Batman Dracula Explained

Batman Dracula
Director:	Andy Warhol
Producer:	Andy Warhol
Starring:	Naomi Levine Gerard Malanga Taylor Mead Jack Smith Sam Green
Runtime:	120 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	English

Batman Dracula is a 1964 black and white American superhero fan film produced and directed by Andy Warhol without the permission of DC Comics, who owns the character Batman.

Production background

The film was screened only at Warhol's art exhibits. A fan of the Batman comic series, Warhol made the film as an homage. Jack Smith appeared as both Batman and his nemesis, Count Dracula.^[1]

The film was thought to be lost until scenes from it were shown at some length in the documentary Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2006).

Cast

• Tally Brown as Florence, Granddaughter of Old Woman and Old Man
• Beverly Grant as Rose
• Sam Green
• Dorothy Dean as Doris
• Bob Heide
• Baby Jane Holzer as Rebecca, Sister of Sydney and Titus
• Sally Kirkland
• Ron Link
• Naomi Levine as Elizabeth, Daughter of Gaston
• Gerard Malanga
• Mario Montez
• Billy Name
• Taylor Mead
• Ivy Nicholson as Roxanne
• Jack Smith as Batman/Dracula
• Andy Warhol
• Gregory Battcock
• David Bourdon

Production

The project was filmed on the beaches of Long Island and on the roofs of New York City.

See also

• List of American films of 1964
• Andy Warhol filmography
• Batman Fights Dracula, a 1967 Filipino film
• Batman & Dracula trilogy

Notes and References

1. Book: Douglas Crimp. "Our kind of movie" : the films of Andy Warhol. 2012. MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 978-0-262-01729-9. 115. 16 June 2014. It might also have been Smith's greatest film performance, but sadly we may never know, because Warhol left the film in the can, unassembled and unedited..