Word: draculas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became as common to him as killing a fly." Zamora did not realize he was committing cold-blooded murder, contends Rubin, but "was just acting out a television script." The defense has claimed that circumstances of the crime were eerily similar to two recent episodes of Kojak and a Dracula movie Zamora watched the night before the murder. For its part, the prosecution disputes the plea of insanity, pointing out, for instance, that after the murder, Zamora treated four friends to a long weekend of fun at Disney World, compliments, he told them, of his father...
Meantime, a maid is hypnotized; mist wafts; blood is sucked; and Miss Lucy becomes the bride of Dracula. It is not as exciting as it sounds...
...expect your heart to leap into your throat at this Dracula. More likely, it will sink into another corner of sour anatomy. You would never hear your heart pounding anyway. Even if there were an ominous moment, your heartbeat would be blared out by cliched music of the horror-movie ilk. Every potentially scary minute is ruined, and by the third or fourth refrain the music is not even campy enough to be funny...
...Even Dracula's menace is reduced to the swishing of his cape. Played by Frank Langella. Dracula is all chin and pointed shoes; the man is so thin he looks like a caricature from Punch. His portrayal is no more full-bodied than he is: mere clenched fists, graceful slinking and fierce screams are not of themselves blood-chilling. It is a mystery that Dracula succeeds in hypnotizing people when no one on stage ever seems to look each other in the eye. They all shuffle and prance. Not one makes a move that goes right for the jugular...
DOWN THE STREET from the Wilbur, at the Astor moviehouse, The Saga of Dracula is now playing. Its sleazy poster claims "The King of Vampires sucks on." Perhaps it would have been more worthwhile to have seen the entertainment there, rather than to have hiked down to the Wilbur--where the King of Vampires simply sucks...