Barbara Ewing, Barry Andrews, Christopher Cunningham

It appears that Dracula (Christopher Lee) is on the prowl again after a young girl is found dead -- her neck marked by fangs -- in a small town's church. Though he's been believed dead for a while, th...( read more  read more... )e people of the town instantly finger the vicious vampire. Hoping to get rid of the blood-sucking menace, the Monsignor (Rupert Davies) must perform a ritual at Dracula's castle … but will it stop Dracula before he preys on his next victim?

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Directed by: Freddie Francis

Release Date: February 6, 1969

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  • September 29, 2008
    A pretty standard Hammer offering. The formula is starting to get boring with this being the third film in the Hammer Dracula series.
  • September 29, 2008
    Slightly overrated but it does have great turns by Lee and Bates and a wonderful climax.
  • September 29, 2008
    Superb...scared me rigid as a boy. The way horrors should be...
  • November 18, 2009
    Well thank God he did or there wouldn't have been a movie. I mean, isn't that what he's supposed to do? Rise from the grave? Still a good flick, but then I'm a sucker for vampires.
  • October 7, 2009
    lee returns in this wonderful hammer seqeul
  • July 2, 2009
    Entertaining, gory, and bizarre. I enjoyed it.
  • June 17, 2009
    This was the first Hammer horror movie I've seen and to tell the truth I quite enjoyed it. Solid actin from Christopher Lee even though he only has about four or five lines in the whole movie. The plot was good and the story was exceptional.

    I don't know which Dracula I prefer...( read more) seeing as how both Lee and Lugosi do an amazing job in the movies where they played the vampire. I think that movies like this should be made today because today's horror fferings just aren't cutting it in terms of plot. They are all about the blood and violence.

    The end of this movie is probably the best part where Dracula gets impaled by the cross. For a movie with little blood, that effect looked amazing on camera. I found that this movie was never boring and it was highly entertaining the whole way through. It is suspenseful at times and the filming locations look amazing.

    We need studios like Hammer and Amicus nowadays, they'd keep the horror genre going because American efforts grow old and we have to rely on the British, French, and Australians.

    Overall, I don't see why alot of people rip on this movie because I found it thouroughly entertaining. Definately reccommended.
  • October 29, 2008
    "Dracula Has Risen From The Grave" is one of the lesser entries to Hammer's great Dracula series. Actually, it is my least favorite and yet this is a decent and sufficiently eerie film that fans of the other Hammer Draculas should give a try. This fourth entry to the Dracula seri...( read more)es (the third, if the brilliant "Brides Of Dracula" (1960), which didn't feature Dracula, is not counted) is also the first one not directed by genius Terence Fisher, but by Freddie Francis, the director of "Dr Terror's House Of Horrors" and the least entry to Hammer's Frankenstein series, "The Evil Of Frankenstein". It is therefore no wonder that this does not come near the greatness of its predecessors, and I also liked the next sequel, "Taste The Blood Of Dracula" alot more than this one. Still, the Hammer formula works, and "Dracula Has Risen From The Grave" delivers atmosphere and Gothic eeriness on more than one occasion.

    Christopher Lee is once again brilliantly creepy as Dracula, and the rest of the performances are also good. The film features several familiar faces for fans of British Horror, most prominently Rupert Davis, who is probably most famous for his role in one of the absolute greatest British Horror masterpieces, Michael Reeves' "Witchfinder General" (1968) starring Vincent Price. Davis, a generally great character actor, also played roles in another Vincent Price classic, "The Oblong Box" (1969) and in "Curse Of The Crimson Altar" with Christopher Lee, Boris Karloff And Barbara Steele. Beautiful Veronica Carlson, who was in Hammer's "Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed" is nice to look at in the female lead, and so is Barbara Ewing ("Torture Garden"). Barry Andrews is not too convincing as the hero character, but he isn't bad either. The settings and photography are good, and the atmosphere is mostly eerie, but the suspense is not as constant as in other Dracula films. Also, the focus on faith somehow doesn't fit in too well, and the plot has several holes. Even though one of the lesser Dracula films from Hammer, however, this is definitely a sufficiently eerie film that any Hammer enthusiasts should not miss! Recommended
  • October 23, 2008
    another good one from hammer
  • October 17, 2008
    No thankyou - Not interested

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May 3, 2005
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

There's just not enough of Lee's Dracula. full review

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