Tender Dracula

Tender Dracula
Directed by Pierre Grunstein
Written by Justin Lenoir
Starring
Music by Karl-Heinz Schäfe[1]
Production
company
  • Les Films Christian Fechner
  • Renn Productions
  • VMP

[1]

Distributed by AMLF[1]
Release dates
  • 1974 (1974)

[2]

Running time
 98 minutes[2]
Country France[2]
Language French[2]

Tender Dracula, or Confessions of a Blood Drinker (French: Tendre Dracula) is a 1974 French horror film directed by Pierre Grunstein.[2] The film stars Peter Cushing, Alida Valli and Miou-Miou. The film involves two scriptwriters and two girls who are ordered by their director to visit the castle home of a horror actor (Peter Cushing) and to talk him out of his intention to change from horror films to romantic ones. The longer they stay in the castle, the more likely it seems that the actor is an actual vampire.[3]

Production

The film was shot between February 11, 1974 and March 29, 1974.[1]

Release

The film was released in France in 1974.[2][4] The film was released in France with the alternative title La Grande Trouille.[2] It was released in the United States with the titles Tender Dracula, or Confessions of a Blood Drinker and The Big Scare.[2] It was released in the United States on January 1975.[5]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 "La Grande trouille". Bifi.fr (in French). Retrieved December 25, 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Browning, 2011. p.173
  3. ↑ Browning, 2011. p.174
  4. ↑ Fountain, Clarke. "Le Grande Trouille (1974)". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 25, 2012.
  5. ↑ Hallenbeck, 2009. p. 218

References


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