"Highly enjoyable hokum with Carradine stalking Indian squaws in the manner born and giving the movie quite some class. One of the best titles in the horror compendium."
Alan Frank, The Horror Film Handbook

"Ineptly made horror-Western... Mildly bearable at times, but when bored you can play 'Count the Anachronisms'-there are plenty."
Castle of Frankenstein

"Within a blink of a bloodshot eye, Dracula is killing everything around, from buxom Indian maidens to sheep. Billy, meanwhile, studies up on his van Helsing school of vampire killing lessons and chases the rootin' tootin' teether all over the prairie. Not much to sink your teeth into."
Ed Naha, Horrors: From Screen to Scream

"John Carradine considers this his worst film and wishes to burn the negative. You'll wish to provide the matches once you witness this abomination scripted by Karl Hittleman (sic), whose brain must have been transplanted to a corpse before he sat down to write. Directed by William 'Crankem-out-Fast' Beaudine, who abounds in absurdities and vampire lore miscalculations, such as having Carradine/Dracula creeping in broad daylight. By all means, don't see it if you can't miss it."
John Stanley, Revenge of the Creature Features Movie Guide

"John Carradine (in a top hat and a goatee) is Dracula for the first time since 1945... Funny dialogue and low production values in this hopeless horror Western."
Michael Weldon, The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film

"The movie is so awful that, along with its stablemate Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966), it has achieved cult status."
The Aurum Encyclopedia of Film: Horror

"The film is not a particularly good one, but then neither is it a resoundingly bad one, it neither having the truly parsimonious cheapness nor the dialogue howlers that makes so many of these films alternately so horrendous and so perversely entertaining. It is certainly very cheap... but then if cheapness were the only measure of truly bad films it is one most vampire movies would be guilty of... One suspects that the film's reputation is something that has been derived from only a cursory glance at its title more than anything else."
Richard Scheib The SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review

"Classic grade 'Z' horror/western has fifty-nine year-old Carradine recreating his Dracula role in the movies for the first time since House of Dracula (1945). Actually, it's better than expected... Although the production values are bottom-of-the-barrel (including a particularly fake-looking bat), this is worth watching for Carradine's remarkable, over-the-top performance and such old-time western performers as Virginia Christine, Harry Carey, Jr., and Roy Barcroft."
Stephen Jones, The Essential Monster Movie Guide

"This is one of those flicks to watch just to say you saw it, or to try and impress someone that they actually made a film like this..."
Horrorwatch.com

"John Carradine as Dracula, who travels the Old West trying to put the bite on a pretty ranch owner. But Billy to the rescue! Usually seen around 4 or 5 a.m. on channel 11 or 13..."
San Luis Obispo New Times

"What a stinker of a high concept! But unlike a lot of the trash Carradine appeared in during his last quarter-century of acting, this flick is so deadly dull that it's painful to endure... While the horror aspects of the plot are halfway enjoyable, you'll cringe and quickly OD on all the western shenanigans... (and) I guess it's just nitpicking to point out that they have Dracula roaming the countryside at high noon."
Steve Puchalski, Slimetime

"This entertaining cheapie features chintzy FX (the vampire-bat-on-a-string rivals Plan 9's [1959] infamous flying saucer hubcaps), a veteran supporting cast, and more choice lines ("Oh God! The vampire test!") than you can shake a stake at, as well as adding a few (mostly cost-efficient) twists to traditional vampire lore. A worthy addition to any B-movie buff's late-night video library."
Joe Kane, The Phantom's Ultimate Movie Guide

"It's every bit as silly as its title implies, but it isn't unwatchable; its veteran cast and off-the-wall premise make it worth a peek for the easy-to-please fan, and not too onerous a screen-watching chore for the obstinate horror buff who feels it imperative to see every vampire movie."
Tom Weaver, John Carradine: The Films

"A time-honored plot; Dracula sets his sights, the next victim screams a fair bit, and the noble boyfriend comes to the rescue. So far, so predictable. But this 'B' movie breaks out from the pack in several ways; the director, William "One Shot" Beaudine, keeps a cracking pace, so script weaknesses really don't have time to drag the story down. The cast, fresh from obscurity and coffee commercials, are not the world's greatest, but all were committed to the movie, and that's impressive. The one 'big name', John Carradine, hams it up for all he was worth, but really was miscast; he's too nervy and agitated to make the coolest villain of them all."
Andrew Heenan, Vampyreverse

"Final verdict on this movie is that it just doesn't live up to its ludicrous title."
It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad Movie

"A camp classic." www.RottenTomatoes.com

"My worst film? That's easy, a thing called Billy the Kid versus Dracula. I need the money, to be honest. Actors have to live, too, you know. It was a bad film. I don't even remember it. I was absolutely numb."
John Carradine

compiled by Richard Harland Smith