THE DEVIL'S WEDDING NIGHT

The Devil's Wedding Night Movie Review

Twins Karl and Franz Schiller (both Mark Damon) head off to Dracula's Castle in search of a powerful ring, but once there, they find it's in the possession of La Contessa Dolingen de Vries (Rosalba Neri), or Lady Dracula, if you will. Lady Drac has been using the ring to lure young chicks to the castle to kill them (or have them killed) so she can bathe in their blood. Oh yeah, and Lady Dracula's sidekick is Lara the Zombie (Esmeralda Barros), and she's not really a zombie.

"Did I cover everything?"

That's a little bit of the madness we have going on in this 1973 Italian flick. All these individual elements are thrown together to form a plot that is barely coherent. As is the case with many of these older Gothic castle films, the lighting is bad—the darkness combines with the slow pace in a bold challenge for you to actually stay awake for the entire film. Fortunately, the version I watched was from Elvira’s Movie Macabre, so I had her to help keep me going.

Here it is now

I was also surprised to see nudity—lots of nudity--in this movie. I watched this on Tubi, which I am now fairly certain shows the DVD versions of the Elvira’s Movie Macabre collection—I assume the DVD restores the uncut versions of the movies that were originally shown censored on Elvira’s early 1980’s television show. I can’t say for sure Elvira's 1983 airing of this movie was censored, but I know I was surprised to see the naked women here. Anyway, other than the unexpected nudity, there’s not much going for this film, and the maniacal shooting style, psychedelic scenes, and awkward laughter are good examples of why I believe everybody was high in the seventies.

On A Scale Of One To Ten: 3

The Devil's Wedding Night Movie Trailer

(Waring: Lots of the aforementioned nudity is in this trailer)