and entertaining.
As far as the genre goes, this is at least a movie that attempts to have a story in it. Not that I cared about it, or could follow it really but it at least ties certain things together, so it's less random to watch than most other genre movies, that basically consists out of a couple of unrelated sex scenes. It's still pretty random the way certain characters are ending up having sex together but oh well, it's a porn flick, so of course there has to be a sex scene in it every 5 minutes or so.
I also really liked the way the movie got shot. It was a very classy movie, with also some good settings and costumes in it. It's weird but you would think the way porn movies got shot would have been improved and perfected over the years but just give me a movie like this over a modern one any day! It's more pleasantly shot, original and overall feels far more authentic as well.
It also stars same well known names, from the world of classic porn, such as Samantha Fox, Vanessa del Rio and Ron Jeremy in a small bit part, in which he gets to show his juggling skills. And you could say what you want about this guy but he's always entertaining to see in anything (or anyone). He always genuinely seems to be having fun with it all and seems to have a great sense of humor as well.
But of course it's not a great movie and it also definitely is a bit overlong. 100 minutes is just far too long for a movie of this sort and it also definitely starts to drag more toward its end. The movie so easily could had ended 30 minutes earlier and I'm sure if it that I would had given the movie a higher rating, if that would had been the case.
It still definitely remains a fun and entertaining enough genre flick, that serves its purpose well.
6/10
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Having the character of Dracula in a porn movie and in modern times is hardly anything original. It has been done a lot and it's still getting done now days. But I can say that this is one of the rare movies in which it actually works out as fun and entertaining.
As far as the genre goes, this is at least a movie that attempts to have a story in it. Not that I cared about it, or could follow it really but it at least ties certain things together, so it's less random to watch than most other genre movies, that basically consists out of a couple of unrelated sex scenes. It's still pretty random the way certain characters are ending up having sex together but oh well, it's a porn flick, so of course there has to be a sex scene in it every 5 minutes or so.
I also really liked the way the movie got shot. It was a very classy movie, with also some good settings and costumes in it. It's weird but you would think the way porn movies got shot would have been improved and perfected over the years but just give me a movie like this over a modern one any day! It's more pleasantly shot, original and overall feels far more authentic as well.
It also stars same well known names, from the world of classic porn, such as Samantha Fox, Vanessa del Rio and Ron Jeremy in a small bit part, in which he gets to show his juggling skills. And you could say what you want about this guy but he's always entertaining to see in anything (or anyone). He always genuinely seems to be having fun with it all and seems to have a great sense of humor as well.
But of course it's not a great movie and it also definitely is a bit overlong. 100 minutes is just far too long for a movie of this sort and it also definitely starts to drag more toward its end. The movie so easily could had ended 30 minutes earlier and I'm sure if it that I would had given the movie a higher rating, if that would had been the case.
It still definitely remains a fun and entertaining enough genre flick, that serves its purpose well.
6/10
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Love Bites
Nodriesrespect6 February 2007
Warning: Spoilers
Shaun Costello and Ken Schwartz followed their successful collaboration on Fiona ON FIRE, easily the best porn adaptation of Otto Preminger's classic noir LAURA (territory Costello had frequented before with his low budget FIRE IN FRANCESCA), with this glossy mix of horror, humor and hardcore sex. Unfortunately, they also had a falling out over this one, director Costello claiming that writer/producer Schwartz had merely managed to squander most of the movie's sizable budget. Even if it were so, this barely reflects on the film's uniformly high production values, beautifully complemented by its superstar cast and terrific script that - for copyright reasons ? - virtually creates a whole new background for the Prince of Darkness, renamed Leopold Michael Georgi Dracula (though still from Transylvania) and portrayed with tremendous screen presence by adult film veteran Jamie Gillis in a career performance to rival the one he gave in Radley Metzger's OPENING OF MISTY BEETHOVEN.
The story begins in the Carpathian country side in 1590 with the idle nobleman dividing his time between drunken orgies (involving the likes of Marlene Willoughby, Christine De Schaffer, Marc Valentine and the ubiquitous Ron Jeremy) and lusting for chaste, unattainable gamekeeper's daughter Surka (Samantha Fox in a fetching auburn wig) whom he cannot marry because she is beneath him. Therefore she's confined to a nunnery instead. One night, overcome with passion, he drags her from her bed chambers and violates the terrified young virgin in front of his inebriated underlings. Rather than take the life of the man she loves, even in spite of what he has wrought, Surka kills herself with her rapist's knife. Finding her lifeless body, the inconsolable Count pulls the dagger from her fatal wound and plunges it into his own chest, thereby giving birth to...the Curse of Dracula !
Nearly four centuries later, the Count rises from his tomb, awakened by the desires of a pair of vampire twins (Denise & Diana Sloan, at least one of whom is remarkably limber as the girl's pretzel-like contortions attest), ordering his faithful servant Renfrew (Gordon Duvall, who had memorable non-sex bits in Costello's PANDORA'S MIRROR and HOT DREAMS yet did perform sexually with Seka in both Leonard Kirtman's PRINCESS and CONFESSIONS OF SEKA and with Veronica Hart in Carter Stevens' TWILITE PINK) to douse the women with holy water as he has to leave for America to join a tourist he has noticed taking the tour of his castle and who looks exactly like his dearly departed Surka. Unbeknown to him, Sally (also played by Fox) is actually a spy working for the CIA, uncovering unsavory international wheelings and dealings for her hilariously self-important employer who goes by the code name "Big Bird" (an unexpected comic turn by the ever reliable Eric Edwards). Fox, looking mighty fine by the way, does one of the funniest sex scenes ever as she dresses up as a precocious little girl to extract important information from a corrupt Albanian official, indelibly played by her regular screen partner and sometime boyfriend Bobby Astyr. Suspected of espionage, Dracula's immediately put under government surveillance.
