Scars of Dracula
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Movie Reviews of Scars of Dracula
Movie Review: Scars a moderate scare
Summary: 3 Stars
If you are a fan of Hammer and Christopher Lee and you know what it takes to bring the count back again, this is a fun if not good flick. I recently added this as one of the movies I needed to complete the Hammer Dracula series.
Once again the count needs to have a revival story and they make it convienient to bring him back. They also have to find a new way to kill him but of course this is not the last movie in the "series".
Acting is alright but the story kinda wanders. It comes back together loosely to "tie things up" at the end. At least until the count comes back...
Movie Review: Ok better than Taste the blood of Dracula - 1970
Summary: 3 Stars
this is ok but one part they messed up. In Taste the Blood of Dracula he falls on the alter in the Chapel and decomposes to dust that is in London.... Here we begin in Transylvania and Dracula remains are spread over More like a Rock and the most fake looking bat comes and spits blood on his remains thats it and he rises agian and the story starts afreshMovie Review: OBSESSED
Summary: 3 Stars
AFTER BELA LUGOSI THEN THERE WAS CHRISTOPHER LEE. 2 MAJOR BLOOD SUCKERS. SCARS OF DRACULA IS ONE OF THE BEST. LOVE THE SCENE WHEN HE WENT OFF ON HIS VAMPIRE COMPANION FOR GETTING READY TO EAT HIS SNACK. THEY DON'T MAKE EM LIKE THIS ANYMOREMovie Review: The Count clocks on for another night on the treadmill
Summary: 2 Stars
The budgets were hitting rock bottom and the formula getting tired by the time Hammer persuaded Christopher Lee to don the cape yet again for 1970's Scars of Dracula their second Dracula outing of the year after the superior Taste the Blood of Dracula. Not particularly bad though awfully overfamiliar, this has the feel of everyone clocking on to work at a treadmill as yet another unwary (and in this case accidental) traveller finds himself shunned by tight-lipped superstitious locals (well, Michael Ripper and a couple of extras) and soon regretting taking advantage of the Count's hospitality in the first half while in the second half his brother (a young and miscast Dennis Waterman) and romantic interest Jenny Hanley go through much of the same routine in the second as they go in search of him. There's an effectively nasty surprise waiting for the villagers in the church after their early attempt to burn the Count out of house and home and there's an engagingly matter of fact just-another-day-at-work sequence where Patrick Troughton's servant discards the remnants of one of his master's unwanted brides with a hacksaw and an acid bath but this is more notable for upping the violence than improving the quality.
Anchor Bay's Region 1 DVD offers an interesting package of extras - audio commentary by Christopher Lee, Roy Ward Baker and Marcus Hearn, stills and poster gallery, double-bill trailer for Scars of Dracula + The Horror of Frankenstein, and the UK theatrical trailer. Most copies also contain a second disc with a 50-minute documentary The Many Faces of Christopher Lee, produced for UK video in the early 90s, which has the star running through his favorite anecdotes. Be warned that this second disc also includes two very odd middle-of-the-road music videos...
Movie Review: Very average
Summary: 2 Stars
If I could have given 2.5 stars it would have got an extra 1/2 of a star. I am a lover of Hammer horror films, but having seen this recently it really is rather poor.
Dennis Waterman is hopelessly miscast in a sort of romantic upper class leading role. He is one of two brothers who are pitted against the Count. There are two main problems with this film. Firstly it was made in 1970 and it has an early 70's feel to it, which isn't a good thing. Secondly there was no Peter Cushing or even somebodyelse to replace the Van Helsing character. Consequently the Counts opponents appear weak and a lot of believability (if you can such a thing in a Hammer film!) is lost. Christopher Lee himself was quoted as saying this was one of the weaker films of the series.
None of Hammers films had huge budgets, but because of this films other failings, you tend to notice the poor special effects. By comparison to the other films in the series this is certainly one of the weakest. If you want to buy the Christopher Lee Dracula films the first is by far and away the best, and one of the best Hammer films ever made. The 2nd film Dracula Prince Of Darkness is pretty good. I haven't seen any of the others recently.
There isn't much on the plus side for this film, but James Bernards score, as always, is very good. If you really do want want this film you would be better buying the 5 film Hammer boxed set it appears in, where at least you get The Devil Rides out as well, which IS a classic Hammer film.