Vampires in Havana
Alternate Title: Vampiros en las Habana
Directed by: Juan Padron
year: 1985 69 minutes
This critically acclaimed, hilarious spoof of horror and gangster movies, presented in an outrageously caricatured bawdy style features professor Von Dracula who travels from Transylvania to Cuba where he invents Vampisol, a potion allowing vampires to survive sunlight. When he announces that he will donate the formula to Vampires world-wide, the Chicago Vampire Mafia tries to steal it. The zany action is set to hot Latin jazz soundtrack by Arturo Sandoval.
- Genres:
- Animation / Cel & Hand-Drawn
- Comedy / Parody
- Horror / Creature Feature / Vampire
- International / Americas / Caribbean / Cuban
- Crime / Gangster
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