This movie poses an important question: WHAT IF DRACULA BUT DOG? Romanian soldiers uncover a tomb in Griffith Park, erm, I mean the Transylvanian countryside. Turns out it’s the Dracula family plot! The place gives the sergeant the creeps so he skedaddles and leaves one poor soldier behind to guard the tomb. The soldier makes the classic mistake of removing a stake from one of the coffins’ corpses. It’s the remains of a dog — the vampiric Dobermann Zoltan — who promptly returns to life and slaughters the soldier, before reanimating his old master, an innkeeper.
A flashback reveals that Zoltan was made into a vampire by ol’ Count Dracula himself in the 17th century, after the dog thwarted an attack by the bloodsucking fiend on an innocent maiden. The innkeeper was turned into a familiar of the Count. Now the undead duo must travel to Los Angeles to seek out the only living descendant of Dracula, a psychiatrist called Michael Drake (good name). (The Dobermann was of course first bred in the 1880s, making the whole scenario preposterous.)
Every cultural era has its own breed of dog deemed particularly dangerous or plain evil, and my impression is that in my lifetime the evil dogs of the day have been:
German shepherd (70’s)
Dobermann (80’s)
Rottweiler (90’s)
Pitbull (late 90’s and beyond)
(source: movies)
This movie was made during peak Dobermann but it features several other kinds of dogs as well, some of whom are also turned into vampire dogs (spoiler alert). Some intense scenes here, including when Zoltan and two dog buddies are trying to force their way into a cabin where a couple of humans have barricaded themselves. Probably not recommended if you really love dogs or if you really dislike them — dogs are both victims of, and perpetrators of, a decent amount of violence.
All the dog actors are good dogs. Make up effects by Stan Winston. Dr. Runtime approved (87 mins).
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