Zoltan, Hound of Dracula

Year: 1977

Director: Albert Band

Written by: Frank Ray Perilli

Threat: Dog

Weapon of Choice: Fangs

Based upon: Original

IMDb page: IMDb link

      Zoltan, Hound of Dracula

Other movies in this series:
None

Rish Outfield's reviews
Tee hee!
In spite of a moronic premise and the production values of a bad TV movie, this was not a wholly terrible movie. It was pretty bad, though.
Dracula's loyal pooch, Zoltan, is revived in ‘present day' and seeks Dracula's last living descendant (who has a son, but is still referred to as the last descendant). Who happens to own four dogs of his own and is camping with his family when Zoltan and his undead (type-casting) human companion track them down. Unfortunately, a lot of nothing happens after that. Abominable 70's synthesizer music played endlessly. The well-trained dogs were pretty good, most of the time (although when fake dogs were used, it was annoyingly obvious). Every once in a while, the dogs could be caught wagging their tails, but other than that, it was some nice stuff. They even put long vampire fangs on the dogs and add glowing eyes that are actually pretty frightening. Unfortunately, this sucker runs out of steam pretty quick and the middle hour is almost unbearably boring.
Oddly, the package said this was rated R, but I've seen Wonderful World of Disney broadcasts that were more Restricted.
I'd Recommend It To: I can't really recommend it, folks. It was better than it had any right to be, but still, what rights did it have?

The tyranist's thoughts
I thought of all kinds of witty things to say about this movie while I was watching it. I can't remember them all now, but it should probably be taken as a sign of how bored I was that I was even trying to think up funny things to say.
There are a lot of Vampire flicks and at least half of them involve Dracula or someone with the same name. This one, however, really pushes the limits of credibility. It doesn't help that I am not a dog lover and likely never will be. How seriously can I take a pack of canine vampires anyway?
Actually, it isn't the worst premise I've ever heard, but it doesn't even come close to being a good movie. It fails on pretty much every level. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone at all. It just doesn't cut it.

Total Skulls: 15

Sequel
Sequel setup skull
Rips off earlier film
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie
Future celebrity appears
Former celebrity appears
Bad title skull
Bad premise skull
Bad acting
Bad dialogue
Bad execution
MTV Editing
OTS
Girl unnecessarily gets naked
Wanton sex
Death associated with sex
Unfulfilled promise of nudity
Characters forget about threat skull
Secluded location skull
Power is cut skull
Phone lines are cut
Someone investigates a strange noise
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door
Camera is the killer
Victims cower in front of a window/door
Victim locks self in with killer
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls
Toilet stall scene
Shower/bath scene
Car stalls or won't start skull
Cat jumps out
Fake scare
Laughable scare skull
Stupid discovery of corpse
Dream sequence
No one believes only witness
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth
Music detracts from scene skullskull
Death in first five minutes skull
x years before/later skull
Dark and stormy night
Killer doesn't stay dead
Killer wears a mask
Killer is in closet
Killer is in car with victim
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes
Unscary villain/monster
Beheading
Blood fountain
Blood hits camera
Poor death effect skull
Excessive gore
No one dies at all
Virgin survives
Geek/Nerd survives
Little kid lamely survives skull
Dog/Pet miraculously survives
Unresolved subplots skull
"It was all a dream" ending
Unbelievably happy ending
Unbelievably crappy ending
What the hell?