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Post by GL on Sept 29, 2010 10:53:55 GMT -5
 A group of travelers lost in the woods around a feared castle are offered shelter within, leading to the resurrection of the vampire count within and he resumes his bloodlust throughout the area, leading a priest on a mission to stop the madman before he can complete his plans. What did everyone think of this one? |
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Post by GL on Sept 29, 2010 10:54:29 GMT -5
On TV in October on the 1st at 8:00 on Turner Classic Movies.
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Post by GL on Oct 4, 2010 10:24:57 GMT -5
I gotta go with a 3 on this one. Not that it's all that bad of a film, it's just so excruciatingly padded and dragged out that it takes way too long for something to happen. Only in the finale does the film seem to have any kind of momentum or energy, or the characters do anything with any kind of importance to their actions, which is what rises this one up considerably. The castle location is indeed fabulous, the resurrection is one of the better imagined in the series, and there's some fun to be had with the stalking, but the struggle to get there is the big thing.
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Post by The Walking Dude on Oct 7, 2010 5:08:48 GMT -5
Close to being my favourite Hammer film, and most definately receives that honour in the Dracula series. There's a pounding theme that gets me pumped for action,and an important role for one of my country's most beloved actors Charles 'Bud' Tingwall it is his blood that revives the count . Actually i'm so overdue for a rewatch it's not funny |
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Post by GL on Oct 7, 2010 9:45:02 GMT -5
It's just too dull for me in the beginning. Once Dracula is up and out in action, it's a whole lot more interesting and enjoyable, but man, it's torture getting up to that part. 45 minutes in an hour and a half film until he's even seen on-screen for the first time is just way too much time for me, I much prefer the more pounding pace of Has Risen from the Grave, which also has the benefit of the most gore in the series as well to count towards it.
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Post by abraxas on Oct 7, 2010 12:53:59 GMT -5
Well going into the 70s films were a lot slower pace, I might have caught a minute or two of this a long time ago. The Satanic Rites of Dracula is the only Lee Dracula that Iv seen all the way through.
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Post by GL on Oct 8, 2010 9:39:40 GMT -5
Still, if you're spending 45 minutes of a 90 minute film without the main bad guy on-screen, that's just way too long of a phase without something horror-related going on for me to stomach. I know they were slower-paced, but it's still the general principle: I don't accept it in films nowadays, why should I care about it back then?
Especially all the more since Horror of Dracula, Brides of Dracula and Dracula Has Risen from the Grave are all the more faster-paced from the same time-period. Dracula is up, resurrected and out amongst the action quite early on in them, why not here?
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