Dracula Prince Of Darkness Details

Two English couples dare to go travelling through the Carpathian mountains in this superior horror film, one of the best in the Hammer Dracula series. Veteran horror director Terence Fisher brings out the innate sexuality in the tightly plotted story and Christopher Lee is awesome as the dreaded count, despite having no dialogue. The gruesome sequence where the infamous bloodsucker is resurrected in a perverse religious ritual still retains its shock value, with scream queen Barbara Shelley's demise just as memorable. Andrew Keir is no real substitute for Peter Cushing (glimpsed in the prologue lifted from the studio's 1958 Dracula blockbuster), but in every other respect this is a text-book example of top-grade ghoulish horror from Hammer's golden era.

Ingenious rehash of incidents from the original story, largely dissipated by poor colour and unsuitable wide screen.