Dracula in the Provinces


Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco ovvero Dracula in Brianza, internationally released as Dracula in the Provinces and Young Dracula, is a 1975 Italian horrorcomedy film directed by Lucio Fulci.

Reluctantly bowing to family pressure, Nicosia employs his loafing brotherinlaw into a menial post at the factory. But he fires him the following day after catching the man asleep on the job, snoring loudly. That evening at a family gathering at his apartment, he is accosted by his ungrateful inlaws who try to shame him into giving the feckless mans his job back. Instead of acquiescing to family practice, he bursts into an escalating tirade of rudeness against the singers figure of his Great Aunt Maria Grazia Spadaro. The old woman finally responds to his cynical remarks by uttering a curse. Nicosia dismisses her at first, that is until the old woman threatens of pour oil onto the floor this heavy duty bit of magical business breaks Nicosias nerve, and he recants in a babbling panic. As Nicosia grovels for the curse to be lifted, and the old woman refuses to do so.A few days later, Nicosia is on a plane to Bucharest, Romania where he expects to attend a business conference. A tall, gaunt, suave man seated nearby introduces himself as Count Dragalescu John Steiner, and after some small talk, he invites the troubled industrialist to visit him at his castle while in the region. Upon arriving at the hotel, Nicosia discovers that the conference has been postponed, leaving him stranded at the hotel for the entire weekend. Another businessman, named Meniconi Franco Nebbia, tells him that there are no prostitutes to be had in the region, and that he has failed to seduce any of the local women, even after buying sexy lingerie to bribe them. He confides to Nicosia that he has taken to wearing the lingerie, brand name Hot Night in Havana himself. Rather the spend the weekend in this wretched hotel, Nicosia decides to call on the Count. ........

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