Release
Filming was completed by November 1972, but Son of Dracula had to wait a year and a half for release. Soon after completion, Starr called in Graham Chapman, who was writing with Douglas Adams at the time and had been working on a proposed Ringo Starr TV special. They, along with Chapman's other regular collaborator, Bernard McKenna, were asked to write a whole new script to be dubbed over the film's lacklustre dialogue, and they recorded an alternative, Pythonesque soundtrack, but the whole idea was then shelved. Later, attempts were made to market the movie, but as Ringo Starr later said, "No one would take it."
Showings over the years have been limited to midnight movies and similar outlets. No official home video release has ever been made, and reviewers such as Leonard Maltin have little positive to say about the film.
It is not known if Son of Dracula will ever come out officially on DVD. Harry Nilsson brought a VHS copy of the film to the 1982 New York Beatlefest convention, to be shown only at a special Friday night party that host Mark Lapidos was giving for the convention guests and vendors. Most party attendees ignored the film. On YouTube, a version in 11 parts is presently being offered. According to journalist Peter Palmiere, Starr said in the late 1980s that he had a copy of the video lying on top of his TV set, but he couldn't bear to look at it.
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