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Give this one a miss.
This movie is not only a very bad movie, with awful actors --or presumed actors--, a bored direction and a story unattractive, it also copies exactly an scene from the excellent "giallio" "Torso", directed by Sergio Martino in 1973 (two years before), one of the most celebrated psycho-thrillers of Italian cinema and a cult-movie around the world.
In "La Sanguinusa conduce la danza", the director replays the bed scene between the black girl and the white girl, with an peeping-tom watching from a window of the bedroom.
Naturally, the scene in Rizzo's movie is ridiculous and inferior to the softness and charming in Martino's film.
To put another black girl, another white girl and another peeping-tom replaying the scene is simply the most appropriate way of prove that Rizzo's movie has no ideas, no originality, no taste, and nothing at all.
I think that such things are an offense to spectator.
La Sanguisuga Conduce la Danza, or The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance as I believe is it's common English title, is set on 'Ireland' in '1902' where the mysterious Count Richard Marnack (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) invites soon-to-be out of work theatre actress Evelyn (Patrizia Webley as Patrizia De Rossi) & three more of her fellow soon-to-be out of work actress friends Cora (Krista Nell), Penny (Lidia Olizzi) & Rosalind (Marzia Damon as Caterina Chiani) to his castle situated on a small island just off the coast.
At first Evelyn is reluctant but is persuaded when it is agreed stage hand Samuel (Leo Valeriano) goes along as well.
Once there Count Marnack tells his guests that his Father & Grandfather both cut the heads off their cheating wives using a ceremonial knife & there's a feeling of unease when it turns out that Evelyn looks EXACTLY the same as the current Count's wife who ran away not too long ago...
Along with having to worry about weirdo servants it turns out that someone wants to use the knife themselves to chop a few heads off...
This Italian production was written & directed by Alfredo Rizzo & is total, complete & utter crap from start to finish.
First things first lets start the criticism with the title The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance, lets examine that title because when I do I feel somewhat cheated that there aren't any Vampires or any form of bloodsucking whatsoever, no-one 'leads' anything at anytime & there most certainly isn't any dance or dancing so don't expect any of these things.
What you should expect though is a tedious, dull, boring pointless little 'giallo' that takes over an hour before anyone is killed & any sort of murder mystery starts to take shape, the first hour of La Sanguisuga Conduce la Danza is as plot less & uninteresting as anything out there.
The best way to imagine it is to think of the most boring soft-core porn film you've ever seen, then cut most of the soft-core porn out & that just leaves bad actors, bad dubbing, bad dialogue, a tiny bit of soft-core sex & lesbianism & absolutely nothing else.
Yep, it really is that bad.
The mystery elements are crap, people do illogical things for no apparent reason & the overly complicated 'twist' ending is as bad as the rest of it, The Sixth Sense (1999) this ain't!
Director Rozzi does an OK job & La Sanguisga Conduce la Danza actually has a nice look & feel to it despite it's obvious low budget, I mean there are scenes where he shows a 'storm' raging outside the castle however the stock footage used is in black & white!
So the film jumps from bright colour to black & white whenever it cuts to the storm & back to colour again!
There is one absolutely hilarious scene where a maid & her friend discuss her breasts & she lets her friend feel them who is then full of compliments, this scene is so funny & just so unnatural that it's priceless & easily the films best moment even if a bad 70's porno would be embarrassed by the dialogue!
There is minimal nudity & the sex/lesbian scenes are very tame.
Forget about any blood or gore as there isn't any apart from a decapitated head.
Technically the films pretty good, the period setting & production design are actually quite impressive although it's not massive in scope it does the job effectively enough.
The film has a nice sense of colour & the cinematography is fine.
The film is dubbed so it's hard to give an opinion on the original performances but the voice actors are terrible & the dialogue is even worse than usual.
La Sanguisuga Conduce la Danza is a terrible film, it makes no sense, it has virtually no story for over an hour, it has possibly the most misleading title ever & is really dull & boring with a confused stupid 'twist' ending.
As far as Euro horror fans go there are plenty of much better films than this so please don't waste your time, as for anyone else this is definitely one to avoid.
Trivia Note: the notorious (& banned in the UK) Nazi exploitation/horror film Horrifying Experiments of the S.S Last Days (1977) AKA SS Hell Camp & The Beast in Heat was directed by Luigi Batzella & he has a fairly substantial role as a police detective in La Sanguisuga Conduce la Danza.
The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance - what a laughable title, it's so utterly misleading.
It's not surprising that the film-makers try and mislead us though because this is one terrible movie.
