Die Gruft des Grauens (1972)
48KDie Gruft des Grauens: Directed by John Hayes. With William Smith, Michael Pataki, Lyn Peters, Diane Holden. Kroft, a legendary vampire, returns from sleep. Kroft attacks a couple in a graveyard, raping the woman. The child born feeds only on blood from his mother’s breast.
“A couple are making out in a graveyard. For some reason a vampire awakens. He kills the man and rapes the woman (in an open grave no less). She gets pregnant, has the baby–but the baby will only drink blood! She provides her own and eventually dies. The boy grows up and vows to find his father and kill him for what he did to his mother. They do meet and things go out of control.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOK–you have to ignore logic with this one. At one point a policeman knows itu0026#39;s a vampire who raped the woman and who he is–but how? And a vampire is teaching night school (!!!). And WHY would a vampire rape a woman to begin with? Technically–heu0026#39;s already dead! Push those aside and you can actually enjoy this.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film has a very downbeat, somber tone–as it should. No jokes or winking at the camera. Michael Pataki is very good (and scary) as the vampire father. William Smith has a few good moments as his son. The rest of the acting is just terrible. Still this movie works. Itu0026#39;s well-directed, has an eerie music score by Jaime Mendoza-Nava and some really creepy sequences (the one near the beginning where a woman discovers a vampire in her basement made me jump). A pretty unknown little horror film thatu0026#39;s worth seeking out. I give it a 7.”
