Your Daily Dracula – Jonathan Knosp as the Voice of Dracul, Billie the Kid (2022)
Written and directed by Paul Tomborello – who has also made something called Alien Shark – this is the third Billy the Kid/vampire mash-up movie, after Billy the Kid vs Dracula and one of the BloodRayne pictures. It was evidently shot on a very limited budget, presumably using a tourist attraction Western town – actors couldn’t be dissuaded from wearing modern underwear/see-through blouse combo or non-19th century spectacles or having the kind of elaborate hairdos you’d not expect to see on a hermit prospector (or anyone else) in the Old West … and the western stuff has the feel of grown-ups playing at being cowboys, with a few smart lines amid the gunplay and posing.
Outlaw Billie (Olivia Hsu) and Sheriff Jack Barton (Frank Prell) are in a posse with well-spoken newcomer James Underhill (Zion Monroe), who turns out to be the minion of the king vampire Dracul – voiced by Knosp, with no credit for whoever’s under the make-up. The big bad is a husky type who looks like a cross between Nosferatu and a Sontaran and wears a comically undersized stetson hat on his potato head, though he does all his king vampiring from a remote mine where he’s hiding out. It has a lot of characters and plots, some of which go wildly astray – things stumble with the romance between a vampire girl (Veronica Conran) who’s escaped her pack and that miner (Brandon Z Ruiz) with the unbelievable haircut (seriously, they’d have hanged a guy who rode into Tombstone with that coiffure top/fade sides look). Hsu, maybe the first Asian woman cast as Billy the Kid, is kind of fun, if no more credible than anything else here. Not exactly good, though I admit I’m now tempted to check out Alien Shark.
The whole film’s on Youtube.
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