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The best late Dracula
Having recently watched the rather poor 'Scars of Dracula' I wasn't expecting much from this, the last of the Hammer Dracula films to star Christopher Lee. How refreshing to find this is a vast improvement in every respect and I would have given it 3 and 1/2 stars if it had been possible. <
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>Starting like an espionage film with Torrance (William Franklyn) and Inspector Murray (Michael Coles) investigating an MI6 agents capture and torture by a mysterious group. The group it turns out consist of some the most eminent people in the country (the UK). Of course Dracula is at the heart of matters. Dracula keeps himself out of view using the cover of a property development company. He is the head of the company D D Denham. Scotland Yard of course call in Prof. Lorimar Van Helsing and soon we are into more standard Hammer territory. <
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>The other reason the film is so much better than say 'Scars of Dracula' is the return of Peter Cushing as Van Helsing. Once again Christopher Lee's Dracula has an opponent worthy of mention. Cushing delivers another typically intense performance. <
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>OK so this isn't a touch on 'Dracula' (aka Horror of Dracula) or even the first sequel with Christopher Lee 'Dracula Prince of Darkness', but it is far better than I expected, and at the right price I wouldn't hesitate to buy it. <
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The Final Showdown
This came on the tail end of Hammer studios last attempts to regenerate the magic that began with "The Curse of Frankenstein" and "The Horror of Dracula", so I wasn't expecting a masterpiece. <
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>No matter how absurdly cheesy and ridiculous these movies got--and boy, did they--they never lost a certain magic, a black erotism, an innovative take on good and evil, the former represented by the genuinely nice but tough Peter Cushing/Van Helsing and the masterfully evil, pimped out Count Dracula played by absolute master Christopher Lee. And how can you turn down these voluptuous 70's, disco hip, ultra-cleavaged female vampires? <
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>The plot of this one is absolutely irredeemable and, yes, worthy of the most scathing and mocking criticism. I still liked it though; the Frank Zappa/Satanist Guards with Fro Action, Dracula's sorta vague and haphazard attempt to destroy the world with..petri dishes? And the indispensable Professor Julian, obviously an actor who memorized some Lovecraft between scenes, spouting off about obscene rites and repeating his assertion that Dracula's plot will leave out "nothing too vile!", getting himself into such a frenzy that Van Helsing has to b**chslap him a few times to get him straight. <
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>And the scene in Dracula's new digs, where he runs his Satanic empire with a false Romanian accent: not even bothering to take off his cape! When Van Helsing enters and they stare at each other, the whole lineage of the series and the fury right there between them, separated only by a mysterious lamplight that does nothing to disguise Dracula's face at all...Good vs. Evil. Magnificent. <
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>Of all the ways for this Shaft of Counts to go out, it had to be bramble bushes. That I had a problem with, but hey. Van Helsing took painstaking care that he was dead--he even stole his ring! Great movie.

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unimpressive
I thought I was ordering the Brides of Dracula under a different title. I was not impressed with this movie. After viewing it I can see why I never heard of it.