la sanguisuga conduce la danza and or the bloodsucker lead the dance a i believe be it common english title and be set on ireland in 1902 where the mysterious count richard marnack ( giacomo rossi stuart ) invite soon to be out of work theatre actress evelyn ( patrizia webley a patrizia de rossi ) and three more of her fellow soon to be out of work actress friend cora ( krista nell ) and penny ( lidia olizzi ) and rosalind ( marzia damon a caterina chiani ) to his castle situate on a small island just off the coast . at first evelyn be reluctant but be persuade when it be agree stage hand samuel ( leo valeriano ) go along as well . once there count marnack tell his guest that his father and grandfather both cut the head off their cheating wife use a ceremonial knife and there a feeling of unease when it turn out that evelyn look exactly the same a the current count wife who run away not too long ago . along with have to worry about weirdo servant it turn out that someone want to use the knife themselves to chop a few head off . this italian production be write and direct by alfredo rizzo and be total and complete and utter crap from start to finish . first thing first let start the criticism with the title the bloodsucker lead the dance and let examine that title because when i do i feel somewhat cheated that there aren not any vampire or any form of bloodsucking whatsoever and no one lead anything at anytime and there most certainly isn not any dance or dance so do not expect any of these thing . what you should expect though be a tedious and dull and boring pointless little giallo that take over an hour before anyone be kill and any sort of murder mystery start to take shape and the first hour of la sanguisuga conduce la danza be a plot less and uninteresting a anything out there . the best way to imagine it be to think of the most boring soft core porn film you have ever see and then cut most of the soft core porn out and that just leave bad actor and bad dubbing and bad dialogue and a tiny bit of soft core sex and lesbianism and absolutely nothing else . yep and it really be that bad . the mystery element be crap and people do illogical thing for no apparent reason and the overly complicate twist end be as bad a the rest of it and the sixth sense ( 1999 ) this ain not . director rozzi do an ok job and la sanguisga conduce la danza actually have a nice look and feel to it despite it obvious low budget and i mean there be scene where he show a torm rag outside the castle however the stock footage use be in black and white . so the film jump from bright colour to black and white whenever it cut to the storm and back to colour again . there be one absolutely hilarious scene where a maid and her friend discuss her breast and she let her friend feel them who be then full of compliment and this scene be so funny and just so unnatural that it priceless and easily the film best moment even if a bad 70 porno would be embarrass by the dialogue . there be minimal nudity and the sex or lesbian scene be very tame . forget about any blood or gore a there isn not any apart from a decapitate head . technically the film pretty good and the period setting and production design be actually quite impressive although it not massive in scope it do the job effectively enough . the film have a nice sense of colour and the cinematography be fine . the film be dub so it hard to give an opinion on the original performance but the voice actor be terrible and the dialogue be even bad than usual . la sanguisuga conduce la danza be a terrible film and it make no sense and it have virtually no story for over an hour and it have possibly the most misleading title ever and be really dull and bore with a confused stupid twist end . as far a euro horror fan go there be plenty of much good film than this so please do not waste your time and a for anyone else this be definitely one to avoid . trivia note represent the notorious ( and ban in the uk ) nazi exploitation or horror film horrify experiment of the s. s last day ( 1977 ) aka s hell camp and the beast in heat be direct by luigi batzella and he have a fairly substantial role a a police detective in la sanguisuga conduce la danza .