“As I've mentioned before in one of my reviews, it's somewhat ironic the way that most of the best films adapted from the novelĀ Dracula have very little to do with the actual plot …”
“Hammer Films version of Dracula.”
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My Top Vampire Films
by Captain_Couth
“I couldn't do it! I just couldn't make this list and leave Lee off it. After all I named my daughter for him. I think the first film is undoubtedly the strongest in the Hammer …”
Part of Hammer Studio's reboot of the Universal horror series.
The U.K. release is called Dracula. The film's title was changed in the U.S. to Horror of Dracula because in the U.S. Universal Studios owned the right to the film title Dracula.
The bloodshot contact lenses that Christopher Lee wore in the film bothered him a great deal throughout the production.
The first film of the Count Dracula/Hammer series.