Dracula and Son (Dracula père et fils)

Vampire cinema is sent up in Dracula and Son (Dracula père et fils), a 1976 French horror comedy. Running 94 minutes, it tells a farcical story of a vampire father and son. Édouard Molinaro directed, Alain Poiré produced, and Gaumont stood behind it. Christopher Lee returns to the Count role he played in Hammer's Dracula films, and this was the ninth and last time he played it on film.

Count Dracula and his son Ferdinand are run out of their homeland by angry Transylvanian villagers. The father starts a new life in London and the son in Paris. Their paths cross again when both fall for the same young woman, and a comic rivalry between father and son begins. Lee plays the Count and Bernard Menez plays Ferdinand. The cast includes Marie-Hélène Breillat and her sister Catherine, later a director in her own right, along with Gérard Jugnot, Jean-Claude Dauphin, Raymond Bussières, Bernard Alane, Anna Gaël, Dominique Zardi and Jacques Boudet.

Molinaro wrote the screenplay with Alain Godard. The story is adapted from Claude Klotz's novel Paris Vampire, which shares only a few motifs with Bram Stoker's Dracula. The score is by Vladimir Cosma.