“The Weekender” is our occasional feature where every weekend we hope to
highlight a short film, movie or documentary pertaining to the
Americas.
To commemorate Halloween, we're running the following post originally published on October 31, 2014. The text mostly remains the same but the video below the page break is changed.
What happens when the Cuban musician nephew of Dracula finds a secret
potion that allows vampires to be able to live under the sun's rays?
The answer to this can be seen in the 1985 animated movie ¡Vampiros en La Habana! (Vampires in Havana).
The film provides a satirical look at both capitalism and Communism
when competing factions of vampires - a Chicago mob and a European
cartel - seek to get their claws on the "Vampisol" concoction from
Joseph Amadeus von Dracula. Featuring trumpet playing by the legendary
Arturo Sandoval, ¡Vampiros is not your usual scary Halloween flick but is instead a funny spoof of horror and gangster films.
An excerpt from ¡Vampiros can be seen below. (Note that the movie has some adult themes; hence, we're classifying it as Not Safe For Work).
Online Source - imdb.com
YouTube Source - delamilonga
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