The story basically involves a murder mystery in a castle on a remote island.
Very little happens in this film.
And when something does wake the viewer from his stupor, it invariably is unintentional comedy in the form of atrocious dialogue delivered by a hopeless group of voice-artists.
These guys are so bad they make the actors they deliver voices for appear like a group of remedial-level morons.
It really is hard to determine how bad the acting is when you have dubbing this abysmal.
But the voice-artists cannot be blamed for the script.
It's a travesty.
Unintentionally funny at best, pathetic at worst.
The story in general is, to say the least, uneven.
The women characters are particularly idiotic;
the men are either creepy or tedious.
The whole enterprise smacks of pure exploitation of the audience.
It doesn't remotely deliver what it promises and even when the murders (finally) start happening, they all occur off screen.
All we get is a few half-hearted severed head shots.
A few people have said that this movie is a giallo.
I cannot agree less with this opinion.
Anyone who enjoys Italian thrillers should give this movie a wide berth as there is nothing remotely thrilling about it.
It's basically a soft-core porn film with a horror angle.
But it's not very erotic either.
I can't recommend this to anyone.
The Horror Channel plays nothing but erotic soft porn Gothic flicks each night from 10pm till about 4 in the morning, but their 'scare' factor is very limited, if one exists at all.
In fact I am sure I will find a multi-million pound lottery win more scary than anything this channel has to offer.
The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance deserves special mention because it is I feel, the undisputed low of a channel full of lows.
I cannot even begin to tell you how bad this film is, but for the purpose of completing the minimum 10 lines demanded by this site, I will at least give it a go.
Firstly the title is misleading and bears no resemblance to the action on the screen.
In fact the film might as well have been called 'Toothbrush' or 'Wallpaper' for all it has to do with the plot.
At least they used toothbrushes...
at least they had wallpaper.
There are no bloodsuckers for miles around and whats even worse there are no dances, not one.
I'm sure they were making two different films by mistake here.
A more suitable title would have been, 'Horny Italian Count Leads Five People to a Scary Castle and Bores us Silly for Ninety Minutes.'
Yes that fits better.
The acting is terrible and and the dubbing appalling, and that guy who plays Seymour was almost as wooden in his walk as he was in his character....
abysmal.
The only saving graces of this film are a small but slightly interesting lesbian sex scene, two small and very interesting heterosexual sex scenes, and the added attraction in that every single female character gets her kit off.
Bonus.
Otherwise steer a wide birth away from this one.
No vampires, no dancing, no scenes of a brutal or gruesome nature and no way on Gods earth I will ever, ever, ever watch this one again.
No word of a lie, this film could put you off motion pictures for life.
I saw this movie when i was much younger and i thought it was funny.
I saw it again last week, and you can guess the result.
Some funny parts in it, very few and too long.
The beginning is the only thing that is funny if you ask me.
If you want a total b-movie this is a good pick, but don't expect too much from aliens dwarf size
This is a really dumb movie.
It could be fun with the cool looking aliens and the country setting, but it just isn't.
Some aliens hear the broadcast of War of the Worlds when a small country radio station plays it on Halloween.
They come to Earth to kill humans, but instead of killing, they make people their slaves and act goofy.
The front cover of the film shows these aliens riding surfboards in space...
not really what they do.
These aren't party aliens, they are stupid cartoonish idiots with annoying high pitched modulated voices.
The alien with the most tolerable voice also happens to be the Jack Nicholson rip-off alien who always wears his sunglasses.
Other than the aliens, the acting is terrible.
The writing is obviously meant for children, because every character is written like a kid.
This is a dumb movie, that only children will appreciate, maybe.
My rating: 1/2 out of ****.
100 mins.
PG for mild language.
Imagine you're a high-school boy, in the back of a dark, uncrowded theater with your girlfriend.
How bad would a movie have to be, in order that you would feel compelled to leave the theater and head home before it ended?
This movie is that bad.
Really.
Movies often become so bad that they're good;
this movie is beyond that stage of bad-ness.
It is painfully bad.
Horribly, terribly, crime-against-humanity bad.
This was an incredibly stupid movie.
It was possibly the worst movie I've ever had the displeasure of sitting through.
I cannot fathom how it ranks a rating of 5 or 6.............
Sloppily directed, witless comedy that supposedly spoofs the "classic" 50s "alien invasion" films, but really is no better than them, except of course in the purely technical department (good makeup effects).
And any spoof that is worse than its target is doomed to fail ("Casino Royale", "Our Man Flint" are worse than almost any James Bond movie).

