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DVD Taste the Blood of Dracula
"Drac" is back once again in this fourth installment of Hammer's Dracula films starring Christopher Lee. Under the guidance of Satanic Priest Lord Courtley, three middle-aged professionals seek to add more spice to their love lives by dabbling in rituals to the Dark Prince. After drinking the blood of the Count, the pleasure seekers kill Lord Courtley, inadvertently awakening Dracula who is dead set on avenging his Priest's murder. Though not on par with Hammer's original "Horror of Dracula", Taste the Blood of Dracula does take all the key elements from the original (beautiful heroines, picturesque settings, gothic ambiance, and Lee as the "Count") and somewhat successfully "cheeses" it up for audiences of the '70s. Those wishing to expand their cheesy '70s Dracula experience will find Morrissey's "Hammeresque" Blood for Dracula a nice compliment. By all counts Taste the Blood of Dracula is a fun, campy romp --Rob Bracco
Christopher Lee carries on as the famous vampire in the fourth entry of the Hammer series. There is an effective handoff from "Dracula Has Risen From the Grave." A peddler accidentally witnesses Dracula's demise and takes the black cloak, the signet ring, and a vial of Dracula's powdered blood from the crumpled remains. A dark disciple of Dracula lures three Victorian family men into forbidden satanic rites, but first they obtain the "elements" from the peddler. In an exciting scene in an abandoned church, the Prince of Darkness returns from doomed oblivion after his powdered blood mixes with drops of fresh blood. Unholy communion, indeed. Dracula proceeds to prey on the three middle-age thrill-seekers and their delectable daughters. The prim Victorian women display ample cleavage as the vampire's kiss prevails. Dracula's evil power overcomes all resistance. The proper English girls become wantonly eager women. Implied sex hangs heavy in the mist shrouded night air. The penetration is of the fangs in the neck variety, but we get the idea. A hallmark of this series is Lee's towering presence in the familiar black cloak. This vampire is feral compared to other film depictions. As blood lust rages, he is red-eyed with snarling passion. Lamenting the lack of time that Dracula is on screen is a minor quibble. Dracula's dispatch is spectacular, if a little rushed. Irony abounds in Dracula's choice of the forgotten church as a refuge, considering his aversion to religious symbols. This film will please Hammer Horror Heads. It's also a good change of pace from mad-slasher horror flicks. ;-)
TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA
I rented this film some time ago, and I had sort of mixed fellings for it. Some parts were a bit of a letdown, but other sequences worked quite well. When a devil worshipper named Courtley (Ralph Bates) and a trio of high society Victorian England thrill seekers attempt to ressurrect Dracula by drinking his blood, Courtley chokes on it, forcing the others to drop their cups and beat him to death. Dracula is reborn, using his disciple's corpse. Dracula then proceeds to take vengance on Courtley's killers by killing them. With the help of one thrill seeker named Secker, a courageous young man out to free his girlfiend from Dracula's hypnosis, ends the vampire's terror. The plot was somewhat slow and unoriginal. Lee gives his usual sinister performance, and his scenes are the best in the film. By the way, Lee originally refused to do this film. Ralph Bates was enlisted as Dracula, but at the last minute, Lee was convinced to play Dracula. And of course, the role of Courtley was given to young Ralph Bates. This film can be pretty enjoyable. Fans of the series should definitely get this film! If you are interested in starting on viewing the Hammer Dracula series, watch them in order. They all have a sense of continuity and order matters!
bloody good !
