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VHS : Taste The Blood Of Dracula [1970]
starring: Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford, Linda Hayden, Peter Sallis
directed by: Peter Sasdy
directed by: Peter Sasdy
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Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 5014781107228 Format: PAL Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: May 01, 2000 Running Time: 87 minutes Sales Rank: 5410 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: June 07, 1970 |
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
Taste the Blood of Dracula is one of the best of Christopher Lee's Dracula series for Hammer. A group of businessmen who, out of sight of their families, like nothing more than to frequent brothels and generally behave in sensation-seeking ways, are persuaded by Dracula's servant (a splendidly manic Ralph Bates) that summoning up the orthodontically-challenged aristocrat would be the ultimate thrill. They warily agree, purchasing relics for the necessary ritual from a shifty dealer (Roy Kinnear--who else?), but panic halfway through the proceedings and decide to kick their initiator to death instead. Unfortunately, it's too late, and Dracula materialises as they make good their escape, swearing to avenge the murder of his servant.
While the subsequent descent into paranoia by the three villains-Dracula himself hardly counts in comparison with this odious bunch--isn't exactly the stuff of Rosemary's Baby, it still infuses the plot with an element of psychodrama that is unusual for a Hammer fang-fest. There are strong performances pretty much all round, but Peter 'Clegg' Sallis quakes exceptionally nicely as one of the trio of miscreants. The sets, props and costumes are of an unusually high order, too. --Roger Thomas
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- Hammer still got the knackThe 5th installment of Hammers Dracula films is excellent in my opinion. There was a review in a newsapaper stating that this was a recovery from the last film (risen from the grave). I think people said that because there was no one else besides Lee of any real substance. Ralph Bates fills that role excellently not as an adversary but as a catalyst in reviving Dracula with the help of Roy Kinnear and Peter Sallis as well as other dodgy blokes. The ending is a bit of a letdown as it isn't completly ... Read More
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- Sins of the fathersTaste the Blood of Dracula follows on so directly from Dracula Has Risen From the Grave that, after one particularly bizarre piece of deus ex machina that borders on the inspired, it begins with Roy Kinnear literally stumbling into the last scene of the movie. On a less welcome note it also marks the point at which an increasingly reticent Christopher Lee was reduced to a cameo figure as the Count - it's not until the halfway point that he's resurrected in a less than convincing display of special effects. ... Read More
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- Taste the Blood of DraculaWith the substantial success of the previous 2 sequels, Hammer began filming Taste the Blood of Dracula in 1969. Released early in 1970, this film, perhaps partially drawing on Hammer's earlier success with Christopher Lee in the film 'The Devil Rides Out', (1968) would deepen the connection between Dracula & Satanism still further. But how would Hammer ressurect the Count yet again? This was acheived in a flashback to the end of 'Dracula Has Risen From The Grave', in which we see that Dracula's destruction ... Read More
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- Lee is wastedThis 4th film in the Hammer Dracula series starts promisingly. Roy Kinnear witnesses Dracula dying in classic fashion (stake in heart) and keeps the Counts dried blood, Cape and Ring etc. Later in the film he sells these to three English gentleman who are looking for something more exciting than a brothel and are given this opportunity by Lord Courtley (Ralph Bates). He wants to bring Dracula back to life and the 3 gentlemen help him. Of course it all goes wrong, and from there the film goes downhill rapidly.
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- An Excellent Hammer HorrorThis is my favourite of Hammer's Dracula series.
The story concerns three Victorian thrill seekers who looking for greater and greater excitement are persuaded by fellow degenerate Lord Courtley(Ralph Bates, excellent as usual) to participate in a satanic ritual in an abandoned Church. This is where things start to go wrong as Courtley goes into a seizure and is battered to death by the unpleasant trio, his blood resurrecting Dracula. The children of these men are then used by the Count as an instrument of ... Read More
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