Give this one a miss.

This movie is not only a very bad movie, with awful actors --or presumed actors--, a bored direction and a story unattractive, it also copies exactly an scene from the excellent "giallio" "Torso", directed by Sergio Martino in 1973 (two years before), one of the most celebrated psycho-thrillers of Italian cinema and a cult-movie around the world.

In "La Sanguinusa conduce la danza", the director replays the bed scene between the black girl and the white girl, with an peeping-tom watching from a window of the bedroom.

Naturally, the scene in Rizzo's movie is ridiculous and inferior to the softness and charming in Martino's film.

To put another black girl, another white girl and another peeping-tom replaying the scene is simply the most appropriate way of prove that Rizzo's movie has no ideas, no originality, no taste, and nothing at all.

I think that such things are an offense to spectator.

La Sanguisuga Conduce la Danza, or The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance as I believe is it's common English title, is set on 'Ireland' in '1902' where the mysterious Count Richard Marnack (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) invites soon-to-be out of work theatre actress Evelyn (Patrizia Webley as Patrizia De Rossi) & three more of her fellow soon-to-be out of work actress friends Cora (Krista Nell), Penny (Lidia Olizzi) & Rosalind (Marzia Damon as Caterina Chiani) to his castle situated on a small island just off the coast.

At first Evelyn is reluctant but is persuaded when it is agreed stage hand Samuel (Leo Valeriano) goes along as well.

Once there Count Marnack tells his guests that his Father & Grandfather both cut the heads off their cheating wives using a ceremonial knife & there's a feeling of unease when it turns out that Evelyn looks EXACTLY the same as the current Count's wife who ran away not too long ago...

Along with having to worry about weirdo servants it turns out that someone wants to use the knife themselves to chop a few heads off...

This Italian production was written & directed by Alfredo Rizzo & is total, complete & utter crap from start to finish.

First things first lets start the criticism with the title The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance, lets examine that title because when I do I feel somewhat cheated that there aren't any Vampires or any form of bloodsucking whatsoever, no-one 'leads' anything at anytime & there most certainly isn't any dance or dancing so don't expect any of these things.

What you should expect though is a tedious, dull, boring pointless little 'giallo' that takes over an hour before anyone is killed & any sort of murder mystery starts to take shape, the first hour of La Sanguisuga Conduce la Danza is as plot less & uninteresting as anything out there.

The best way to imagine it is to think of the most boring soft-core porn film you've ever seen, then cut most of the soft-core porn out & that just leaves bad actors, bad dubbing, bad dialogue, a tiny bit of soft-core sex & lesbianism & absolutely nothing else.

Yep, it really is that bad.

The mystery elements are crap, people do illogical things for no apparent reason & the overly complicated 'twist' ending is as bad as the rest of it, The Sixth Sense (1999) this ain't!

Director Rozzi does an OK job & La Sanguisga Conduce la Danza actually has a nice look & feel to it despite it's obvious low budget, I mean there are scenes where he shows a 'storm' raging outside the castle however the stock footage used is in black & white!

So the film jumps from bright colour to black & white whenever it cuts to the storm & back to colour again!

There is one absolutely hilarious scene where a maid & her friend discuss her breasts & she lets her friend feel them who is then full of compliments, this scene is so funny & just so unnatural that it's priceless & easily the films best moment even if a bad 70's porno would be embarrassed by the dialogue!

There is minimal nudity & the sex/lesbian scenes are very tame.

Forget about any blood or gore as there isn't any apart from a decapitated head.

Technically the films pretty good, the period setting & production design are actually quite impressive although it's not massive in scope it does the job effectively enough.

The film has a nice sense of colour & the cinematography is fine.

The film is dubbed so it's hard to give an opinion on the original performances but the voice actors are terrible & the dialogue is even worse than usual.

La Sanguisuga Conduce la Danza is a terrible film, it makes no sense, it has virtually no story for over an hour, it has possibly the most misleading title ever & is really dull & boring with a confused stupid 'twist' ending.

As far as Euro horror fans go there are plenty of much better films than this so please don't waste your time, as for anyone else this is definitely one to avoid.

Trivia Note: the notorious (& banned in the UK) Nazi exploitation/horror film Horrifying Experiments of the S.S Last Days (1977) AKA SS Hell Camp & The Beast in Heat was directed by Luigi Batzella & he has a fairly substantial role as a police detective in La Sanguisuga Conduce la Danza.

The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance - what a laughable title, it's so utterly misleading.

It's not surprising that the film-makers try and mislead us though because this is one terrible movie.

