Buy For Him

A guide to buying gifts for the man in your life

Add our site to IE favourites | Add our store to your IE favourites | Add Dracula Prince Of Darkness [1966] VHS to IE favourites

Our Recommendations

Books

Store:
VHS
Subject:
Dracula Prince Of Darkness [1966]
Other categories
	Action & Adventure
	Children's Videos
	Classic Films
	Comedy
	Drama
	Fitness Corner
	Horror & Suspense
	Music & Performing Arts
	Science Fiction & Fantasy
	Special Interest
	Sports
	Television & Documentary
	World Cinema

VHS : Dracula Prince Of Darkness [1966]

starring: Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir, Francis Matthews, Suzan Farmer
directed by: Terence Fisher


Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 5014780390812 Format: PAL, Widescreen Label: Lumiere Pictures Manufacturer: Lumiere Pictures Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Lumiere Pictures Release Date: February 27, 1995 Running Time: 87 minutes Sales Rank: 11754 Studio: Lumiere Pictures Theatrical Release Date: January 12, 1966
(opens in a new window - please enable pop-ups) Alternatively: Buy direct from Amazon.co.uk

Related Items:

Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
As the third in what became a series of eight, Prince of Darkness was distinguished among the Hammer Dracula movies for several reasons. It was the third and last directed by Terence Fisher and his familiarity with the mythos and studio practices meant the rushed production still came out looking spectacular in places. Moving into the tail end of the 1960s, Hammer looked for ways of cost cutting: the film's dramatic finale on a frozen river takes place on a two-for-one set being used simultaneously for another shoot. This was also the series entry that included a substitute for the Renfield character missing from the first movie. Thorley Walters as Ludwig is a colourful cameo and that's also all that can be said of Christopher Lee. Despite top billing, the mute monster occupies but a fraction of the overall on-screen time. The real frights come from gaunt butler Klove who scares the life (literally) out of hapless travellers Alan, Charles, Helen and Diana. Surely their fate would ensure no-one else took the mountain pass to Carlsbad? But only two years later, audiences discovered Dracula Has Risen from the Grave.

On the DVD: apart from scene access there's nothing making use of the DVD format here. The 2.55:1 presentation is certainly welcome, and the mono audio somehow feels appropriate. --Paul Tonks

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Christopher Lee is back as the suddenly silent Count Dracula
Christopher Lee returns to the screen as Count Dracula in this 1965 film from Hammer Studio directed by Terence Fisher. Unfortunately, instead of Peter Cushing as Van Helsing we have Andrew Keir as Father Sandor. Keir is a fine actor, but his character seems tepid after Cushing's work in "Horror of Dracula." The good father warns a couple of traveling Englishmen and their wives to stay away from Castle Dracula but the tourists end up there and the blood of one of them is used to revive the count ... Read More

Rating:

- 2nd Lee-Cushing Dracula is a great time
Strangely, this film is referred to often as "the sequel" to Horrors of Dracula, when actually Brides of Dracula was the second in the series. Then it became know as the "prequel to the sequel"...whatever, it's one of the best of the Hammer vampire cycle and a great film for Lee - Cushing fans.
Hammer in it's early days tended to be shortsighted. In the first pairing of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in Frankenstein, they ended up having Cushing dump Lee's monster into a vat of acid. Super ... Read More

Rating:

- Vamp shocker
Hammer, bless their hearts, manage to take all that is cheesy in the Dracula idiom, concentrate it, and discard everything of any real interest. Bram Stoker's novel is an extremely subtle, complex and allegorical exploration of the human condition, and there have been some outstanding dramatisations of it (the best of which pick up a number of different subtexts), but this surely isn't one of them.

This is a Z-Grade horror/suspense movie, and in fairness to it, it doesn't try to be anything ... Read More

Rating:

- Dracula - Prince of Silence
This is a competent third entry in Hammer's Dracula Saga, but it has a few drawbacks. First, there is no dialogue for Christopher Lee, which is just a darn shame. Second, it takes an awful long time for Dracula to make his entrance. Where "The Horror of Dracula" was fast-paced, DpoD is slow in building up the climax (I can't comment on its relation to preceding "Brides of Dracula"). Some stunning visuals and good acting, most notable Van Helsing-representant Andrew Keir, later to star in the excellent "Quatermass ... Read More

Rating:

- 5 star film, shame about the presentation
I for one greeted the news of region 2 Hammer dvds with some excitement, but I have to say that I'm a wee bit disapponted with this release.

Presented in widescreen (but not anamorphic), with nothing in the way of extras save chapter access, the film is one of Hammer's best, though as usual Christopher Lee has little to do save the usual lurking around, hissing and biting. Andrew Keir makes a decent Van Helsing substitute, and Barbara Shelly makes a fantastic transformation from buttoned-up, repressed, ... Read More

(opens in a new window - please enable pop-ups)
Alternatively: Buy direct from Amazon.co.uk

Browse for similar items by category:

The 'buy for' shopping network: BuyForHim | BuyForHer | Get a store like this