When Paul carries Lucy's dead body from the lake, her arm reaches out to prevent her from falling.
Lucy's front door has a Yale lock.
Ralph Bates is supposed to wear the actual Dracula's cloak.
The one he is wearing is far shorter than the one Dracula is wearing in the film.
When Paxton and Secker push the slab from the "stone" sarcophagus, the whole structure shakes, betraying its fake, lightweight nature.
During the prologue, Weller trips and falls upon a bed of large, heavy-looking (but evidently fake) "rocks", which wobble all too easily.
Secker tears a piece of wood from a church pew to make a crude wooden stake.
The end of the stake is ragged and splintered.
As the camera cuts to a close-up of the stake over the heart of the vampire, the end of the stake has suddenly become clean and sharply-pointed.
During the prologue Weller hears a series of earsplitting, bloodcurdling screams, which lead him to witness Dracula's demise.
However, whilst impaled on the cross during Dracula Has Risen From The Grave, the Count makes little in the way of noise - gasps rather than ear-piercing shrieks capable of pervading through the dead of night.
When Hargood has forbidden Alice to go out and sends her to her room, he goes back to his newspaper and reads it upside down.
(about 9'30" after beginning) The amount of blood in the goblets changes between shots.
In the Hammer Dracula films, it has been seen that a vampire's exposure to sunlight will cause then to decompose to dust.
However, after Dracula has drained Lucy dry, he dumps her supposedly vampire corpse in a lake, and when Paul finds her the next morning, she has not decomposed into dust.
It is possible that when a vampire drains another one dry, that vampire then reverts back to a human, but it never is explained in this film.
When one walks into a Hammer 'Dracula' film there has to be a realization that the titular monster will be all but reduced to nothing more than a glorified cameo in some areas. I can absolutely see and understand Lee's frustration with the character.
You mean classic Hammer vs these Hammer titles or Hammer in general vs classic horror like the Universals? I grew up with Hammer so I'm predisposed, but once they became available on dvd and blu I started inhaling them like chocolate flavored crack.
Hammer's Frankenstein series was consistently interesting because the films grappled with moral and ethical questions (and because each featured a different monster), but the contemporaneous Dracula series suffered from severe limitations. There was very little you could do with the bloodthirsty count, apart from killing him off in some novel fashion after he'd menaced his victims for an hour and a half.
Peter Sasdy took a turn directing this fifth "Dracula" film in the Hammer series that sees Christopher Lee once again playing Count Dracula, who is revived by an evil disciple(played by Ralph Bates) who had lured three bored(and hypocritical) "proper" English Gentlemen, who bring disaster on themselves and their families as Dracula targets them for destruction by killing his servant, though a climatic confrontation in a church may bring him his final destruction... Clever(if contrived) opening ties in with the ending of the previous film before moving forward a few years.
I first saw this in the mid 90s on a vhs. Revisited it recently.
"Taste the Blood of Dracula" is a Hammer Film at its finest. Even though he doesn't get much to do, Christopher Lee makes a great Dracula.
The plot here moves to Victorian England, Dracula is brought back to life in a black magic ceremony held in an abandoned church. I recall watching this for the first time on late night TV back in the 1980's and I really liked the occult aspect.
After the events from "Dracula Has Risen From The Grave" , 4 elderly snobs are bored with their bourgeois lives and get acquainted with Dracula's servant. When the gentlemen refuse to drink the blood, Count Dracula is resurrected, but his servant dies in the process.
Hammer did nine Dracula or vampire films from 1958 to 1974:Horror of Dracula (1958) The Brides of Dracula (1960) Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) Taste the Blood of Dracula (1969) Scars of Dracula (1970) Dracula AD 1972 (1972) The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) and The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974).Of these nine entries "Taste the Blood of Dracula" is, believe it or not, one of the best, if not the best.
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