The story basically involves a murder mystery in a castle on a remote island.

Very little happens in this film.

And when something does wake the viewer from his stupor, it invariably is unintentional comedy in the form of atrocious dialogue delivered by a hopeless group of voice-artists.

These guys are so bad they make the actors they deliver voices for appear like a group of remedial-level morons.

It really is hard to determine how bad the acting is when you have dubbing this abysmal.

But the voice-artists cannot be blamed for the script.

It's a travesty.

Unintentionally funny at best, pathetic at worst.

The story in general is, to say the least, uneven.

The women characters are particularly idiotic;

the men are either creepy or tedious.

The whole enterprise smacks of pure exploitation of the audience.

It doesn't remotely deliver what it promises and even when the murders (finally) start happening, they all occur off screen.

All we get is a few half-hearted severed head shots.

A few people have said that this movie is a giallo.

I cannot agree less with this opinion.

Anyone who enjoys Italian thrillers should give this movie a wide berth as there is nothing remotely thrilling about it.

It's basically a soft-core porn film with a horror angle.

But it's not very erotic either.

I can't recommend this to anyone.

The Horror Channel plays nothing but erotic soft porn Gothic flicks each night from 10pm till about 4 in the morning, but their 'scare' factor is very limited, if one exists at all.

In fact I am sure I will find a multi-million pound lottery win more scary than anything this channel has to offer.

The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance deserves special mention because it is I feel, the undisputed low of a channel full of lows.

I cannot even begin to tell you how bad this film is, but for the purpose of completing the minimum 10 lines demanded by this site, I will at least give it a go.

Firstly the title is misleading and bears no resemblance to the action on the screen.

In fact the film might as well have been called 'Toothbrush' or 'Wallpaper' for all it has to do with the plot.

At least they used toothbrushes...

at least they had wallpaper.

There are no bloodsuckers for miles around and whats even worse there are no dances, not one.

I'm sure they were making two different films by mistake here.

A more suitable title would have been, 'Horny Italian Count Leads Five People to a Scary Castle and Bores us Silly for Ninety Minutes.'

Yes that fits better.

The acting is terrible and and the dubbing appalling, and that guy who plays Seymour was almost as wooden in his walk as he was in his character....

abysmal.

The only saving graces of this film are a small but slightly interesting lesbian sex scene, two small and very interesting heterosexual sex scenes, and the added attraction in that every single female character gets her kit off.

Bonus.

Otherwise steer a wide birth away from this one.

No vampires, no dancing, no scenes of a brutal or gruesome nature and no way on Gods earth I will ever, ever, ever watch this one again.

No word of a lie, this film could put you off motion pictures for life.

I saw this movie when i was much younger and i thought it was funny.

I saw it again last week, and you can guess the result.

Some funny parts in it, very few and too long.

The beginning is the only thing that is funny if you ask me.

If you want a total b-movie this is a good pick, but don't expect too much from aliens dwarf size

This is a really dumb movie.

It could be fun with the cool looking aliens and the country setting, but it just isn't.

Some aliens hear the broadcast of War of the Worlds when a small country radio station plays it on Halloween.

They come to Earth to kill humans, but instead of killing, they make people their slaves and act goofy.

The front cover of the film shows these aliens riding surfboards in space...

not really what they do.

These aren't party aliens, they are stupid cartoonish idiots with annoying high pitched modulated voices.

The alien with the most tolerable voice also happens to be the Jack Nicholson rip-off alien who always wears his sunglasses.

Other than the aliens, the acting is terrible.

The writing is obviously meant for children, because every character is written like a kid.

This is a dumb movie, that only children will appreciate, maybe.

My rating: 1/2 out of ****.

100 mins.

PG for mild language.

Imagine you're a high-school boy, in the back of a dark, uncrowded theater with your girlfriend.

How bad would a movie have to be, in order that you would feel compelled to leave the theater and head home before it ended?

This movie is that bad.

Really.

Movies often become so bad that they're good;

this movie is beyond that stage of bad-ness.

It is painfully bad.

Horribly, terribly, crime-against-humanity bad.

This was an incredibly stupid movie.

It was possibly the worst movie I've ever had the displeasure of sitting through.

I cannot fathom how it ranks a rating of 5 or 6.............

Sloppily directed, witless comedy that supposedly spoofs the "classic" 50s "alien invasion" films, but really is no better than them, except of course in the purely technical department (good makeup effects).

And any spoof that is worse than its target is doomed to fail ("Casino Royale", "Our Man Flint" are worse than almost any James Bond movie).