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DRACULA'S LAST RITES (1980)
Marie (Patricia Lee Hammond) and her husband unwittingly expose a vampire cult at a mortuary after they demand her dead mother's body be delivered to the house for a wake. Problem is the vamps have already put the bite on ol' Grandma and she is expected to get up any minute now. This is one of those regional horror flicks prevalent in the late 70s/early 80s. The film is very low budget (the tops of sets can be seen) and features many other problems (like no Dracula, although I suspect distributor Cannon added that as the on screen title reads LAST RITES), yet it is oddly endearing. I like the desolate country location work (Vineland, New Jersey), the cast is decent and director Domonic Paris seems to have a good eye for his shots. In fact, it reminds me a bit of Don Coscarelli's PHANTASM (this flick also bears a 1979 copyright year) but with vampires running a funeral home