John Carradine who played Count Dracula in two of Universal Pictures finest Gothic horror films, House Of Dracula and House Of Frankenstein gets a third go around as the vampire Count from Transylvania in Billy The Kid Vs. Dracula. As you gather Dracula has gone to the American west to seek a new bride. One sight of Melinda Plowman's picture and Carradine decides she's to be his. He snacks on an Indian maid while stopping at a stagecoach station rousing the Indians to attack and kill Plowman's mother and uncle on the way home.But Plowman is engaged to none other than Billy The Kid played here by Chuck Courtney who's given up his outlaw ways and is now Plowman's ranch foreman as well as husband to be. Not even a no account Count from the undead is taking Melinda away from Billy.Watching this film all I could think about is how well Universal did those Gothic horror films and how lousy this was. Count Dracula does not sleep in a coffin and he's going around during the sunlight hours. I guess it just comes from spening too many sleepless days not in your native soil.The end of Dracula leaves a lot to be desired here as well.John Carradine who in my opinion appeared in more junk movies than any other actor looked pained during this film. I guess he remembered what he did in this genre in the olden days. A whole lot of familiar western faces also looked quite embarrassed as well.This one is one of the campiest films you'll ever see.

*Spoiler/plot- 1966, An immigrant couple and their young daughter are covered wagon traveling in the West, but still they sleep under the stars. "Dracula" attacks the young daughter but is scared away by her cross. Then Dracula rides on a local stagecoach with an old woman and her brother, who are heading to the Double Bar B ranch. The ranch was owned the old woman's dead husband. Mrs. Double Bar B shows off a picture of her 18-year-old daughter to Dracula. Dracula is interested but does not act immediately. Then, we are introduced to Betty and Billy the Kid roles. Billy is the foreman of the Double Bar B ranch. Dracula arrives in town, posing as Betty's now-dead uncle, James Underhill. Dracula lives at the Double Bar B Ranch and is playing at being a ranch owner. The immigrant couple will stay in the town after Dracula kills their daughter, because the immigrant woman is determined to kill Dracula and save Betty and the other local young girls. Billy meets up with Dracula in the old abandoned silver mine and an epic battle ensues.*Special Stars- John Carradine, Chuck Courtney, Harry Carey Jr.*Theme- The goodness and purity of the American western culture will amend the mistakes of the corrupt evil European ways.*Based on- Dracula and Western cowboy myths *Trivia/location/goofs-ONLINE. Film locations were at the once famous and much visited 50's Ray 'Crash' Corrigan's Movie Ranch in Simi Valley, CA. Too many film goofs: Obvious fake bat swoops out from behind the wagon, all the exterior night shots are cheap day-for-night lenses, actor playing Billy The Kid role is not believable, the Doctor gives Billy an oversize metal scalpel knife that Billy drives into Dracula's heart, and a flapping fake bat on a string is shown.*Emotion- A somewhat forgettable film. RIDICULOUS: Dracula is knocked down by Billy throwing his empty pistol at the Count, while down the doctor's surgery scalpel is pushed into Cracula's chest by Billy resulting in a caped skeleton appearing. It's bad, but it's also boring. And boring is dead for a film. Not much really happens that matters cinematically for the audience.

Billy The Kid Versus Dracula is cited by many (including the man himself) as the low-point in the career of John Carradine. It's not true. I've seen a lot worse pictures than this.Yes, the premise of the movie is a bit silly, but never boring. Seen in the spirit of the poverty-row horrors and westerns of the thirties and forties (of which director William Beaudine is no stranger), it's actually pretty entertaining.Also, it's a lot of fun to see Carradine reprising his role as Dracula, from Universal's House Of Frankenstein and House Of Dracula, a role that launched his career in horror movies.Don't miss the hilarious climax where Billy the kid beans old Drac in the face with a shooting-iron!

Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966)*** (out of 4)Billy the Kid (Chuck Courtney) has settled down and is now working on a ranch where he has fallen in love with its owner Elizabeth (Melinda Plowman). Her uncle (John Carradine) shows up to pay her a visit and soon Billy realizes that he's really COunt Dracula.If you go into a movie called BILLY THE KID VERSUS Dracula and take it serious then you really need to take a long, deep look at your life and wonder why you take things so seriously. THis here was obviously meant to be camp and with WIlliam Beaudine behind the camera they managed to get the movie in the can in five days. Who would have thought that all these decades later that the film would still have a nice little following among bad movie lovers?For my money this here is one of the greatest bad movies ever made and it's entertainment value is pretty much off the charts. The only bad movie that comes closer to such entertainment is PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE so these two really are the kings of their sub- genre. What makes this film so entertaining is the fact that everyone is taking it pretty serious. The cast are all extremely serious and they're treating these events as if they were in a serious drama.The one exception is Carradine who appears to know this is pure camp. He's simply wonderful here and you can't help but call this a great comic performance. I mean, look at an early scene where he's in a bar and a girl with her parents have accused him of being a vampire. He says "a vampire" and take a look at his eyes as he says the line. Pure camp. The actor was a very smart man and a terrific actor who took roles like this to take care of his children. It's clear he knew he was making a low-budget horror movie and he's just making it fun.Beaudine actually makes this look like an actual Western and the film comes off as a real production and not just some cheap film. I'd also argue that the entire film is just about as entertaining as something like this could get. The horror elements are all rather silly as is everything else about the film but it has a certain innocent charm that really comes across.