well we had prety much given up hope of ever seeing a decent version of this classic Dracula adventure when Warner anounced it's release in an unbutchered state.the image is flawless , the sound is good if not expansive but the real treat is that the 4 minutes missing from every print released so far has this time been included.The bordelo scene is now free of the savage editing done by warner in the early 70's to be able to market it to the kiddies.The other additions are very short scenes juged to violent at the time.The result is a film that flows better & has a stronger story & that's it rates a 5 on my scale. review of the DVD edition
Peter Cushing delivers his most cold-blooded portrayal of the mad Baron in his fifth turn as Dr. Frankenstein. Abandoning his latest experiment after a drunk stumbles into his secret lab (upsetting a severed head) he hurriedly finds new lodgings with a sweet young thing (Hammer glamour babe Veronica Carlson) whose boyfriend (Simon Ward, in his film debut) works in the local sanitarium. Frankenstein blackmails the lovers into complicity with his latest experiment, resorts to kidnapping and murder for his subjects, turns accomplice Ward into a killer, and even rapes Carlson in a coldly brutal scene. The goriest film of the series kicks off with a flamboyant beheading with a scythe (seen only as a spray of blood across a window) and is full of bloody brain surgery, conveniently... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Peter Cushing - Veronica Carlson Director(s): Terence Fisher DVD Release Date: Released the 27 April 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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This is one of the Best Hammer Dracula Movies in the Series Great Sets,Good Story,Fine Casting with some Good and Bad Points
First the Good
1. Dracula Has Never Been played any Better than Christopher Lee
2. The Castle in this one is The Best Looking One Out of the Whole Series
3. The Coolest Scene in the Movie is where Dracula climbs up the Wall to the upper window
Now the Bad
1. In "Taste the Blood of Dracula" Dracula is Destroyed in London
Here we Begin in Transylvania and yet were supossed to believe this is where He was Last Destroyed
2. The Bat looks too Fake and in some Scenes you Can see a String Hanging in off the Wings
3. Is the Klove in this movie supossed to be the Klove who... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Roy Ward Baker DVD Release Date: Released the 07 August 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The Hammeresque Creeping Flesh is a creepy thriller mixing one part Cain and Abel, a dash of Frankenstein, and a pinch of the Re-Animator with the best elements that '70s U.K. horror has to offer. Is evil a sickness that mankind can be cured of? Dr. Emmanuel Hildern (Peter Cushing) seems to think so. After returning from New Guinea with the ultimate skeletal specimen of evil it becomes his life's obsession. While Dr. Hildern closes in on the serum, James (Christopher Lee), his half-brother and rival, looks on with envy from behind the mental asylum he runs. He too is dabbling in science to find the cure of madness. However, with less of a success rate. After Dr. Hildern tests his evil serum on his daughter Penelope, she of course goes mad, goes on a killing spree, and ends up in... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Christopher Lee - Peter Cushing Director(s): Freddie Francis DVD Release Date: Released the 08 June 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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dracula Prince of Darkness, the second hammer horror dracula in the series. starring christopher Lee in an unspeeking role(why?), and the worst actress, Barbra Shelly(I don't know about you but shelly reminds me of my seventh grade teacher). One of the few wide screen hammer films that I could find, its a must have for any hammer collecter. The story isn't bad, four travelers from england are taking a vacation in, of all places, the Carpathian, supposedly to broden there minds. They are abandoned by there coach driver so when a misterios cart comes rolling down the road they decide to take it. But the horses went in the wrong direrction, towards castle Dracula. The servent of the castle, kills one of the travlers and pours blood on the ashes of the count(he ran into the sun in Horror of... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Christopher Lee Director(s): Terence Fisher DVD Release Date: Released the 20 October 1998 Special Order
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After Hammer Studios' tremendous success with The Curse of Frankenstein, they struck a deal to adapt Universal's catalog of classics and set their sights first on Dracula. Christopher Lee removes the monstrous makeup from the earlier film and makes his entrance as an elegant, confident, altogether seductive Dracula, a frightening figure of flashing eyes and erotic allure. Peter Cushing, with his hawklike profile and piercing eyes, turns his rationalist intensity to Van Helsing: man of science as crusading vampire hunter. Director Terence Fisher and screenwriter Jimmy Sangster make a few changes to Bram Stoker's tale; gone are Renfield, Transylvania, howling wolves, and transformations into bats. The Count is an old-world aristocrat firmly ensconced in a castle in England and... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Terence Fisher DVD Release Date: Released the 01 October 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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