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Summary: ALMOST THERE...
Review: The mood is just perfect!!! Nice screenplay. The actors and the lines are great. Veronica Carlson's neck is the dream of every vampire. The "bite" scenes could be a lot "sexier", though. Christopher Lee is the best Dracula ever.
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Summary: Needs a middle
Review: The third Chrstopher Lee Dracula film starts with the discovery of a dead women with bite marks on her neck, the town immediately believes Dracula is alive again. A visiting monsignor gets the local priest to accompany him to castle Dracula, the monsignor seals off the castle with a huge crucifix. The local priest flees, unwittingly brings Dracula back to life and then becomes his slave because the priest obviously has no backbone. Dracula discovers his castle has been blocked off, so he and the cowardly priest go to the monsignor's village to seek revenge on him by pursuing his niece. This film starts out good and finishes very strong with one of the better endings in the whole series. There are a number of visuals in this film that are just wonderful. The supporting cast is overall good, ecspecially Rupert Davies as the monsignor. The main problem with this film is that there is not much going on in the middle of the film. Dracula is seen very little, the other characters just kind of stand around looking like they are just waiting for something to do. No excitement is being built and no mood is being set, it just looks like everyone is waiting for Dracula to show so they can go off to the conclusion. Christopher Lee does very well in his parts, but he could have been given more time. The ending and the visuals make this film, but with just a little more effort it really could have been very good.
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Summary: Dracula's Parish Priest
Review: The third go around for Lee as dracula, but the fourth in the series, takes place from the end of "Dracula Prince of Darkness" A priest and Monsignor make the treacherous journey to Castle Dracula to ward off the evil that lurks over the quiet village below, during the trek the two become seperated the monsignor places a large crucifix upon the door to seal in the evil. The priest, however,falls and bangs his head on the ice, dripping blood into the Count's frozen tomb. Dracula now reborn, unleashes his fury against the one who defiled his castle,with an intern ....wait, that's another horror story. the monsignor and his family are the prey. Some great action, a good story line and Christopher Lee. The ending is intense and abrupt. The only real complaint is it isn't widescreen
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Summary: LOOK INTO MY EYES
Review: THIS AN OK DRACULA FILM IN THE HAMMER SERIES,THE SUSPENCE IS NOT THAT GREAT AND THE ENDING IS PREDICTABLE.THE ONLY GOOD ACTING IN THE FILM COMES FROM CHRISTOPHER LEE WHILE THE OTHERS IN FILM ARE DECENT.
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Summary: i come to suck you're blood
Review: this classis without a doubt is the best dracula movie ever made.it is even better than the original.this is the way the story really goes.the scenes were terrific. now why the hell don't they put this one on dvd so i can buy it.i have it on tape but it should really be good on dvd.
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Summary: This is a pious horror film.
Review: This film has the basic Dracula plot of a vampire in search of blood, and revenge. Part of the story is a love story--where a Monseigneur forbids the love of his niece for an athiest. Also a priest's will is controlled by Dracula. Religious faith (naturally mixed with some superstition regarding vampires) is a central theme in the movie. The film is very atmospheric and enjoyable
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Summary: Dracula lives!
Review: This film takes me back to my childhood. Boy, did this terrify and thrill me! Seeing it now, it holds up quite well. It is not perfect (the boo-boo's relating to vampire lore being particularly irritating) but, it is well made, exciting, colorful and genuinely chilling. Christopher Lee oozes icy charm and intense malovelance but, unfortunately, doesn't get to develope the character(something that Peter Cushing got to do in Hammer's Frankenstein series) very much. The romantic leads are okay and are thankfully not as annoying as they could have been. The score is good, full of dread and fear. For fans of classic monsters, this is a real treat!
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Summary: Classic Hammer Horror at it's Best
Review: This Hammer Dracula Film, the third with Christopher Lee is excellent. Full of atmosphere, Gothic touches and beautiful photography. This film will make some understand why to many Christopher Lee is the definitive Dracula. Excellent musical score too, a must-watch for any Horror fan, without a doubt one of Hammers best!
