GARY LUCAS ROCKS SPANISH DRACULA AROUND THE WORD 105u2q

I have been mighty busy of late trucking the old devil Spanish "Dracula" (born 1931) around the planet and letting him out of his coffin once in awhile to frighten again at vatiousl fulm festivals all over the world.

Here is a photo from the Jerusalem show, taken by Orli

This summer I sold out twice with my project: http://garylucas.com/www/dracula--at both the Jerusalem Film Festival in early July, and at the Silent Movie Theatre in Hollywood at the end of that month. The audiences thrilled to my score in conjunction with a screening of this incredible little-known classic horror film. In Jerusalem I was introudced by my friend and President of the JFF Jury Richard Pena, who green-lighted the project for the 2010 New York Film Festival, when he was the head programmer there (he stepped down from this position last year but has been more active than ever since departing). Special thanks to Gilli Mendel who had the vision to bring me to Jerusalem to perform with this film years ago after she saw  performance of mine at the Sevilla Film Festival in 2012.

At the Silent Movie Theatre show I was happy to have in attendance my old partner Bill Moseley (we ran a horror film society Things That Go Bump in the Night together at Yale in the early 70's) who is today considered one of the world's greatest living actors in horror films--you may know him as ChopTop in Tobe Hooper's "Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2" and he also starred in Rob Zombie's last two films "The Devil's Rejects" and "House of 1000 Corpses". Also in the audience was Vincent Price biographer writer Lucy Chase Williams, whom Bill and I turned the reins of Things That Go Bump in the Night over to when we departed the campus in 1974. The big thrill for me besides selling out the show was to have Pancho Kohner, the son of the great Mexican film actress Lupita Tovar--who is 102 years old today and still going strong--in attendance. His father Paul Kohner was the producer of Spanish "Dracula" and later a top Hollywood agent. Pancho told me he had read about my project and was frankly skeptical--but seeing and hearing me play my music live in tandem with the film sold him on it 100%--and he thanked me sincerely for my efforts!

More about Spanish Dracula in my next blog coming soon!!

xxGary Lucas