Pulp Action from the Wild West through the Dirty 30s and More.
Five burlesque dancers and company find themselves in a vampire’s castle during a storm. Though it advertises it is for “Adults Only,” these days it wouldn’t get much beyond the PG rating. Standard vampire tropes with an interesting twist. A fun way to kill 90 minutes or so. Currently playing on tubi
Lon Chaney & Louise Allbritton
Louise Allbritton
Theda Bara poses with one of her victims in these promotional shots for the 1915 silent film A Fool Was There. Continue reading “A Fool Was There”
Alice Eis and Bert French performing the “Vampire Dance”
Continue reading “The Vampire, 1913”
Batman fights Dracula was a Filipino production from 1967, and was not authorized by DC Comics. No known copies exist.
An aristocratic vampire swears an oath to kill the enemies who killed his father. In order to terrify them even further, he warns each one when he is coming for them.(IMDb.com)
The ancient vampire Count Dracula arrives in England and begins to prey upon the virtuous young Mina. (IMDb.com)
(The St. Charles Herald, Louisiana, September 06, 1884)
A physician of local fame in an Eastern city said to the writer recently: “This is an age of queer mental and bodily delusions, despite its enlightenment. One of the oddest cases that I ever saw I was called on to treat the other day. A man came in to complain that his ankles were wounded, found that the wounds were scratches, and expressed my surprise that he should have consulted a physician about a trifle. He said he often found the skin of his ankles broken in the same way on rising from bed. I suggested that he smooth the foot board, and not kick it so much. Then the real object of his visit came out. What do you think it was? With bated breath he whispered that he was the victim of a vampire—
A vampire contest which ran in conjunction with the showing the motion picture “A Fool There Was,” Rock Island, IL, 1922
