Horror of Dracula
by Terence Fisher
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Actor: Carol Marsh, Christopher Lee, Melissa Stribling, Michael Gough, Peter CushingDirector: Terence Fisher
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Jack Asher
Editor: Bill Lenny
Producer: Anthony Hinds
Producer: Anthony Nelson Keys
Producer: Michael Carreras
Writer: Bram Stoker
Writer: Jimmy Sangster
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 82 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-10-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Horror of Dracula
Movie Review: Hammer's Best Horror Movie.
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the top ten Horror movies of all time is this 1958 classic that revolutionized the genre.
Changing the plot drastically from Stoker's novela nd the early Lugosi version,the result is a lightning paced film that is pure,gothic excellence.
All the performances are very well constructed and delivered to add to the film considerably,but the leads create two of the most memorable ever seen in the genre.
Christopher Lee is a truly frightening Count Dracula,more animalistic and imposing than earlier portrayals with an emphasis on sexuality.
Peter Cushing delivers the defintive portrayal of Dracula's arch nemesis,Van Helsing,proving more than a match for the bloodthirsty Count,even engaging in hand to hand combat at one point!
The use of Gore and the emphasis on sex gives the story a more visceral punch that the earlier adaptions lacked and makes for a more powerful experience,that few of it's imitators will understand how to meld as well.
The film's ending is justifiably one of the greatest in film history accompanied and accentuated by the wonderfully,bombastic score by James Bernard.
This is also probally the best film of Horror and Hammer director,Terence Fisher,who creates a wonderfully gothic Technicolor classic.
The only unfortunate thing is the DVD does not do the film justice,offering a so-so Letterbox print of the film and being almost a bare bones release with nothing of interest to the fan.Hopefully,Warners will release a better DVD of this cinema essential in the future.
Summary of Horror of Dracula
Jonathan Harker, a student of vampires, ventures to Dracula's castle and attacks him. The revengeful vampire leaves his dark abode to prey on the family of his attacker's fiancee. The only man able to protect Harker and his fiancee is Dr. Van Helsing, a friend of Harker's. As a fellow-student of vampires, he's determined to destroy Dracula.DVD Features:
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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 Lee removes the monstrous makeup from the earlier film and makes his entrance as an elegant, confident, altogether seductive Dracula, a frightening figure of flashing eyes and erotic allure. Peter Cushing, with his hawklike profile and piercing eyes, turns his rationalist intensity to Van Helsing: man of science as crusading vampire hunter. Director Terence Fisher and screenwriter Jimmy Sangster make a few changes to Bram Stoker's tale; gone are Renfield, Transylvania, howling wolves, and transformations into bats. The Count is an old-world aristocrat firmly ensconced in a castle in England and Van Helsing a crusading vampire hunter who plots his demise with an elaborate plan. This is the first film to really mine the erotic appeal of vampires: Dracula seduces Mina and Lucy like a devil tempting good to the dark side through sex--more suggestive than explicit, but daring for 1958. Lee is electric as the ferocious Count, despite his limited screen time, and Cushing turns Van Helsing into a virtual swashbuckler of a hero, leaping and diving through the climax like an aging action hero. Cushing reprises his role in The Brides of Dracula, while Lee absented himself from the series until 1966's Dracula: Prince of Darkness. --Sean Axmaker
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