count dracula ( udo kier ) be die . he need fresh human blood and the blood of a pure wirgin a dracula pronounce it . dracula be to well know in romania to be able to locate a virgin and so together with his servant anton ( arno juerging ) he set out to italy to find one and because of the italian strict religious upbringing they believe the chance of find a virgin will be high . upon arrival they question some local and learn of a married couple who live nearby and the marquis ( vittorio di sicca ) and marquise di fiore ( maxime mckendry ) who have four unmarried daughter and esmeralda ( milena vukotic ) and saphiria ( dominique darel ) and rubinia ( stefania casini ) and and perla ( silvia dionisio ) . the marquis have gamble the di fiore family money away and by marry one of their daughter off to a sick look dracula they think they will inherit his money when he die . dracula and anton be invite to stay at their large and but run down house . once there dracula have the opportunity suck all the blood he need and but thanks to mario balato ( joe dallesandro ) the di fiore servant and some of the girl aren not as pure a dracula need . before long mario become suspicious of the count and but will he find out the truth too late . write and direct by paul morrissey i be very disappointed by this extremely talky and overlong and rather dull excuse for a horror film . in fact it more of a historical drama or sex film rather than horror . there a lot of naked flesh and sex on show and the girl even go topless when gardening . there be only three gore scene in the whole film and two scene where kier violently throw up impure blood and when dracula be gorily kill at the end with an axe . after the funny black humour and over the top gore of flesh for frankenstein and which be make at the same time with some of the same cast and crew and i be expect more of the same . unfortunately i do not get it . the film look quite nice have be film in real historic location in europe and kier be watchable a count dracula and a he always be . but the film just take too long for anything interesting to happen and it become very boring to watch . there be very few character in the film and once dracula arrives at the di fiore house the di fiore themselves and their daughter and mario and dracula and anton be the only character see on screen for the whole of the rest of the film . apart from some nice scenery there be very little to recommend here for horror fan and disappointing .