Billy the Kid Versus Dracula Billy the Kid Versus Dracula Billy the Kid Versus Dracula is a 1966 American low-budget horror-Western film directed by William Beaudine. It was released theatrically as part of a double feature along with "Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter". Both films were shot in eight days at Corriganville Movie Ranch and at Paramount Studios in mid-1965; both were the final feature films of director William Beaudine. The film revolves around Billy the Kid (played by stuntman Chuck Courtney) trying to save his fiancée from Dracula (John Carradine repeating his role from the low-budget Universal Studios movie sequels to the Bela Lugosi
Dracula in popular culture Spanish production company Janus Films. This movie predated Francis Ford Coppola's vision of Dracula as a romantic figure by 20 years. In 1974, Andy Warhol presented an outrageously campy Dracula (also known as "Blood for Dracula"), directed by Paul Morrissey and starring cult icons Udo Kier (as the Count) and Joe Dallesandro. "Dracula and Son" (1976) is a French comedy again starring Christopher Lee as Dracula, here having trouble convincing his son to take up the family mantle of vampirism (in interviews, Lee has claimed that his character was not called Dracula during filming, and that the producers only decided