{"id":16445,"date":"2011-03-31T09:53:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T16:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=16445"},"modified":"2021-01-14T14:20:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T21:20:56","slug":"billy-the-kid-versus-dracula-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=16445","title":{"rendered":"Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;My Lisa is dead &#8212; the marks of a vampire on her throat!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-Kid-Vs-Dracula-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-Kid-Vs-Dracula-Poster-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-Kid-Vs-Dracula-Poster-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-Kid-Vs-Dracula-Poster-84x128.jpg 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-Kid-Vs-Dracula-Poster-672x1024.jpg 672w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-Kid-Vs-Dracula-Poster.jpg 1842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA vampire (John Carradine) pretends to be the uncle of a beautiful young woman (Melinda Plowman) engaged to Billy the Kid (Chuck Courtney).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Carradine Films<\/li>\n<li>Mistaken Identities<\/li>\n<li>Vampires<\/li>\n<li>Westerns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nShot in just eight days in Simi Valley &#8212; back-to-back with its &#8220;counterpart&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=16433\"><em>Jesse James Meets Frankenstein&#8217;s Daughter<\/em> (1966)<\/a> &#8212; this infamously awful hybrid horror-western by director <a href=\"http:\/\/allmovie.com\/artist\/william-beaudine-81110\">William &#8220;One Shot&#8221; Beaudine<\/a> is, like its companion piece, based upon a reasonably inspired revisionist concept: what if a famous western outlaw (like Billy the Kid or Jesse James) were brought back to life and given a chance to interact with a notorious horror icon such as Dracula or Dr. Frankenstein? Unfortunately, the concepts behind these two clunkers are the best things about them. In this case, Courtney makes for a disappointingly boring Billy the Kid (who has reformed from his murderous ways): <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Courtney.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Courtney-1024x770.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-63287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Courtney-1024x770.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Courtney-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Courtney-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Courtney-768x577.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Courtney-359x270.png 359w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Courtney.png 1095w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and while Carradine is given a few pieces of choice dialogue to spout &#8212; &#8220;Where do I find this backwoods female pill slinger?&#8221; &#8212; he doesn&#8217;t quite ham it up enough to make his role all that memorable. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Carradine2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Carradine2-1024x832.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"520\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-63285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Carradine2-1024x832.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Carradine2-300x244.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Carradine2-128x104.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Carradine2-768x624.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Carradine2-332x270.png 332w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Carradine2.png 1089w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, everything else about the production is just sloppy enough to be mildly laughable (n.b. the presence of lackadaisical western music playing in the background while Billy tells Betty [Plowman] the shocking news that her mother has been killed in a stagecoach attack by Indians; the noticeably shoddy attempt to film night-time sequences during the day; Carradine&#8217;s transformation into a silly rubber bat on a string) &#8212; but not sloppy ENOUGH to categorize it as even close to Ed Wood&#8217;s &#8220;league&#8221; of <em>truly<\/em> bad films. It does earn additional &#8220;sloppy points&#8221;, however, for its egregiously lazy attempt to validate Dracula as a viable protagonist in the film: as pointed out by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moriareviews.com\/horror\/billy-the-kid-vs-dracula-1966.htm\">Richard Scheib of Moria Reviews<\/a>, Dracula (who is never named as such in the film, btw &#8212; only in the title) is actually &#8220;of little consequence to the plot&#8221;, given that he could just have easily been conceived as &#8220;a conman attempting to steal the land&#8221;, and is noticeably &#8220;allowed to walk about in daylight&#8221;<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Virginia Christine&#8217;s refreshingly sincere performance as an immigrant woman wary of Carradine from the start<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Christine.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Christine-1024x773.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"483\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-63284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Christine-1024x773.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Christine-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Christine-128x97.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Christine-768x580.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Christine-358x270.png 358w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Billy-the-Kid-Christine.png 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, simply to have seen at least one of Beaudine&#8217;s infamously titled &#8220;bad movies&#8221; (though either would probably suffice). Listed as a Camp Classic in the back of Peary&#8217;s book. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060168\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moriareviews.com\/horror\/billy-the-kid-vs-dracula-1966.htm\">Moria Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/classic-horror.com\/reviews\/billy_the_kid_vs_dracula_1966\">Classic Horror Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fantasticmoviemusings.com\/2017\/01\/15\/billy-the-kid-versus-dracula-1966\/\">SciFilm Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My Lisa is dead &#8212; the marks of a vampire on her throat!&#8221; Synopsis: A vampire (John Carradine) pretends to be the uncle of a beautiful young woman (Melinda Plowman) engaged to Billy the Kid (Chuck Courtney). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: John Carradine Films Mistaken Identities Vampires Westerns Review: Shot in just eight days in Simi Valley &#8212; back-to-back with its &#8220;counterpart&#8221;, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein&#8217;s Daughter (1966) &#8212; this infamously awful hybrid horror-western by director William &#8220;One Shot&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=16445\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16445"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63288,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16445\/revisions\/63288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}