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3 unusual facts about Blood of Dracula


Blood of Dracula's Castle

Count Dracula (Alexander D'Arcy) and his vampire wife (Paula Raymond), hiding behind the pseudonyms of Count and Countess Townsend, lure girls to their castle in the Arizona desert to be drained of blood by their butler George (John Carradine), who then mixes real bloody marys for the couple.

Ostensibly located in Arizona, the film was actually shot at Shea's Castle, near Lancaster, California.

Shea's Castle

It has been a location for 1967's Blood of Dracula's Castle and TV shows such as Air Wolf, Bat Masterson, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry O, The Rat Patrol, and Starsky & Hutch.


Herman Cohen

Cohen also wrote the stories and/or screenplays for at least nine films, co-writing with pal Aben Kandel and sometimes using one pseudonym – either "Ralph Thornton" or "Kenneth Langtry" – between them (Kandel also wrote solo for Cohen on Kid Monk Baroni and, using the Thornton moniker, on Blood of Dracula).


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