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Review: Curtis Everitt’s Queen Dracula

No. No, no, no. No, no. I had such high hopes for Queen Dracula, because yay vampires, but the new movie from Saint Studios and Eccentric Films is… absolutely a disaster. Now, HorrorSociety.com was founded specifically with the goal of promoting and championing independent horror films, which Queen Dracula certainly is. However, I cannot put my stamp of approval on a picture that didn’t at least try. And that’s exactly the vibe I get off the new release from Reel Nightmare Films. Most of the shots, delivery of dialogue, simple action sequences, and editing are just… so bad, that I can’t help but to feel like the crew behind this movie did this whole feature in one weekend and slapped it together on Windows’ Movie Maker. I hate crucifying a movie, no pun intended, but Curtis Everitt’s Queen Dracula is nothing short of terrible. It’s going to take a lot more than a couple Bram Stoker and Dracula references to insight the reaction that you want, especially when the film has no production value at all and the cast half-assed the majority of their performances.

Again, I really wanted to like this movie because I love vampires, and Queen Dracula features classic ones. I’m talking about old-school, smoky, enthralling vampires that don’t sparkle and fall in love with unpleasant humans. Although Queen Dracula follows a man who receives a mysterious postcard summoning him to Transylvania, which looks a whole lot like some backwoods town in Virginia, and he meets an equally mysterious woman named D, Queen Dracula is far from a love story, but I can’t tell you much about it outside of that because this one couldn’t keep my attention for more than three seconds at a time. There’s not enough sexuality, not enough blood and most importantly NOT ENOUGH VAMPIRES to make this a cool flick, and the acting was laughable at best. Leslie Stewart, Danny Zanelotti, Abigail Holmes, Emily Burns-Miller, Sadie Herbert, Cynthia Bonner and Christopher Michael Griffin star in Queen Dracula, produced by Leslie Stewart and written and directed by Curtis Everitt. And I’m literally only including credits to make this paragraph longer…

When it comes to saying good things about Queen Dracula, I have nothing good to go on. It’s obvious that they had fun making it, and the scores were actually pretty good, but there’s nothing to send a postcard home about outside of that. I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone. DO NOT invite this vampire flick into your home. Final Score: 3.5 out of 10.

Michael DeFellipo

(Senior Editor)

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