The Dracula Business

This fabulously bonkers documentary was made in 1974 by the BBC for their "Tuesday Documentary' strand and follows the entertainingly pompous Daniel Farson, the great nephew of Bram Stoker, as he takes us on a rambling examination of the impact of his great uncle's creation.

Farson indulges in a roaming exploration of the various ways Stoker's story has been monetised from Dracula ice lollies and Hammer Studios via naked bisexual Vampyres and school teachers on Romanian package tours through Denholm Elliot and homicidal divorcee fantasists to two bonkers exorcising priests and a wonderfully straight talking Benedictine monk.

With the exception of the lolly buying schoolkids and the Highgate Cemetery keeper most everyone here is fantastically and almost comedically posh and the documentary wanders completely off the point about three quarters of the way through and never finds it's way back but it's great fun and a real time capsule brimming with unlikely treasure like the footage of the London bookshop with it's spinners full of paperback treasures.

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