Grave of the Vampire

1972
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1h 31m

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5.0/10

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A young man, born of a rape committed by a legendary vampire against a living woman, vows to locate and vanquish his undead father.A young man, born of a rape committed by a legendary vampire against a living woman, vows to locate and vanquish his undead father.A young man, born of a rape committed by a legendary vampire against a living woman, vows to locate and vanquish his undead father.

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Trivia
This film was shot in 11 days on a budget of $50,000.

Goofs
The opening scenes of Croft's attack on Leslie and Paul and the police department's investigation of the attack are supposed to take place sometime between 20 to 30 years before the main events of the film (which take place decades later in the early 1970s), but the men's long hair and the cut of the detective's suit in these scenes are clearly contemporary to 1972 (the year of the film's release).

Quotes
James Eastman: [voiceover] My mother found it difficult to tell me that I wasn't like other children; I could never share a life with whole human beings. I slowly learned that the thing that raped my mother and fathered me was no living feeling man, but a malignant force of cancer that refused to be destroyed. It wasn't only her blood my mother gave to keep me alive, her youth and her own life was sucked up into the syringe that fed me.

Crazy credits
At the end of the film, the words "Fin -- ou peut etre pas," appear on the screen, which are French for "The End -- or maybe not."

Alternate versions
The film's UK Vipco DVD version is identical to its original theatrical cut, which was cut by the BBFC to remove a scene of a woman cutting her breast with a knife to feed her child blood and scenes of blood flowing down her arm after an injection with, and an extraction of, the needle of a hypodermic syringe.

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Edited into FrightMare Theater: Grave of the Vampire (2018)

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Featured review

7/10

Somber and dead serious--but good

A couple are making out in a graveyard. For some reason a vampire awakens. He kills the man and rapes the woman (in an open grave no less). She gets pregnant, has the baby--but the baby will only drink blood! She provides her own and eventually dies. The boy grows up and vows to find his father and kill him for what he did to his mother. They do meet and things go out of control.

OK--you have to ignore logic with this one. At one point a policeman knows it's a vampire who raped the woman and who he is--but how? And a vampire is teaching night school (!!!). And WHY would a vampire rape a woman to begin with? Technically--he's already dead! Push those aside and you can actually enjoy this.

The film has a very downbeat, somber tone--as it should. No jokes or winking at the camera. Michael Pataki is very good (and scary) as the vampire father. William Smith has a few good moments as his son. The rest of the acting is just terrible. Still this movie works. It's well-directed, has an eerie music score by Jaime Mendoza-Nava and some really creepy sequences (the one near the beginning where a woman discovers a vampire in her basement made me jump). A pretty unknown little horror film that's worth seeking out. I give it a 7.