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The first trailer for
Glenn Danzig's upcoming homage to Italian spaghetti westerns and classic vampire films,
"Death Rider In The House Of Vampires", can be seen below. It is the follow-up to his
"Verotika" feature film directorial debut, which received its premiere in June 2019.
"Death Rider In The House Of Vampires" was written and directed by
Danzig, with
Glenn also acting as the executive producer, along with
James Cullen Bresack. The cinematography is by
Danzig and
Pedja Radenkovic. The film follows the
Death Rider, who travels to the desert Vampire Sanctuary, ruled by
Count Holliday. The price of admission… one untouched virgin.
According to
The Wrap,
"Death Rider In The House Of Vampires" stars
Devon Sawa as the
Death Rider,
Julian Sands as
Count Holliday and
Kim Director as
Carmilla Joe. Joining them are
Eli Roth as
Drac Cassidy,
Ashley Wisdom as
Mina Belle,
Victor DiMattia as
Kid Vlad,
Danny Trejo as
Bela Latigo, and
Danzig himself as the vampire gunslinger
Bad Bathory.
Glenn spoke about his new project during a question-and-answer session for the Philadelphia screening of
"Verotika" in December 2019 at the Philadelphia Film Center. He said: "We just finished my vampire spaghetti western. It's much different [from
'Verotika'], of course, because there's no comic book to follow. So we had pretty free rein in the movie… All the characters have like a traditional vampire name and a traditional western name… A lot of guest cameos in it — some friends of mine came in and did some cameos in the movie. It's, again, based on the European cinema."
He continued: "A spaghetti western is, basically… The Italians loved American westerns so much, they started doing their own westerns. And they got
Clint Eastwood and
Henry Fonda and a bunch of other actors —
Charles Bronson — to come over and do these wild Italian westerns. And we eventually started calling them spaghetti westerns. In mine, everybody's a vampire. So you don't have to wait around to see the vampire — everybody's a vampire. You don't have to wait around to see blood — you're gonna see lots of blood… It's pretty crazy."
Glenn also confirmed that he has an acting role in his new movie. "It's such a small part," he said. "But it was a lot of fun. I get to get all bloody, which I love being bloody — it's part of what I do."
Glenn previously spoke about his upcoming movie during a question-and-answer session at at the
Cinepocalypse festival in Chicago. He said: "The soundtrack has been done [since 2017] and, of course, it sounds almost exactly like an
Ennio Morricone soundtrack."
When it debuted at the
Cinepocalypse festival in Chicago,
"Verotika" was compared by some reviewers to
Tommy Wiseau's
"The Room", the so-bad-it's-amazing drama which is considered one of the worst movies ever made.
"If you do something you love, it's difficult,"
Danzig said at
Cinepocalypse. "On a movie set, there are tons of problems that happen that you would never foresee. So, you have to hit the ground running… Right from the start, it was very clear we're not making a Hollywood movie. A lot of my influences and the different films I like, especially European films, you can see them in here, and, lighting, colors, it's much different from a movie you will see nowadays."