This whole experience came about when MARK WALKER & MICHAEL BOYD showed me an 8mm film they had made in 1967 and based on the Dracula story and films from the 1930's and 40's. It was amateur to say the least ( they were 9 years old then) but it was pretty good and very creative visually. Mark was a born filmmaker and I proposed to them that we make our own serious Dracula movie. Over the next year Mark and Mike and I worked on ideas for a script...all very grand and ultimately way beyond our capabilities budget-wise. but we also created some gags and funny lines to spoof the whole genre and those took form as a kind of "Sequel" to the story which I wrote as a screenplay ( my first) and we decided that we just might be able to produce that as a film....
The result after more than a year of filming...re-filming...and creating a reel to reel tape soundtrack...
was DRACULA MADE ME DO IT !
Above is the 16 year old ME applying wet paper towels and Karo syrup to poor MICHAEL BOYD as the "decayed" Dracula for DRACULA MADE ME DO IT ! and the finished product as it appeared in the final film. We did this makeup only once and filmed all the scenes requiring it in one long saturday afternoon ( the makeup itself took a couple of hours to do)....
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