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Name: Horror of Dracula
Released: 1958-5-8
Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh

Horror of Dracula

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1h 23m
1958

91%

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Every night for 600 years he rises from his coffin-bed to seek the warmblood he needs to keep himself alive! Investigating the death of his friend Jonathan Harker--apparently the victim of a bloodsucking vampire--Doctor Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) discovers a diary incriminating Count Dracula (Christopher Lee). But even as Van Helsing realizes the horrifying truth, Dracula stalks Harker's fiancée, Lucy (Carol Nash), trapping her tortured soul in the terrifying force of his hypnotic power--and only Van Helsing may be strong enough to save her by exorcising the Horror of Dracula.

Director:

Terence Fisher

Producer:

Anthony Hinds, Michael Carreras

Writer:

Jimmy Sangster

Cast:

Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh, John van Eyssen

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

91%

Critics Consensus: Trading gore for grandeur, Horror of Dracula marks an impressive turn for inveterate Christopher Lee as the titular vampire, and a typical Hammer mood that makes aristocracy quite sexy.

Reviews

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Sean Axmaker

This is the first film to really mine the erotic appeal of vampires: Dracula seduces Mina and Lucy like a devil tempting good to the dark side through sex, more suggestive than explicit but daring for 1958.

The Hammer Dracula is every bit the classic now as it was back in the 50s and is still the version I mentally refer back to when I see a reference to the classic tale.

Unlike most of Hollywood's quickies, Horror of Dracula has allocated time, thought and talent to an enterprise which successfully recaptures the aura and patina of yesteryear's Middle Europe. Some of the photography is good enough to frame.

Not only Hammer's first take on the Bram Stoker classic, but undoubtedly its finest.

Of all the Dracula horror pictures thus far produced, this one, made in Britain and photographed in Technicolor, tops them all. Its shock impact is, in fact, so great that it may well be considered as one of the best horror films ever made.

October 13, 2020

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