Bride's Initiation _sitkaman repost.txt
This was the 509th post made to abdec. It was posted by Lute76 on June 15, 2005.
I don't have any of the original NFO or cover files that might have posted with this film.
Produced in 1972. English. Run time of 1:08:03. DVD size of 2702.721024 MB.
This is a VCX NTSC DVD.
This DVD includes trailers for "Blue Movies" (aka Nostalgia Blue), "Sky Pies", "Frat House" and "X-Rated Commercials".
Posted January 10, 2016 by sitkaman.
IAFD Entry:
http://www.iafd.com/title.rme/title=Bride%27s+Initiation/year=1972/bride's-initiation.htm
Bride's Initiation (1972)
Minutes:67
Director: Duncan Steward
Distributor: VCX
All-Girl: No
All-Male: No
Compilation: No
Release Date: No Data
Performers
Ambrosia
Carol Connors: MastOnly
Constance Murray
Jack Birch (Credited: Jack O'Brien): NonSex
Lynn Nelson: NonSex
Marc Brock
Melody Marie: NonSex
Steve Morgan
Tony Marshall
Unknown Female 23483-A
Unknown Female 23483-B: NonSex
Scene Breakdowns
Scene 1. Unknown Female 23483-A, Tony Marshall
Scene 2. 2 brun, Tony Marshall
Scene 3. 2 brun, Unknown Female 23483-A
Scene 4. Unknown Female 23483-A, Marc Brock
Scene 5. girl, Marc Brock
Scene 6. brun, Unknown Female 23483-A, Steve Morgan
DVD Rear Cover Description:
In this adult erotic feature, Dracula kidnaps a pair of newlyweds and proceeds to initiate the bride to married life in his own peculiar way. What follows is a deliciously decadent adventure which marries the mysterious world of the dark unerground with the insatiable delights of the sexually deviant. A very wicked world indeed.
IMDb Storyline:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181323/
A just married couple is kidnapped by the Count. The woman is given a tongue bath and the husband is carted off by the chauffeur and given a penis-ectomy. The organ is then presented to a witch who also helps the count. Meanwhile, a detective has been hired by the bride's parents to find them. The count has sex with the kidnapped bride and ejaculates into a cup which is then given to the witch, who mixes it up with some chemicals and gives it to the count to drink. The count then goes out for a ride and spots Carol! He decides that she's the one for him. He sends the chauffeur up to give her a ring, which he later uses the ring to bring her to his lair . The detective has since been captured by the count and "milked of his juices" which is deposited in the same wine glass that the count used before. The witch again mixes the contents into a cocktail for the count. He drinks it then changes his mind about Carol (poor thing!) and runs over to the tied up detective and declares his undying love.
- Written by VCX
IMDb User Review:
Strange mish-mash combining porn with other genres
11 March 2011 | by lor_ (New York, New York)
THE BRIDE'S INITIATION is one of a kind, fortunately. This goof-ball combination of hardcore porn with other genres (comedy, horror, fantasy, bondage) was simply not ready for prime time.
Chief problem for over-achieving director Duncan Stewart is casting Marc Brock in the leading role of Count Dracula. This familiar porn face, usually resembling Eric Bogosian but due to amateurish heavy makeup nearly unrecognizable here, is a ham-bone, and his strenuous overacting does elicit some laughs, but only the unintentional kind.
The mythos for this Count is completely different from those familiar to horror fans. He walks around in the daytime, doesn't bite anyone on the neck, and instead of blood is immortal by virtue of a special potion made out of human sperm. The IMDb synopsis provided by the video company gives away the "comedy" spoiler of the ending twist, which I won't mention here.
I was introduced to this film in a roundabout way: I watched a 23-minute softcore excerpt (called a "featurette" by Something Weird Video) that was a bonus on the DVD for Dracula (The Dirty Old Man). It implied that the project was softcore, but following up by viewing the complete 68-minute VCX issue of the picture one sees it is XXX in content.
The entire bride central plot is omitted from the soft version. Integral film begins with a happy couple of newlyweds, who are shanghaied by their limo chauffeur James (Jack Birch, father of actress Thora Birch) in a very goofy scene wherein the lady is "frozen" by some knockout gas mid-blow job on her groom.
