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Vampires in Havana

Original title: ¡Vampiros en La Habana!
  • 1985
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 20m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
1.5K
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Vampires in Havana (1985)
Adult AnimationDark ComedyVampire HorrorAnimationComedyHorrorRomance

A vampire family from Cuba is preparing for a showdown between the USA vampires and the Eastern European vampires. But with the aid of a scientist, they need a type of vaccination where they... Read allA vampire family from Cuba is preparing for a showdown between the USA vampires and the Eastern European vampires. But with the aid of a scientist, they need a type of vaccination where they can live in daylight.A vampire family from Cuba is preparing for a showdown between the USA vampires and the Eastern European vampires. But with the aid of a scientist, they need a type of vaccination where they can live in daylight.

  • Director
    • Juan Padrón
  • Writers
    • Ernesto Padrón
    • Juan Padrón
  • Stars
    • Frank González
    • Manuel Marín
    • Irela Bravo
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    • Director
      • Juan Padrón
    • Writers
      • Ernesto Padrón
      • Juan Padrón
    • Stars
      • Frank González
      • Manuel Marín
      • Irela Bravo
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    Frank González
    • Pepito
    • (voice)
    • …
    Manuel Marín
    • Johnny Terrori
    • (voice)
    • …
    Irela Bravo
    • Lola
    • (voice)
    Carlos Gonzalez
    • Tio Werner Amadeus Von Dracula
    • (voice)
    Mirella Guillot
      Carmen Solar
        Juan Padrón
          Margarita Aguero
          • Actress in Vampire Movie
          Friedrich W. Bauschulte
          • Onkel
          • (German version)
          • (voice)
          Friedrich G. Beckhaus
          Friedrich G. Beckhaus
            Detlef Bierstedt
            • Pepe
            • (German version)
            • (voice)
            Sonja Deutsch
              Joseline Gassen
              • Gattin
              • (German version)
              • (voice)
              Helmut Gauß
                Manfred Grote
                  Hans-Joachim Grubel
                    Hans W. Hamacher
                    • Capone
                    • (German version)
                    • (voice)
                    Wilfried Herbst
                    • Italianer
                    • (German version)
                    • (voice)
                    • Director
                      • Juan Padrón
                    • Writers
                      • Ernesto Padrón
                      • Juan Padrón
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                    lee_eisenberg

                    blood-drinkers go conga

                    Juan Padrón's "¡Vampiros en La Habana!" ("Vampires in Havana" in English) has to be one of the funniest animated features that I've ever seen. It's a really clever mixture of horror with political satire. The movie focuses on Joseph, a trumpet player in 1930s Havana who is participating in a plot to overthrow Gerardo Machado, the country's dictator. However, he doesn't know that he's a vampire, the grandson of Count Dracula. His father developed an anti-sun formula that allows the creatures of the night to walk around during the day. But the Chicago mafia and a group of vampire businessmen want to get their hands on the formula, each side wanting to use it for their own ends.

                    You have to know some about Cuba's history to fully understand the plot. But aside from that, it's hilarious to hear the mafiosi speak Spanish with flat American accents. Not to mention that we get to hear some great music.

                    OK, so maybe we could be a little cynical and note that the movie serves as propaganda: the villains are corporations, the mafia and even a racist Englishman (he has nothing but scorn for anyone who isn't 100% white). So what? It's a really funny movie! The excess of vampires in pop culture during the past few years belies the really witty movies about blood-suckers out there. Definitely one that you're sure to like.
                    6gavin6942

                    An Interesting Cartoon About Vampires and Organized Crime

                    A vampire family from Cuba is preparing for a showdown between the American vampires and the Eastern European vampires. But with the aid of a scientist, they need a type of vaccination where they can live in daylight.

                    I thought the only film about vampires and organized crime was "Innocent Blood" (1992). Turns out that the Spaniards beat the Americans to the punch by a few years. Of course, beyond that, the films have absolutely nothing in common.

                    Although my Spanish is very spotty, I still enjoyed this film. It was clever, a bit funny, and not at all as cheesy as I might have expected. The animation is not going to impress anyone, but sometimes that is not important. I am curious about the sequel...
                    10mathfreak87

