Draculas Dog
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Director Albert Band Music director Andrew Belling Duration Country United States
Italy | 4.2/10 Genre Horror Screenplay Frank Ray Perilli Writer Frank Ray Perilli Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date United States/Canada
June, 1978 Cast Michael Pataki (Michael Drake / Count Dracula), Jan Shutan (Marla Drake), José Ferrer (Inspector Branco), JoJo D'Amore (Fisherman)Similar movies John Wick , Hotel Transylvania 2 , Dracula Untold , Blade: Trinity , Back to the Future , Dracula Tagline There's More To The Legend Than Meets… The Throat! |
A Romanian vampire-hunter (Jose Ferrer) tracks Draculas servant (Reggie Nalder) to Los Angeles, home of the last of his line (Michael Pataki).

Zoltan, Hound of Dracula (also known as Draculas Dog) is a 1978 horror film starring Michael Pataki and Jose Ferrer, released by Crown International Pictures. It revolves around a dog with the spirit of the vampire Dracula within it.
Russian soldiers accidentally unleash Dracula's servant, as well as his dog, during excavations in Romania. Together they set out for America, to find the last descendent of the great Count.
Plot
A Russian road crew accidentally blasts open a subterranean crypt, and the captain of the road crew, fearing looters and criminals, stations a guard near the site. Late in the night, an earthquake shakes loose one of the coffins, which slides down and lands at the feet of the confused guard. Curious as to what has fallen before him, the guard opens the coffin and discovers the body of a dog, impaled by a stake. He removes the stake, which revives the vampiric hound Zoltan.
After slaying the guard, Zoltan opens another coffin shaken loose from the crypt, this one holding the body of an innkeeper, Nalder, who once owned the crypt. Zoltan removes the stake from the innkeepers chest, reanimating the innkeeper. The movie cuts to a flashback of a village in Russia 200 years prior.
The dog of an innkeeper saves a woman from being bitten by a bat, Dracula in disguise. Furious over losing his meal to a dog, Dracula bites the womans savior, turning the dog into a vampire. Now a vampire, the dog turns on its owner, turning the innkeeper into a vampire as well.
Back in the present, it appears that Dracula has only one surviving descendant, Michael Drake, a mild-mannered psychiatrist, played by Michael Pataki, who decides to take his wife and children (who are, technically, also Draculas descendants) on a vacation in his Winnebago, hoping to spend some quality time with his family out in the national forest.
Still loyal to the Dracula family, the two vampires travel to the United States, shipping themselves via boat to California. Eventually, Zoltan and company find themselves in the same forest as Michael and his family.
Other campers, vacationing with their dogs, discover that their pets are being killed by a strange beast. The deceased animals soon reanimate into vampiric dogs, the minions of Zoltan. Zoltan is killed in the final scene, but a vampire puppy escapes destruction.
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