Ordering the kidnapping is the Count, who naturally given film's fantasy premise is more interested in obtaining the groom's sperm than he is in the predictable ravaging of the bride. I assumed that part of this oddball story's inspiration was generated by the medieval practice of the monarch getting first dibs on wedding night with his subjects' newlywed brides, as per the film's title, but this allusion to the count's practices is never made explicit.
With an elementary school play-level makeup job, the count's other assistant is a diminutive, hawk-nosed witch, charged with concocting the sperm-laden potion that keeps the count animated. She also doubles as the sperm-collector, holding a glass to capture each ejaculation generated by the count's set of busty handmaidens, who use hand jobs (naturally) and fellatio to do the trick.
Bondage seems to be director Stewart's not-so-hidden agenda here, as there are other maidens chained to the wall in the count's very low-budget lair, who never get involved in the sexual action but are decoratively nude. Part of the film's charm is the phoniness with which the imprisoned males are tied up by Birch, rendered "helpless" to prevent their being forced to ejaculate.
Stopped at an intersection, the count is smitten by a lovely blonde (porn star Carol Connors, Birch's real-life wife), who he follows home after accidentally bumping into her on purpose on the sidewalk. He later sends James to give her a huge ring as a present, which truly amazes Connors, although in her ad lib dialog she's even more shocked that there's no card accompanying it in the gift-wrapped package.
The count hypnotizes her from afar, and she sleepwalks (in a revealing nightgown, another fantasy/horror genre staple) into a limo for James to take her to the lair. Meanwhile James has knocked out the plodding detective on the case and hogtied him for sperm collection.
This nonsense is yet another example of bait and switch for Connors fans. She became a minor porn deity as the nurse, second lead femme in DEEP THROAT after Linda Lovelace, and made several other porn films, but while continuing to appear in explicit roles later in her career, she was also sometimes cast as marquee bait (notably in the Western SWEET SAVAGE), offering nudity but zero sexual action. The same is true here, even though the plot line strongly suggests to the viewer that she is going to get down.
At times this resembles a real film, micro-budgeted to be sure, but trying for something beyond the usual one-day wonder. But cheap sets, bad makeup and ham acting by Brock kill its potential.
Review on The Bloody Pit Of Horror blog:
http://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2009/07/dracula-and-dirty-old-witch-1976.html
Bride's Initiation, The (1972)
...aka: Dracula and the Dirty Old Witch
Directed by: Duncan Stewart
THE BRIDE'S INITIATION was a 67-minute porno that mixed X-rated sex (though apparently not very much, according to iafd), some light S&M and brain-dead vampire humor. Thankfully for those of us not really wanting to slog through an entire early 70s adult feature (I personally have no problem with doing so if it's something like THE DEVIL IN MISS JONES or THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, but let's face it - those are atypically good for the genre), Something Weird offers the film in a condensed form as an extra on their DRACULA THE DIRTY OLD MAN / GUESS WHAT HAPPENED TO COUNT DRACULA? DVD. The SW version (under the new title DRACULA AND THE DIRTY OLD WITCH), runs just 22-minutes (which is about all I could personally stand) and has all the hardcore sex removed. What remains is unsexy, unfunny and basically boring, but hey, I'm just thankful I got to save 40+ minutes viewing this - so kudos to SW for helping me out there.
Count Dracula (Marc Brock) wakes up nude in his coffin - except for his cape, plastic fangs and one of the worst undead make-up jobs ever seen - and goes to tend to a cheap S&M dungeon set consisting of black walls, a yellow mattress in the middle of the floor and three nude women chained to the wall. A cackling, facially-scarred witch complete with a long, warty nose makes some special "brew" from human, uh, juices, for the vampire to drink. His pock-marked chauffeur named James ("Jack O'Brien"/Jack Birch) helps kidnap a newlywed couple (the woman is raped and the guy is castrated off-screen), as well as a maid and a police detective. Dracula eventually falls in love with a buck-toothed blonde named Miss Richman (Carol Connors), who he thinks can end his eternal suffering. He gives her a magical ring that he uses to hypnotize her and lure her to his lair, and the witch eventually spikes his special potion, which causes the vampire to change his sexual preference. The end.
Most of the cast returned in the adult feature COUSIN BETTY, which was filmed back-to-back with this one. The SW DVD also contains a condensed, non-explicit cut of the John Holmes vehicle SEX AND THE SINGLE VAMPIRE (1970).
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