YMMV / Count Dracula (1970)

• Complete Monster: Dracula himself is a bloodsucking fiend as always. An ancient being that has feasted upon the blood of innocents for years, Dracula turns multiple women into his monstrous "brides", feeding them a crying baby in one scene. Draining Jonathan Harker's blood and planning to kill him, Dracula targets Jonathan's lover Mina and her best friend Lucy, turning Lucy into one of his brides and siccing her on a small child to kill. Dracula uses the insane Renfield as his puppet, having driven the man to madness after killing his beloved daughter, and tries to force Renfield to kill Mina for him. After a failed attempt at claiming Mina as his next victim, Dracula tries to destroy Van Helsing and his allies once and for all.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Klaus Kinski plays Renfield. He would later play a different version of Dracula in Nosferatu the Vampyre.
• Questionable Casting: Herbert Lom as Van Helsing. As he is best known for his role as Charles Dreyfus in The Pink Panther, this dramatic role seems jarring to viewers. In fairness, however, internationally, he played numerous dramatic roles, including another doctor, Armstrong, in "And Then There Were None," in the 70s. Also, between his first and second appearances as Dreyfus, there was a decade gap between the two films, and it wasn't until the mid to late 70s that Lom put in multiple appearances in the comedic role of Dreyfus, so he wasn't as connected to the role when this film was made.

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