The Noble devilish Costante Nicose or: Dracula in Brianza) is a 1975 Italian horror comedy film, directed by Lucio Fulci and starring Lando Buzzanca in the main role.

In the film, a superstitious businessman visits Bucharest and spends a night of revelry in the company of a Romanian count and his companions.

He thinks that his newfound urge to drink blood is a coincidence, but he starts displaying vampiric traits and increasingly aggressive behavior.

Bowing to family pressure, Nicosia employs his loafing brother-in-law to the factory's menial post but fires him the following day after catching the man asleep on the job.

However, this attempt to re-establish his heterosexuality fails because the tormented Nicosia feels compelled to bite her neck and suck her blood.

Disturbed, Nicosia calls on his Great Aunt Maria to beg her to remove the curse which, he assumes, is responsible for his homosexuality and blood craving.

Returning home, Nicosia responds to his wife's sexual advances by plunging his fang-like teeth into her bare bottom during foreplay.

Over the next months, Nicosia adopts devil-may-care aggression; he re-fires his brother-in-law, visits prostitutes to satisfy his urge to bite, and isolates himself from family and friends.

Just as he seems to have surrendered to total cynicism, his wife arrives at the factory with a baby, his newborn son that was conceived Nicosia's vampiric phase.

Right after principal shooting for Four of the Apocalypse was complete, director Lucio Fulci began working on a new comedy film the vein of Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein.

[2] The film's screenplay included the comedy screenwriting team of Bruno Corbucci and Mario Amendola as well as Pupi Avati.