Villian(s)  Vampires

Actor(s):  David Niven, Teresa Graves, Jennie Linden, Nicky Henson

Brief Description  Old Dracula (originally released in the UK as Vampira) is a 1974 British comedy-horror film directed by Clive Donner and written by Jeremy Lloyd. The film stars academy-award winner David Niven as an aging Count Dracula and Teresa Graves as his vampire bride, Countess Vampira. The film is a lighthearted, eccentric parody of classic vampire tropes heavily steeped in 1970s pop culture, sexual liberation, and Blaxploitation-era cinema trends. When it was distributed in the United States in 1975 by American International Pictures (AIP), the title was changed to Old Dracula to capitalize on the massive box-office success of Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein.

Plot:
Because of his advanced age and a dwindling supply of local victims, Count Dracula is forced to open his historic Transylvanian castle to commercial tourist groups to survive. His ultimate goal, however, is much more personal: his beloved bride, Vampira, has been in a deep, decades-long hibernation coma. To revive her, he needs to harvest a very rare, specific combination of blood types. Dracula hits the jackpot when a group of beautiful Playboy Playmates books an overnight tour at his castle. He successfully extracts blood samples from the women and mixes them together to perform a blood transfusion on Vampira. The procedure works, and Vampira wakes up—but because one of the high-profile donors was Black, the transfusion alters Vampira’s biology, transforming her skin from white to Black. Dracula refuses to accept that his long-lost love has permanently changed appearance, assuming it was a simple blood sample mix-up.

Desperate to reverse the transformation, Dracula, Vampira, and his loyal butler Maltravers track the remaining Playboy models to London’s hip West End. Using psychic mind-control on a male model named Marc Williams (Nicky Henson), Dracula orchestrates private meetings with white women to secure new, "correct" blood samples. While navigating 1974 London, the film leans into a fish-out-of-water dynamic as the old-fashioned, aristocratic vampires experience modern 1970s culture. Ultimately, Dracula's attempts to change Vampira back fail. During a chaotic final confrontation, Vampira bites Dracula. Instead of curing her, the bite passes the trait onto him, transforming Dracula's skin Black as well. Realizing they are stuck this way, the vampire couple chooses to embrace the change and hilariously flees the country, catching a flight to Rio de Janeiro to celebrate Carnival.