Sailing into New York harbor, he has already recruited the estimable talents of Vita Valdez (who else but Vanessa Del Rio ?), a devious drug smuggler pressed into secretarial duty by the cunning Count who memorably queries about her typing expertise as he goes down on her ! As can be expected, Vanessa singlehandedly ups the raunch factor with a frenzied group grope, draining such formidable stallions as Ron Hudd, Dave Ruby (the Al Bundy of porn) and Ashley Moore from their vital fluids. A slab session with necrophiliac morgue assistant Herschel Savage brings her back to life, just in time to divert nosy inspector Blick (essayed by Al Levitsky in bumbling, Clouseau-like fashion) from Drac's trail. Not so with Sally who finds herself drawn to the man she has to investigate, leading her to realize that she is indeed his long lost lover's reincarnation. In an ending pretty much lifted ad verbatim (with a nice twist pertaining to the "nature of the beast") from Stan Dragoti's highly enjoyable LOVE AT FIRST BITE, true love overcomes such obstacles as several murderous instances and a 400 year age difference !
Costello, by now settling into his latter day "Warren Evans" guise, proves his sophistication as a filmmaker with a number of stunningly composed shots, the most impressive of which may be the perfect between the legs shot of a self-pleasuring Fox working a candle in and out of her nether regions in front of a large mirror reflecting Dracula's ghostly apparition. He never allows his visual flair to get in the way of good old fashioned storytelling skills though, working through a convoluted plot at nearly breakneck speed, tossing off genuinely funny gags left and right while still finding time for the requisite number of well-done carnal encounters. In addition to those already mentioned, Gillis and Fox give evidence of special chemistry in their climactic union with not even the Count's copious facial pop shot diminishing the scene's swooningly romantic flavor.
The story begins in the Carpathian country side in 1590 with the idle nobleman dividing his time between drunken orgies (involving the likes of Marlene Willoughby, Christine De Schaffer, Marc Valentine and the ubiquitous Ron Jeremy) and lusting for chaste, unattainable gamekeeper's daughter Surka (Samantha Fox in a fetching auburn wig) whom he cannot marry because she is beneath him. Therefore she's confined to a nunnery instead. One night, overcome with passion, he drags her from her bed chambers and violates the terrified young virgin in front of his inebriated underlings. Rather than take the life of the man she loves, even in spite of what he has wrought, Surka kills herself with her rapist's knife. Finding her lifeless body, the inconsolable Count pulls the dagger from her fatal wound and plunges it into his own chest, thereby giving birth to...the Curse of Dracula !
Nearly four centuries later, the Count rises from his tomb, awakened by the desires of a pair of vampire twins (Denise & Diana Sloan, at least one of whom is remarkably limber as the girl's pretzel-like contortions attest), ordering his faithful servant Renfrew (Gordon Duvall, who had memorable non-sex bits in Costello's PANDORA'S MIRROR and HOT DREAMS yet did perform sexually with Seka in both Leonard Kirtman's PRINCESS and CONFESSIONS OF SEKA and with Veronica Hart in Carter Stevens' TWILITE PINK) to douse the women with holy water as he has to leave for America to join a tourist he has noticed taking the tour of his castle and who looks exactly like his dearly departed Surka. Unbeknown to him, Sally (also played by Fox) is actually a spy working for the CIA, uncovering unsavory international wheelings and dealings for her hilariously self-important employer who goes by the code name "Big Bird" (an unexpected comic turn by the ever reliable Eric Edwards). Fox, looking mighty fine by the way, does one of the funniest sex scenes ever as she dresses up as a precocious little girl to extract important information from a corrupt Albanian official, indelibly played by her regular screen partner and sometime boyfriend Bobby Astyr. Suspected of espionage, Dracula's immediately put under government surveillance.
Sailing into New York harbor, he has already recruited the estimable talents of Vita Valdez (who else but Vanessa Del Rio ?), a devious drug smuggler pressed into secretarial duty by the cunning Count who memorably queries about her typing expertise as he goes down on her ! As can be expected, Vanessa singlehandedly ups the raunch factor with a frenzied group grope, draining such formidable stallions as Ron Hudd, Dave Ruby (the Al Bundy of porn) and Ashley Moore from their vital fluids. A slab session with necrophiliac morgue assistant Herschel Savage brings her back to life, just in time to divert nosy inspector Blick (essayed by Al Levitsky in bumbling, Clouseau-like fashion) from Drac's trail. Not so with Sally who finds herself drawn to the man she has to investigate, leading her to realize that she is indeed his long lost lover's reincarnation. In an ending pretty much lifted ad verbatim (with a nice twist pertaining to the "nature of the beast") from Stan Dragoti's highly enjoyable LOVE AT FIRST BITE, true love overcomes such obstacles as several murderous instances and a 400 year age difference !
Costello, by now settling into his latter day "Warren Evans" guise, proves his sophistication as a filmmaker with a number of stunningly composed shots, the most impressive of which may be the perfect between the legs shot of a self-pleasuring Fox working a candle in and out of her nether regions in front of a large mirror reflecting Dracula's ghostly apparition. He never allows his visual flair to get in the way of good old fashioned storytelling skills though, working through a convoluted plot at nearly breakneck speed, tossing off genuinely funny gags left and right while still finding time for the requisite number of well-done carnal encounters. In addition to those already mentioned, Gillis and Fox give evidence of special chemistry in their climactic union with not even the Count's copious facial pop shot diminishing the scene's swooningly romantic flavor.
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