Dracula (The Dirty Old Man)

Details

This listing is for the standard edition Blu-ray. The limited edition slipcover was limited to 2,000 units and is sold out. The two versions are identical, aside from the slipcover.

Presented in partnership with Something Weird Video...

The American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) represents the world's largest theatrical catalog of exploitation cinema. Their home video line presents a diverse selection of movies, ranging from new preservations of classics from the vast library of Something Weird to the wildest in shot-on-video (SOV) titles. Vinegar Syndrome’s sister company, OCN Distribution, is thrilled to be representing this diverse and unique home video line!

Escaping from the brain-baked wasteland of Texas and the wasteland-brain of wildman producer Whit Boyd, DRACULA (THE DIRTY OLD MAN) is the movie that Bram Stoker's estate doesn't want you to see. The deranged story follows Dracula and his faithful werewolf servant Irving Jackalman as they unleash a reign of psychosexual terror upon humankind. But that's only half the story. The movie's original soundtrack was discarded and replaced with voices and narration that were clearly improvised. The result is what might have happened if an episode of DARK SHADOWS was hijacked by Russ Meyer, then dubbed by a Borscht Belt comedian from Mars. AGFA + Something Weird have assembled a fangtastic tribute to this outsider spectacle, complete with two versions of the film and extras that are a bite for sore eyes.

directed by: William Edwards
starring: Various
1969 / 65 min / 1.85:1 / English DTS-HD MA 1.0

Additional info:

• Region Free Blu-ray
• Preserved from the only known 35mm print in existence
• Commentary by Texploitation film historians Melinda Belles & Dennis Campa
• Alternate version (SD preservation, 69 mins)
• Bonus movie: TALES OF A SALESMAN (1965, 53 mins), preserved from the only known 35mm Technicolor print in existence
• Trailers from Dracula’s dirty old cave
• English SDH subtitles