Dracula: Prince of Darkness

Diana holds the crucifix out towards Dracula twice in successive camera shots from the back while front shots don't show her holding it at all Just as Dracula begins his descent into the freezing waters of the castle moat at the end of the film, the long shot clearly reveals the pivots holding up the ice beneath him.

A jet aircraft trail can be glimpsed in the sky during the climax.

After the tourists enter the castle, the coach drives away and the gate shuts.

Charles runs towards it, while the others stand in the foreground, to his left.

When he walks back, the camera cuts to a slightly different angle.

Diana, Helen, and Alan are now standing further to the right.

When Dracula opens his shirt for Diana Kent to taste the blood on his chest, he is interrupted and has to leave by kicking open a door.

He picks Diana up and takes her to a horse carriage, and in the very next shot, Dracula's shirt is closed, completely buttoned back up.

He couldn't have done this while carrying Diana's body.

This story takes place ten years after the end of "Horror Of Dracula".

It is supposedly the same castle that all the natives fear, yet the castle looks completely different on the outside as well as the inside.

In Helen's staking, the stake is too low to enter her heart.

- PLOTAt the end of the opening scene, Dracula's ashes are seen blown away by the wind.

Yet later in the movie, Klove has a pot containing them which he dumps into Dracula's coffin.

.....oh yes there is, an he's in fine form, eventually.

The first direct sequel to the studios' "Dracula" (after the Dracula-less sequel "The Brides of Dracula"), this is standard stuff for them, but typically well done. Director Terence Fisher is in fine form as always, the look of the film is perfect, James Bernards' score is thunderous and insistent, the ladies (Barbara Shelley and Suzan Farmer) are ravishing, and Sir Christopher Lee is a force of nature as the bad Count.

Paint-by-numbers Hammer vampire flick. Two British couples ignore warnings and stay at Castle Dracula.

I first saw this in the mid 90s on a vhs. Revisited it recently.

I'm a big Hammer fan - in theory at least - but this really isn't a good film. There's no story, only a ragbag of 'Dracula elements' taken from the book and not used in the first film.

Terence Fisher directed this third film in the "Dracula" series that sees the return of Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, who has been dead for ten years, but his loyal servant Klove(played by Philip Latham) has been guarding his ashes(after his violent death in the first film) waiting for the proper hosts to resurrect him, which comes with the arrival of the Kents, two couples(played by Francis Mathews, Suzan Farmer, Charles Tingwell, and Barbara Shelley) who stay in the castle overnight after being stranded, much to their later regret... Andrew Keir stars as Father Sandor, a catholic priest who helps the survivors stop Dracula, and save the other's souls...

(Credit, IMDb) Two couples traveling in Eastern Europe decide to visit Karlsbad despite dire local warnings. Left outside the village by a coachman terrified at the approach of night, they find themselves in the local castle and are surprised at the hospitality extended by the sinister Klove.

Although it has been several years since "Count Dracula" (Christopher Lee) was exposed to sunlight and burned to ashes the local villagers still maintain a healthy distance from his castle out of extreme fear. Unfortunately, two British couples have no such constraints and--even though they have been warned by a traveling priest named "Father Sandor" (Andrew Keir) to avoid it at all costs--they decide to stay the night there anyway.

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