A boorish, snobish toothpaste factory owner, Constantino Nicosia, gives his wife and everyone a hard time having let success and wealth go to his head. But after the superticous Nicosia has an encounter with an elderly gypsy aunt, and a business trip to Romania results in another encounter with a suave vampire, named Count Dragalescu, Nicosia returns with blood-sucking like qualities which makes him re-examine his life and existence.
Acting
Lando Buzzanca's magnificently insufferable rich buffoon
Direction
Fulci's unexpected satirical swing before returning to gore
Costume
1970s Milanese industrialist chic meets vampire capes
Director
Lucio Fulci
Lando Buzzanca
Costante Nicosia
Rossano Brazzi
dottor Paluzzi
Sylva Koscina
Mariù
Moira Orfei
Bestia Assatanata
Christa Linder
Liù Pederzoli
John Steiner
Count Dragulescu
Francesca Romana Coluzzi
Wanda Torsello
Valentina Cortese
Olghina Franchetti
Ciccio Ingrassia
Salvatore, the Wizard of Noto
Grazia Di Marzà
Carmela Cannata
Antonio Allocca
Peppino
Michele Cimarosa
Salvatore Cannata
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fulci made this between his giallo period and his infamous 'Gates of Hell' trilogy, desperately trying to prove he could do comedy. Italian audiences disagreed; it flopped.
The 'Brianza' region was shorthand for nouveau riche industrial wealth in 1970s Italy—Nicosia embodies the arrogant self-made man that leftist filmmakers loved to skewer.
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