I think Grave of the Vampire is the kind of movie that played at third tier movie houses in the early seventies as part of a double or triple bill. It's pretty bad.
Starting in the fifties, a college student is killed and his girl friend is raped by a vampire.
Yeah.
Nine months later, she gives birth to a boy, a baby needing blood, not milk for nourishment.
Really.
He grows up to be a student of folklore, tracking down his father on college campuses where he'd prey upon the students in the guise of an instructor.
The son manages to get a class with his father, getting involved with two female students- one romantically fixated on the vampire, the other a dead ringer for the vampire's long dead wife.
It's... more than pretty bad, actually.
One odd bit, quite startling to me considering when the movie was made- when the girl finds out she's pregnant, her doctor tells her that it's not a baby, but a parasite, and that she should get an abortion. Pretty daring for something made not a year after Roe v Wade.
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