Grindhouse Double Feature: Count Dracula’s Great Love (1973) / Maneater of Hydra (1967)

Count Dracula’s Great Love (1973): Horror rises from the crypt to greet four lovely schoolmates, stranded by a stagecoach accident and taking shelter in what they believe to be an abandoned sanitarium. Here they meet its hospitable new owner, Dr. Marlow — who’s actually Count Dracula. Soon three of the beauties become fanged, blood-sucking fiends, joining Dracula as he proceeds to terrorize the countryside.
CONTAINS NUDITY. Starring Paul Naschy, Rossana Yanni, Haydee Politoff, Mirta Miller and Ingrid Garbo. Directed by Javier Aguirre.
Maneater Of Hydra (1967): A small European island, said to be haunted by vampires, is now uninhabited except for the villa of the suave Baron von Weser, a botanist. Eager to visit his ‘Botanical Wonderland,’ a group of tourists arrives on the island, but are swiftly murdered, their bodies drained of blood. The killer is a walking carnivorous plant developed by the mad baron and it prowls in search of the blood it needs for sustenance! Director Mel Welles was also the star of the other carnivorous plant classic, The Little Shop of Horrors (1960.) Starring Cameron Mitchell, George Martin, Elisa Montes, Kay Fischer and Ralph Naukoff. Directed by Mel Welles. –Tom Weaver