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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! We've teamed up with LonelyChaser Fansubs to bring you a fully subtitled, 4K 16mm scan of the Dracula movie from Marvel and Toei Animation!
In the very first animated movie ever based on a Marvel comic, Count Dracula, lord of vampires and the sovereign of the damned, steals away a bride intended for Lucifer. Not only does this anger his dark creator but also a satanic cult and his fellow vampires. He finds that the sins of his past will not allow him to live a normal, mortal life. Events become complicated when he comes under attack from all sides, including his vampire hunting great-grandson and the children of others he murdered long ago.
This 16mm film was acquired by MartyMcFlies of LonelyChaser, and was scanned in 4K. It was also color corrected and touched up by us. The first reel unfortunately ended up being very moldy, reproduced as a blue-ish pattern over the film, and this could not be fixed, along with some heavy scratches running down the film in the first reel. Software is not capable of digitally restoring these issues without massive time-consuming frame by frame work, which we do not have the time, manpower, or budget for. The audio was sourced from the optical sound track on the film itself. This is likely the best this film will ever look, as neither Marvel nor Toei have seemingly any interest in acknowledging its existence.
This thing... of all the Dracula things I've seen, and I've seen a fair few in my time, that... was certainly one of them. It is, apparently, based on The Tomb of Dracula comic books, in which Blade made his first appearance. Blade was not in the above movie, though, sadly.
I downloaded the torrent version found in the pinned comment under the above embedded Youtube video, which has both the Japanese and English dub versions. I watched the English dub. Might also watch the Japanese version later, at some point.
I first learned of this movie when I saw a couple of parody dubs of it the other day (which I found via Team Four Star's Dragon Ball Z Abridged Creator Commentary, where they happened to mention the "Piccolo Lays A Beating" parody, made by the same guy [who was, apparently, also the second voice of Kami in DBZA itself, among several other voices]).
