Your Daily Dracula – Daniele Liotti (Anthony Foster) as Vlady Drak, Un Vampiro a Miami (Breakfast With Dracula) (1993)
Among the most obscure (deservedly) Dracula movies, this isn’t a horror film or a comedy – it’s just somehow kind of a film. It has characters and a story and things happen but with no affect whatsoever. An opening dream sequence with a vampire (presumably Dracula) chasing a white-gowned woman through a graveyard and a bit of living dead hand action is a pastiche of a gothic horror scene, but when protagonist Vlady Drak (Liotti) wakes up in a car en route to Miami and shrugs it off we get into a two-pronged plot in which Vlady – who only just now starts to wonder how he got that name and who is ancestors were – struggles to make it as a male model in a highly competitive field and is sort of nudged by a camp butler (Scotty Daffon) into coming into his neck-biting heritage as the last descendent of Dracula.
The bleary version I saw had auto-generated subtitles which often rendered the protagonist’s name as Bloody Drag, which is more amusing than anything in the film – which, as I said, doesn’t seem to be intended as a comedy even on the shit level of Hard Times for Dracula or Dracula Mascafierro. Vlady gets to be a successful model when he leans into his vampire look and leaves nip-marks on the necks of Miami’s most glamorous women … but he’s looking for a virgin for … reasons and finds one in his aggressive agent (Deborah Murphy). Rival agent Andrews (guest star David Warbeck) seethes with envy and turns up with vampire-fighting clobber … but Vlady gets over being a Dracula and at the end is heading off in the sunshine to Hollywood. Shot on location in Miami by Fabrizio De Angelis (as Ted Russell, though his usual pseudonym was Larry Ludman), best known for the Thunder and Killer Crocodile films. Liotti, who debuts here, went on to star in the Spanish Lovecraftian Herencia Valdemar films and some high-end Spanish film and TV.
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