Dracula's Widow

3/2/2026

**_Undead Vanessa arrives in a crate at a House of Wax in Hollywood_** This was the debut movie helmed by Christopher Coppola, the older brother of Nicolas Cage and nephew of Francis Ford Coppola. It comes in the comic booky tradition of colorful vampire flicks like “Count Yorga, Vampire” and “The Night Stalker,” as well as the fourth episode of the ensuing Kolchak series, “The Vampire.” The depiction of the vampire bat isn’t much better than the bat in “Suspiria” that presumably enters a room to flush the toilet. “Gargoyle: Wings of Darkness” (2004) was obviously influenced by it because it likewise throws in a satanic ritual with quasi-altar sacrifice and requisite scantily clad female. I liked how Vanessa shows the posers what real evil is, to say the least. Speaking of females