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4.6 1h 26m

Dracula's Widow

"She's the Woman of Your Dreams ... In Your Worst Nightmares."

Dracula's wife, Vanessa, comes back to life and attacks Raymond who has a waxworks museum, where he displays notorious monsters and murderers.

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Top Cast

  • Sylvia Kristel

    Sylvia Kristel

    Vanessa

  • Josef Sommer

    Josef Sommer

    Lannon

  • Lenny Von Dohlen

    Lenny Von Dohlen

    Raymond

  • Marc Coppola

    Marc Coppola

    Brad

  • Stefan Schnabel

    Stefan Schnabel

    Helsing

  • Traber Burns

    Traber Burns

    Citrano

  • Richard K. Olsen

    Richard K. Olsen

    The Drunk

  • Duke Ernsberger

    Duke Ernsberger

    Bart

  • Rachel Jones

    Rachel Jones

    Jenny

Overview

Dracula's wife, Vanessa, comes back to life and attacks Raymond who has a waxworks museum, where he displays notorious monsters and murderers.

Rating

4.6 / 10
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1 Reviews

  • Wuchak
    Wuchak
    7 Mar 2, 2026

    **_Undead Vanessa arrives in a crate at a House of Wax in Hollywood_** This was the debut movie helmed by Christopher Coppola, the older brother of Nicolas Cage and nephew of Francis Ford Coppola. It comes in the comic booky tradition of colorful vampire flicks like “Count Yorga, Vampire” and “The Night Stalker,” as well as the fourth episode of the ensuing Kolchak series, “The Vampire.” The depiction of the vampire bat isn’t much better than the bat in “Suspiria” that presumably enters a room to flush the toilet. “Gargoyle: Wings of Darkness” (2004) was obviously influenced by it because it likewise throws in a satanic ritual with quasi-altar sacrifice and requisite scantily clad female. I liked how Vanessa shows the posers what real evil is, to say the least. Speaking of females, the eponymous character is played by none other than Sylvia Kristel, known for the infamous French film “Emmanuelle” and its sequels, as well as the well-done “Mysteries,” based on Norwegian Knut Hamsun's hailed 1892 novel. Christopher’s first choices for the role were Isabella Rossellini and Joanna Pacula, yet Sylvia is effective enough; she was 34 during shooting. Meanwhile, Rachel Jones is on hand as the protagonist’s winsome girlfriend. Too bad her part wasn’t milked further. The fools. Christopher’s older brother Marc Coppola has a small part as Brad. What’s interesting is that the aforementioned protagonist is played by Lenny von Dohlen and he looks a LOT like Nicolas Cage in the ’80s. I thought for sure they were related, but that’s not the case. There’s a sequence where the camera pans over the Hollywood Walk of Fame and it shows Francis Ford Coppola’s star on the sidewalk, but it’s fake since (1) the movie was shot on the other side of the country (see below) and (2) Francis didn’t get his star until the beginning of spring, 2022. It runs 1h 26m and was shot in the spring of 1987 in Wilmington on the southeast coast of North Carolina. GRADE: B/B-

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Dracula's Widow (1988) Official Trailer [HQ]

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