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Summary: excellent
Review: this in my opinion is the best dracula movie ever made. it is even better than the original. i put my order in on dvd. if you like dracula movies than get this one because in my book this is the only one that makes sense.
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Summary: Hammer's BEST!
Review: This is without doubt the absolute best of the Hammer Dracula films! This film is interesting, exciting and FUN! Sure, Dracula is a one-dimensional character, but that's part of the fun. Check out the orignal book - Dracula is a demonic embodiment of evil, and that's the Count's role in this film. Dracula is sort of a background presence of evil who uses hapless humans to do his bidding! This outing starts out splendidly with a scary scene in a church. When I was a kid this film was a staple on the CBS Friday night late show. It took my sister and I about three tries before we could make it past the body falling out of the church bell. Of course that was a more innocent time, today it takes a bit more to scare jaded kids. But this film is a nostalgic delight! Today it can be enjoyed as the campy fun it is. The story is interesting and has a wonderful sense of irony. It never takes itself too seriously, but just sets out to be a good-old fashioned, mildly spooky yarn. After the scary church prologue scene, the story proper gets started with the arrival of the Monsignor to a little village (the home of the afore mentioned church) which falls in the very shadow of Dracula's castle. It is Sunday morning, but the church is empty. The monsignor finds the priest in the tavern. No one will attend mass because of the terrible attrocity committed in the church by Dracula in his last rampage. The monsignor reminds the frightened villagers and priest that Dracula is dead, drowned in the river in the mountains (See Dracula, Prince of Darkness.) They contend that the Count's evil presence still haunts the district. The next morning the Monsignor drags the reluctant priest along and off they climb to Castle Dracula to perform an exorcism. Now the fun really begins - what they actually accomplish is inadvertantly reviving Dracula and freeing him from his icy tomb in the frozen river; locking him out of his castle by a huge cross chained to the front door ( their intention was to trap his spirit inside, instead they lock him out); and royally piss of the ill-tempered Count, sending him on another rampage! The characters are all pretty well developed. Ewan Hooper is excellent as the tortured priest, enslaved by Dracula and forced to do horrible things. Barry Andrews and Veronica Carlson are interesting and likable as the young lovers that are the principle story line. Barbara Ewing as Zena is one of the most well developed and sympathetic of all Hammer heroines. Rupert Davies is a stand out as the well meaning Monsignor. And, of course, Christopher Lee is the coolest Dracula of all. Mean as hell and taking no prisoners. Like "Romeo and Juliet", released the same year, 1968, the film, though a period piece, is given a comtemporary feel. Here it is accomplished by the young hero's atheism and Barbara Ewing's "lovable whore" Zena character. Young people of the late sixties must have identified with these characters and situations which mirrored the changing times and youthful rebellion against previous mores. Maybe that accounts, along with a campy advertising campaign from WB, for the film being the highest grossing of all Hammer films. That, plus it is a damn good flick. The sets are wonderful and, along with the simple story line, evoke the feeling of a fairy tale. It seems much grander than the average Hammer horror. The acting is great, the story is excellent, the music is good, the production values are high. It plays like a mini- vampire epic! This film, along with the next year's "Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed," and "The Devil Rides Out" also from 1968, represent the best Hammer had to offer. Buy this in the Hammer box set from WB. "The Horror of Dracula" (which all the stodgy old critics always rave about, "yawn,") is good, as are "Curse of Frankenstein" and "The Mummy." But the real fun are the late sixties offerings - "Dracula Has Risen From the Grave" (1968) and "Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed" and "Taste the Blood of Dracula" both from 1969. Hammer never made a film that wasn't at least watchable. But for me their fairy taleish fable, "Dracula Has Risen Risen From the Grave" is their high point and their REAL classic.
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