Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
After Hammer Studios' tremendous success with The Curse of Frankenstein, they struck a deal to adapt Universal's catalog of classics and set their sights first on Dracula. Christopher Le...( read more
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DVD Release Date: October 1, 2002
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October 26, 2008Along with the 1931 classic, Horror of Dracula is easily one of the best movies available with the Count in a starring role. Its gothic atmosphere is fantastic, and Lee and Cushing are at their best here. Overall, it's epic in the way only Hammer could make it. Definitely a mu...( read more)
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August 8, 2007A great atmosphere, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing fighting it out, beautiful actresses, rubber bats on wires, and all done on a budget which wouldn't even pay for Keanu Reeves' voice coach in a modern production!
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September 27, 2006The best cinematic treatment of Dracula suceeds by ignoring the book almost entirely and creating a fast, scary and beautifully-shot, elegant horror film with great performances from Lee as a nearly wordless Dracula and Cushing as the best Van Helsing ever put on screen.
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May 16, 2009This is actually the first time I?ve seen this or any other Hammer horror film for that matter. Perhaps the film would have seemed a bit more interesting to me if it wasn?t the 50th version of this same story that I?ve seen. The film is basically just another adaptation of the ...( read more)
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July 13, 2007A hammer horror version of the vampire tale, which is simply, quite bad. Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee manage to create characters well enough, but the rest of the cast are awful, the acting bland and dull. Otherwise everything is extremely melodramatic and elaborate, the set...( read more)
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November 1, 2009For all the Dracula movies Ive seen Horror of Dracula is probably my favorite. Even though Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing have squared off many times before this one plays the best. Lee dominates every scene he's in just by his shear presence. One of Hammer's shining moments
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October 18, 2009a nice film from the vault of hammer horror, and a kick starter for christopher lee's career as Dracula!!
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September 27, 2009its dracula ...HAMMER STYLE!!!
a much more faster paced , cut and dry dracula movie, then the bela version..
bloody, rich colours . great acting from both lee and cushing.. -
September 21, 2009Christopher Lee portrays the Count in a bit of a departure from both the novel and earlier films (Harker knows of Dracula's state of being from the get-go and uses his initial entry into the castle to attempt to kill him). More graphic, if only because of the Technicolor, this H...( read more)
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