                    Good Movie

                    Vampiros en la Habana is a film directed by Juan Padron. Padron was born on January 29th, 1947 in Matanzas, Cuba. He studied art history in the University of Havana, and started working as a photographer for FAR (Fuerzas Aereas Revolucionarias). He also worked with the worldwide known Argentinean writer Quino. But it wasn't until 1985 that he made his most famous work: Vampires in Havana. This movie entails a story of vampires caught up in the Cuban revolution of the 1930's. Von Dracula, a mad scientist residing in Havana, Cuba, found a cure for vampires and enabled them to be under the sunlight with no worries of diminishing into the atmosphere. This new formula was later called Vampisol. When vampire leaders from Europe, with primary location in Düsseldorf, heard the news, they wanted to get a hold of the formula so they could sell it and make profit out of it, as opposed to Von Dracula, who wanted to announce how to make the drink, free of charge, through radio vampire. Vampires from United States, with Johnny Terrori as leader, had a business of making underground beaches for vampires all over the United States, and wanted to extend their empire to Düsseldorf. The problem laid in the fact that Johnny Terrori could not let vampires from Europe to get a hold of the formula, or else he and his group would go bankrupt. Von Dracula's nephew Joseph, also known as Pepito (the movie's protagonist), was found fighting in the battle between vampires from Europe and United States. He was also complotting against the governmental procedures of General Machado. Pepito's heart belonged to Lola's hands, who helped Pepito and his friends by spying inside the house of the Captain, which worked for General Machado and made sure that everything went with the flow of democracy. This movie reflects, in specific scenes, how Padron felt about the democratic oppression on the Cuban citizens from the government. By watching the movie, it can be deduced that Padron was against the tyranny and for the revolution. He showed his biased preference over political ideas. Throughout the film, cops and, basically anything that has to do with the government, is depicted as negative. The vulgarity of the Captain; he, as a leader, should have portrayed himself as an educated individual who respects everyone. On the other hand, the Captain treated his subordinates like the inside of an empty cup; the detective who was spying for him (the little guy with the mustache), was blamed by the Captain to have been plotting against democracy along with Pepito, when the only thing he did was work diligently on catching revolutionists. When the Captain caught his wife cheating on him with Pepito, his first reaction was to hit her and tell her that he hated her, and one should never lay a finger on a woman no matter what. Another scene in the movie, was at the bar, after Pepito and his friends had stolen the papers from the Captain's house. The Captain' wife smiled at him and he put his arm up as if he was going to hit her. Padron also showed a really strong comment about the way he felt towards the cops back then; he shows a scene where Pepito comes out of the bar and asks a cop on a motorcycle to get up and leave and, without hesitation, the cop runs scared from him saying "arriba la revolucion, abajo con el tirano." I believe that Padron tried to emphasize that even Machado's own military and cops were tired of him and were also scared for their life. Padron's concept of revolution against Machado was also represented with Pepito's friends. Even though their names are not revealed throughout the whole movie, they play a very important part in the movie, literally and symbolically. Literally, they aid Pepito by protecting him from the police and by taking care of Lola; they also are the ones that planned the robbery of the safe. Within the movie, they are just Pepito's friends, but symbolically they represent something far deeper. The three friends come from the three socio-economic levels: lower, middle and high class. I think Padron emphasized the fact that everyone in the country, not just the poor, was against democracy.

                    Dario Zambrano
                    10ECLIPSE1977

                    The best animated movie I've ever seen in my life!

                    I watched "¡Vampiros En La Habana!" by Juan Padrón when I was eight years old. This movie was something different from the Disney cartoons I used to watch. There was sex, good music, violence, and plenty of humor. A plot consisting in a mixture of vampires and mafia could be strange, but it worked perfectly well. This is the type of movie that you can hate it or love it! Yesterday Juan Padrón (the director) presented the second part: "¡Más Vampiros En La Habana!" in a theater in Madrid (Spain). I had great expectations with this movie. I couldn't resist comparing both of them, and in my opinion I think that the first part was less dynamic but much more funny. I'm looking forward to watching "Fritz The Cat" and comment it.
                    3BA_Harrison

                    I havana clue why this is rated so highly.

                    Trumpet playing revolutionary Pepito (Frank González) learns from his scientist uncle that he is a vampire and that he owes his ability to walk around during daylight hours to a special formula - one that two warring vampire mafia clans would do anything to get their hands on.

                    The tagline for Vampires in Havana compares the film to Ralph Bakshi's Fritz the Cat (1972) and it's easy to see why: both films feature subversive satire, social commentary and sexual scenarios, and the characters and animation style for Vampires in Havana are very much in the style of Bakshi. And like Fritz, Vampires left me distinctly unimpressed.

                    There are admittedly some fun ideas in this crazy Cuban cartoon - vampire nightclubs where they drink from unwilling blood donors, guns that fire stakes, vampire dogs - but the humour is so weak and the animation is so bad (crudely drawn and dated), that even at just over an hour long, the film is a chore to sit through.

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                      The film poster still sells well to tourists in Havana in 2016.
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                      Pepito: Bullets can't kill vampires.

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                    • Release date
                      • July 17, 1985 (Cuba)
                    • Countries of origin
                      • Cuba
                      • Spain
                      • West Germany
                    • Languages
                      • Spanish
                      • English
                    • Also known as
                      • Krieg der Vampire
                    • Production companies
                      • Manfred Durniok Produktion für Film und Fernsehen
                      • Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos (ICAIC)
                      • Radio Televisión Española (RTVE)
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                      1 hour 20 minutes
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