Bernard Ménez

After being exiled by Romania’s new communist regime, Dracula and his adult son part ways into the modern world only to reunite in a love triangle.

When horror's biggest star (Peter Cushing) announces his retirement from the genre, two dimwit screenwriters and a pair of sexy actresses are dispatched to the actor's castle for a lavish farce d'horreur érotique of violence, whippings, orgies, tender romance and a devilishly dignified performance by Cushing, even while spanking the bare bottom of French starlet Miou-Miou.

Capturing the giddy spontaneity and creeping melancholy of the last days of summer, Jacques Rozier’s charming French New Wave gem surfaces the emotional undercurrents behind even the most carefree of holidays. Hazy 16mm imagery seizes memories in the making—although they are already fading away.