In Ireland in 1902, Count Marnak invites a troupe of actors to perform at his island castle.

Sometimes described as a giallo, The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance contains mysterious murders, but killing take place offscreen and lacks the gialli stylish depictions of death and lacks the psychedelic colors and weird camera angles and elaborate set pieces, and no black gloved killers.

[1] Actress Krista Nell was originally going to play the lead, but took on a secondary part in the film due to her leukemia.

[1] The Italian board of censors objected to the erotic content in the film, specifically the lesbian encounter between Rosalind and Penny and a sex scene between Evelyn and the Count.

[1] From retrospective reviews, AllMovie wrote, "In the hands of a better filmmaker, it might have been an interesting pastiche, or even played as a clever spoof, but Rizzo appears to have made the whole thing up as he went along", calling it "a fairly ordinary giallo thriller".