Dracula A.D. 1972
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Movie Reviews of Dracula A.D. 1972
Movie Review: Im in love with Stephanie Beacham!!! Amazing bust!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have had a huge crush on Stephanie Beacham ever since I first saw this movie. What a beautiful face. What
glamourous hair, what an incredible body. She is amazing. I had always been aware of Miss Beacham, but my
crush began when I saw Dracula AD 1972 on VHS in 1994. At the climax of the film, she wears the sexiest white gown ever shown in a horror film. Amazing
Someone requested that I go into more detail about the plot of the movie.
The plot is great, thoiugh it does reuse some ideas from Taste the Blood of Dracula. But thats no crime.
The fights are exciting. Peter Cushing is fantastic as always. Since he is playing the grandson (Lorimer)
of the original Van Helsing, he plays him slightly differently. He cauld have just done the same old shtick, but he goes the extra mile. (I remember the day he died, it made big international news.) Stephanie Beacham has a wonderful softness to her. Her hair, face, figure, voice and wardrobe all posses this quality. Christopher Neame is good as the villain "Alucard" a descendent of one of Draculas relatives. Caroline Munro has a small part, but is good. Lee is kept off camera a little too much, but just a little.
Like the other Hammer Draculas, more obscure vampire legends are utilized here. They cant cross rushing water and anything that is "symbolically" pure is fatal to a vampire.
My only gripe is about the "timeline" in which this film is set. The opening prologue is set in 1872 and depicts the final violent deaths of both Dracula and Lawrence VanHelsing. For purposes of continuity, this makes no sense. The first film in the series Horror of Dracula was set in 1885. (the book is set in 1887) Each sequel that followed almost always gave you an update on how many months had passed since the last film took place. Scars of Dracula, the film released just prior to Dracula 1972, took place in the early 1900s (modern
conveniences such as electrical fixtures are seen. Modern guns and reflectors are shown. (there has always been some debate about the timeframe of Scars, but thats for a different review) The final film in the series, Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires, shows Lawrence and his son Leland (presumably Lorimer's father)
alive and well in 1904. So this must be some parallel universe or something.
Actually, Producer Michael Carreras has commented on this mistake, and admits that it is just that; a mistake.
Carreras also admits that, though such issues were not as important to fans back then, they should have
been more careful. So at least Hammer noticed. I recommend that any of you "timeliners" out there just ignore this obvious mistake and place the 1872 prologue after Seven Golden Vampires where it belongs.
Movie Review: dracula comes to the 70's and finds vampires never change
Summary: 5 Stars
i first saw this movie late night on the c.b.s. friday night movie and thought it was great,so when i found it in a 2 for 20 bin at the store i picked it up along with the scars of dracula,and i must say i still like dracula a.d. 1972. it is fast paced got some good scares and a few laughs in it also.
in the late 1890's dracula and his old foe van helsing are fighting on top of a run away coach in the english country. the coach wreaks and as is always the case in the hammer movies dracula dies in great form,this time inpaled by a broken wagon wheel,and van helsing also dies . as the two are put to rest a servent of draca's takes some of his ashes and his ring ,so we know that this first 5 mins. of the movie will not be the end of dracula.
flash forward to 1972 and a young decendent of the servent of dracula gets his "groove" friends to join him in a rite that brings back our favorite pain in the neck. but as fate would have it one of the "groove" friends is the granddauter of van helsing, and enter peter cushing again as the son of the dead older van helsing, and before you can say "can you dig it" we have ourself a movie. nothing great but it is so much fun seeing cushing and lee together again and battleing for the who knows how many times . they have such a great on screen and i'm told off screen friendship that they make any movie they are in together that much better.
turn down the lights and get ready for some good creepy fun from hammer stuidos
Movie Review: My Favorite in the Hammer/Dracula Series
Summary: 5 Stars
London{1872} Marks the end of The Battle Between Professor Lawrence Van Helsing and Count Dracula Atop of a Speeding Carriage through Hyde Park until It Collides with a Tree and Van Helsing is thrown from the Coach. Dracula However Struggles to remove A Piece of Broken Carriage Wheel in Which one of the Spokes is Impaled through His Heart Seconds Later Dracula is Dust And The Great Van Helsing Dies Alongside of The Body....
London{1972} 100 Years Later We come out of the Period of the Previous Dracula Films and go into Modern day London With a Group of teenagers Who are Bored with Normal Teenage Life So For a Laugh they Decide Have a fake Black Mass Ritual in the Same Church where 100 years Ago Lawrence Van Helsing was Buried but Everything Goes Wrong and They Accidently Resurect Count Dracula And one of the Teenagers Johnny Alucard becomes His Right Hand Man once Arisen He Decides to Take Revenge on The House of Van Helsing By Making Lawrence Van Helsing's Grandson's Grandaughter A Vampire But A Decendent of the Original Van Helsing Picks up his Trail And the Battle Begins over Good And Evil and Sets Up for The Final Sequel Count Dracula And His Vampire Bride - 1974
"Horror of Dracula" was good But this was Alot more Fun to Watch
this is my Favorite In Hammer's Dracula Series and The Modern
London Idea only Worked once The Next in the Series The one I Have Mentioned Above Was Kind of Lame but Intresting
Movie Review: It's about time!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This has got to be one of the cheesiest movies that Hammer ever made and it's great! You take a bunch of young people playing at being hippies,add a bit of reconstituted Dracula and voila you have this movie! I think the whole idea of this movie,Dracula coming back to 'life' in modern times, is very interesting and well done. It captures the age in which it takes place perfectly. I am a huge Hammer fanatic and this film is in my top five of all time favorite movies from that studio.I have been waiting forever for this movie to be released on DVD.
The people who think it is insipid have got to be deaf,dumb, and blind.
Movie Review: Are You People Blind ?
Summary: 5 Stars
There are some nimrods that consider Satanic Rites of Dracula better then this one well I don't Know what the person was drinking This is the Best One I Like It Because Hammer did Something new with Hammer's Dracula Series "Modern Day London" and you see it worked Plus Peter Cushing comes back as Van Helsing. I Liked Horror of Dracula, Dracula Prince of Darkness,
Dracula Has Risen From The Grave and Dracula A.D. 1972
STAY AWAY FROM SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA IT SUCKSSS DRACULA A.D. 1972 SHOULD HAVE ENDED THE SERIES