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Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Dalbert Pringle Considered quite brutal and excessively graphic in its day (1958) - "Horror of Dracula" (a Hammer Production) was really surprisingly tame by today's gore-infested standards of over-the-top, blood-saturated vampire movies.But - All the same - This particular horror film of glorified blood-lust is notable for being one of the very first vampire films to initiate the whole ultra-violent, blood-thirst trend that has continued (at full-throttle) to this very day.I think that it's interesting to note that this particular film-version of Bram Stoker's famed vampire story has Count Dracula's castle situated just outside the paranoid, little village of Klausenberg (not the expected, Transylvania).Anyway - Though this film did have its horrific moments - (Stake through the heart, anyone?) - It really wasn't anywhere near to being as sinister and savage as I was expecting it to be.

leplatypus I watched this movie when i was 10 years old so at that time with a blank mind: so it was my 1st descent into mystery and vampires and i was totally terrified: the loud music, the night attacks, this old Gothic castle lost in a desolated country, the huge stature of Christopher Lee and his amazing dark attitude, all those things left a terrible mark in my mind, like the cross on vampires! I felt totally alone and helpless against this nightmare, like Lucy without the garlic flowers! If I'm right, i have never watched it again until tonight... Tonight was a back to back following yesterday night with Coppola's Dracula: since 1985, i have expanded my travels into supernatural (even read the novel!) and for sure, tonight watching was less painful: it was great to compare it with Coppola version as it looks like game cards being shuffled or the same story happening in another dimension! The restoration is beautiful with vivid colors (nothing to do with today 2 colors blue/orange cinematography!), the effects are stunning (without digital tools!) so like the saying, old is cool! Maybe the fame went to Lee, but Cushing play was as much essential as a force of good! This time, it was good to see an old face with a much younger Batman butler who has maybe a thing about capes and bats!

david-sarkies A part of me is quite baffled that a couple of big name stars sunk so low as to appear in what is effectively a pretty cheesy horror movie. Well, I'm probably being a bit harsh though since Christopher Lee has gone down in history as being the actor to play Dracula, just as Boris Karloff is seen as The Frankenstein's Monster (and as it turns out the Mummy as well). The problem was that the acting actually wasn't all that fantastic, and the movie, you have to admit, is actually pretty corny. Mind you, it isn't one of those 'so bad that it is actually good' type of movies, nor is it cheesy in the sense that it is bad – The Horror of Dracula is a classic movie, and rightfully so, it is just that looking back at this film from 2017 it does make me scratch my head in wonder.I probably don't need to go to much into the plot because, well, it's Dracula and I'm sure we all know the plot. No, come to think of it, we don't because I get the feeling that most of us think that the plot of Dracula is similar to Rocky Horror Picture Show, when in reality it isn't. In fact it is closer to the book, though there are quite a few poetic licenses used, such as making Jonathon Harker a rather minor role, and also switching the female characters around (Lucy is now Harker's fiancé, and they have introduced a completely new character as well). Other than that the plot is similar in that we are dealing with Dracula coming to the civilised world to wreck havoc.The film itself is pretty basic, and actually seems to be quite low budget as well. However, as I suggested, it isn't actually a bad film. It's a classic, and rightfully so, particularly since it launched this whole modern horror genre. Mind you, we are talking about slasher flicks here, though a part of me was half expecting that Dracula would eventually go on a killing spree, particularly since they kill of Harker near the beginning of the film. However, this turned out not to be the case. In the end, it is quite a fun film, and it actually makes me want to go and watch some of the Boris Karloff classics as well (though I think I'll stay away from some of the more cheesier Dracula films).

morrison-dylan-fan Making plans for what Hammer Horror movies to view during IMDb's Horror board October Challenge,I decided to finally view what is Hammer's most famous Gothic Horror:Dracula. Going on Amazon to order the title,I was thrilled to find out that a Blu/DVD has come out with missing footage found from a Japanese print!,which led to me excitingly getting ready to take a stab at Hammer's epic.The plot:Entering the castle of Count Dracula under the cover of being a librarian,vampire hunter Jonathan Harker gets enticed by a vamp women who tries to kill him.Flying out of the shadows,Dracula grabs her and knocks Harker up.Waking up,Harker finds bite marks on his neck. Looking for his friend Harker,fellow vamp hunter Abraham Van Helsing goes to the inn Harker was staying in. Telling the punters in the pub that he plans to kill Dracula,Helsing is met with a stony silence. Sneaking up to him,the inn keeper's daughter gives Helsing Harker's diary,which lets Helsing find out what Harker has sunk his fangs into.View on the film:Editing footage feared lost back into the print,the BFI and Hammer present a magnificent transfer,with the colours being crisp (and the missing footage being in surprisingly OK shape) and the soundtrack hitting the chills cleanly. Frying the steak of Bram Stoker's novel over 83 minutes,the screenplay by Jimmy Sangster moves at an extraordinary pace,striking the Hammer Horror with Adventure movie excitement. Smartly keeping Dracula's screen time and dialogue limited,Sangster builds tense anticipation to each appearance of Dracula,by making his shadow linger over everything that Harker and Helsing do in their precious daylight. Keeping Harker and Helsing's quest to kill Dracula moving deeper into the lair, Sangster opens the crypt to the most pulp elements of the story,bringing Hammer Horror Scream Queens out to tempt the heroes with devilish sin,and Sangster using Dracula to stab Gothic Horror fear into the guys,via Dracula sinking his fangs into anyone Harker and Helsing hold dear.Declaring the full-on arrival of Hammer Horror with red waxy blood being splatted on Dracula's coffin,director Terence Fisher & cinematographer Jack Asher take the Gothic Horror out of the shadows and bring it into lurid light. Setting an atmosphere which would become the foundation of Hammer Horror,Fisher fills Dracula's coffin with incredibly lush colours,splashed on the screen in waves of ultra-stylised reds,greens and blues which drape the Gothic Horror elegance across the screen. Backed by an excellent,powerful score from James Bernard, Fisher displays a masterful eye for the use of space,by holding the camera back to open up the superbly designed sets,which unveil all the horrors Harker and Helsing are to face waiting in the shadows.Sensually walking out from an encounter with Dracula, Melissa Stribling gives a great performance as Mina,whose sexy locks Stribling threads with an icy breathlessness over being caught in an unbreakable trance. Given just 13 lines,Christopher Lee makes every one of them..count with a towering performance as Count Dracula. Seductively slithering around his castle,Lee destroys Dracula's "gentlemen" façade with burning red eyes and screeches of rage at those who want to bring light into his dark world. Entering with doubts on the myths of vamps, Michael Gough gives a terrific performance as Arthur,via Gough keeping Arthur's sceptic view in tact,but making sure it never overshadows the supernatural horrors that Arthur gets engulfed in. Sealing the drops of blood with an English gentlemen stamp,Peter Cushing gives a wonderful performance as Helsing,that neatly contrasts Dracula's animal rage by Cushing keep a good,risk-taking heart always at the centre of Helsing,as the Horror of Dracula opens the Hammer House of Horror.