by Tommy Hayfield

Created on: March 12, 2010

"Dracula's Dog" also was released as "Zoltan, Hound of Dracula."  The former title was the one I saw it with.  As an offshoot of the tale of Count Dracula this is a peculiar one but Dracula-themed movies always have fans even though the famous Count isn't the star in this instance and doesn't make an appearance. 

Plot 

The story starts with a Russian road crew blasting while working on building a new road and they happen upon a crypt revealed by the dynamite.  In the crypt there are coffins which tumble from a hill later that night when an earthquake eerily strikes the spot.  The guard who is at the site that night sees the coffin and true to good horror movie etiquette obligingly opens it and finds a  dog with a stake in its heart.  He of course removes it and the hound or Doberman comes to life.  The dog then proceeds to open the coffin of its owner right next to him and the dog removes the stake in his heart as well.  The stakes mean only one thing to Dracula aficionados- the dog and the man are both vampires.  The dog was the culprit in turning its owner into a vampire some 200 years ago but they're a team now as vampire fans know so they will have to team up to cause some mayhem and loosen some arteries. 

True to the travelling nature of vampires these two-the dog or hound and the owner who was formerly an innkeeper-ship themselves to the land of opportunity-America.  They arrive by standard-vampire tactics.  Of course that means they were shipped in boxes in this instance by boat.  They run into the only living descendant of Count Dracula in- America a man named Mike Drake.  I heard  him called Mike Dracula in the movie but we can call him Drake. 

As Mike Drake and his family are camping they run into Zoltan, the Hound of Dracula and his owner/vampire.  They begin to ponder the mysterious death of a dog.  Soon more dogs are victimized and the dog of Dracula is of course the culprit.  

Tag line: 

Man's best friend is now man's worst friend... 

Watch the movie yourself to experience the devilish hound dog and see how it turns out. 

Cast 

•Michael Pataki plays Michael Drake 

•Reggie Nalder plays Veidt Smith, the innkeeper 

•A Doberman Pinscher plays Zoltan 

Running time:  90 minutes

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