Dracula (Hammer film series)


Dracula is the title of several horror-adventure film series centered on Count Dracula, who is accidentally resurrected, bringing with him a plague of vampirism, and the ensuing efforts of heroic Van Helsing family to stop him.

Hammer Horror film series (1958–1974)

The original series of films consisted of nine installments, which starred iconic horror actors Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as Count Dracula and Doctor Van Helsing respectively. The series of films is part of the larger Hammer Horror series.
Production of Dracula began at Bray Studios on 17 November 1957 with an investment of £81,000. As Count Dracula, Lee fixed the image of the fanged vampire in popular culture. Christopher Frayling writes, "Dracula introduced fangs, red contact lenses, décolletage, ready-prepared wooden stakes and – in the celebrated credits sequence – blood being spattered from off-screen over the Count's coffin." Lee also introduced a dark, brooding sexuality to the character, with Tim Stanley stating, "Lee's sensuality was subversive in that it hinted that women might quite like having their neck chewed on by a stud".
In 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine saw Dracula ranked the 65th best British film ever. Empire magazine ranked Lee's portrayal as Count Dracula the 7th Greatest Horror Movie Character of All Time.
FilmRotten Tomatoes
Dracula89%
The Brides of Dracula75%
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Dracula Has Risen from the Grave80%
Taste the Blood of Dracula67%
Scars of Dracula33%
Dracula A.D. 197222%
The Satanic Rites of Dracula20%
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires40%
Count Dracula
Vampir-Cuadecuc
Dracula and Son80%

Jonathan Harker begets the ire of Count Dracula after he accepts a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses, forcing his colleague Dr. Van Helsing to destroy the predatory villain when he targets Harker's loved ones.
Following the death of Count Dracula, the film continues the adventures of Dr. Van Helsing as he faces a different set of vampires, the Baron and Baroness Meinster of Transylvania.
The Kents, after arriving at a tiny hamlet in the Carpathian Mountains, are diverted to the former castle of Count Dracula, where his former followers seek to use their blood to allow him to rise from the grave once more.
While trying to exorcise Castle Dracula, the Monsignor inadvertently accidentally brings the former Count Dracula back from the dead. Once awakened, Dracula follows the Monsignor back to his hometown, preying on the holy man's beautiful niece Maria and her friends
After three distinguished English gentlemen accidentally resurrect Count Dracula, unknowingly killing a disciple of his in the process, the Count seeks to avenge his dead servant by making the trio die at the hands of their own children.
After a bat's blood drops on his ashes, Dracula rises again to trouble Simon and Sarah, a couple on a lookout for Paul, who had mysteriously disappeared a while back.
After Van Helsing despatches Dracula to his grave, the dark lord is raised by Johnny Alucard in 1972, modern London. When the swinging trendies of London decide to experiment with a little devil-worshipping, the Count decides to move to his own bloody groove, preying on a group of young partygoers that includes the descendant of his nemesis, Van Helsing, and her grandfather.
After an expert vampire researcher is hired by the British Secret Service to investigate the mysterious death of an agent who died while working to expose a satanic cult led by Chin Yang, who seek to use Mia Martin to summon back Dracula to help develop a new strain of bubonic plague, with the evil intention of annihilating all life on Earth, they turn to Lorrimer Van Helsing and his granddaughter for assistance.
Professor Van Helsing and his son are hired later in 1904 after giving a lecture at a Chinese University to take on a group of seven sword-wielding vampires wearing gold masks, resurrected by Count Dracula.
In addition to the Hammer Film Productions series, Christopher Lee reprises his role as Count Dracula in the Spanish-Italian-German-British Count Dracula, produced by Harry Alan Towers, in the French Dracula and Son, produced by Alain Poiré, and in the American stop motion-animated Frankenweenie, produced by Tim Burton and Allison Abbate.
Count Dracula, a grey-haired vampire who regains his youth by dining on the blood of maidens, is pursued in London and Transylvania by Professor Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, and Quincey Morris after he victimizes them and their loved ones.
It seems Dracula's son Ferdinand. Years later, they reunite again at the premiere of one such film, where they meet and fall in love with the same woman.

Potential ''Anno Dracula'' film

Upon publishing extracts of their screenplay for Anno Dracula in an updated version of the first book in the series, author Kim Newman revealed the film would use the likeness of Peter Cushing to represent the severed head of the deceased Van Helsing, establishing elements of the Hammer Productions Dracula film series as the backdrop for the film adaptation's events, specifically an imagined alternate ending to the 1958 Dracula film. The fourth book in the series, subtitled, follows the character of the same name originally introduced in Dracula A.D. 1972.

Feature films

Cast and characters


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