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What Movie Wednesday: "Billy the Kid vs Dracula" (1966)


This past Wednesday, I brought back an old feature- "What Movie Wednesday".  It went well in my opinion, and I had fun doing the tweet along.

So, here's the review!

Billy the Kid has "retired" and gotten engaged to the daughter of a wealthy rancher.  Soon, however, Billy finds himself in for the fight of his life against the Lord of the Undead... Master of the Children of the Night... DRACULA!  Billy is his fiance's only chance of avoiding a fate worse than death...

This is truly a B-Movie of epic proportions.  As Vance Kotrla (@SciFi_Romance) aptly put it:

The story, the characters, the acting, the camera work... all of it.  Just ALL of it.  The best part was John Carradine (David Carradine's father)... especially his skill at giving us "crazy eyes" like the example below:






See what I mean?  Just fantastic!

Despite it being a highly flawed movie (aka- "HOW did this movie ever get made?" flawed), it was good for a giggle and chortle while I was tweeting along to it.  It's going to sit solidly in "The Ugly"... but I must confess to feeling some guilty pleasure watching and enjoying it.

SPECIAL THANKS!

Big shout-out to the following for voting in the return of "What Movie Wednesday:

Nathan Bosa;
Jason Hewlett (@camethebasement);
David Stewart;
Jason Wiggins.

Also, special shout-out to Vance Kotrla (@Sci-Fi_Romance) for the great quote above!


 The next "What Movie Wednesday" vote will be posted 20 Feb 2019 at just after midnight that morning.  Voting will go until 6:00 pm (Pacific Standard Time), and tweeting will begin at 7:00 pm (PST).  You'll be able to vote either on Twitter, or on our Facebook page!

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