The sequel to director Joe DeMuro’s solid love letter to monster mash movies of yore, Tales of Dracula, I was surprised to see that this wasn’t a feature. The DVD case suggests the deceptively inaccurate running time of 60 minutes, but the actual film is around 44 minutes long.
It follows two primary stories. The first is that of Jessica Von Helsing (Samantha Sloma) travelling into Transylvania to tackle Count Dracula (Wayne W. Johnson, Tales of Dracula & The Vampire (2013)), without realising that he is looking forward to meeting her. The conductor on the train is called Renfield (John Carey), which can’t bode well…
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| Wayne W. Johnson as Dracula |
The other storyline follows Creighton Reed (Tom Delillo, also Tales of Dracula) who, having killed as the wolfman once again, reaches a Romani encampment and is caught stealing a shirt by Marina (Olga N. Bogdanova). She does his tarot and realises the hefty weight fate has put on him and is going to shoo him off when her elders intervene. It turns out she is also a werewolf but they have a relic that presents her from turning and a method of killing Dracula, if Reed will help…
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| female vampire |
Of course paths cross and the two stories start to overlap. The relic the Romani have belonged to Radu (Jon Campbell), chief werewolf and brother of Vlad Dracula (which makes this Dracula a version who was, in life, Vlad Ţepeş). The film, like its predecessor, is shot in black and white and the overall impression I had was good but desperately too short and so it left more questions than it answered.
The imdb page is here.
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