Monster of the Day #3327

Updated on January 6, 2022 By Ken Begg 10 Comments

While Dracula was being made safe for kiddies–this is pretty natural, good at Godzilla’s trajectory in Japan–others tried to update the concept to make it relevant for the modern, groovy age. Oddly, a few of these attempts worked. In 1970 actor Robert Quarry briefly became a thing by starring in two Count Yorga movies. He also starred in The Deathmaster, which was basically Brundleflied Dracula and Charles Manson. I think the cynical endings–the identical one in both films–dates both films, but then they were made for their times, and really, they’re not too bad. Certainly better than Hammer’s attempts to bring Lee’s Dracula to modern times.

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  • Gamera977

    I feel guilty- I’ve not seen either of these.

    I’ll concur on ‘Dracula 1972’, the hippie outfits and horrible ‘music’ were far more frightening than Dracula and his vile plan.

  • Rock Baker

    AIP was hoping to groom Quarry into another Vincent Price. Oddly enough, a true vampire was something Price never played on screen.

  • Killer Meteor

    I have vague memories that he was one in The Monster Club…

  • What Killer Meteor says is correct. Price was a Vampire in The Monster Club. It came out in the early Eighties. It’s not one of his better flicks.

  • Gamera977

    ‘The Monster Club’ was on Amazon Prime a few years ago. I’ll concur. The humans are the real monsters might be a realistic take but it’s not what I watch a ‘monster” movie for.

  • The only story that stuck with me was the last one with the movie director. Something about it really hit the creepy button for me when I watched it as a kid. Made me seek R. Chetwynd-Hayes’s stuff, which is a good thing. (Though From Beyond the Grave is a better showing of his stuff.)

  • Ken_Begg

    More than that, Price didn’t play a lot of monsters at all. He played Phibes, and there’s House of Wax (kind of), but usually he played the haunted rather than the haunter.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    His Matthew Hopkins was pretty memorable.

  • Rock Baker

    Thanks for the info! It remains true, however, that Price had never played a vampire when Kermit the frog was discussing with him the techniques used to play vampires.

  • Killer Meteor

    The montaage of illustrations showing the ghoul were really creepy!