The film isn’t as good as its wonderfully crappy title. The idea of a vampire out west is not a bad one at all, John Carradine is always fun and some of the older support actors are fine. The plot has Dracula pretend to be a man he has killed in order to get close to a beautiful woman he wants to seduce – that’s not a bad idea, it’s got a three act structure and all that. Billy the Kid is the hero (he’s reformed apparently) - it might have been better had evil Billy gone up against Drac. It is a bit too cheap and crummy, with lacklustre staging and some irritating bits: what’s the deal with the bat flying off at the end even though Drac’s had a stake through the heart? And do rocks in the head work where bullets can’t? And doesn’t he walk around in daylight?
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