Taste The Blood Of Dracula
1969
A group of bourgeois Victorian gentlemen decide to resurrect Dracula (Christopher Lee) for a laugh. Lord Courtley (Ralph Bates) ends up dead and Dracula seeks revenge on the others via their precious daughters. Mmmmm, tasty!" Read more
| Starring | Christopher Lee, Linda Hayden, Anthony Corlan, Geoffrey Keen |
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| Director | Peter Sasdy |
| Genres | Horror |
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Taste The Blood Of Dracula
A group of bourgeois Victorian gentlemen decide to resurrect Dracula (Christopher Lee) for a laugh. Lord Courtley (Ralph Bates) ends up dead and Dracula seeks revenge on the others via their precious daughters. Mmmmm, tasty!"
| Starring | Christopher Lee, Linda Hayden, Anthony Corlan, Geoffrey Keen, John Carson, Peter Sallis |
|---|---|
| Director | Peter Sasdy |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 27 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Horror |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 21 Jun 2004 Production year: 1969 |
| Format | DVD |
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Three Victorian gentlemen get more than they bargained for when they indulge in Satanism for fun with the assistance of Ralph Bates, a Hammer regular in the early seventies. They inadvertently resurrect Count Dracula (Christopher Lee), who sends their sons and daughters on a killing spree. Although Lee is given little to do apart from look suavely menacing, his fourth appearance as the Transylvanian bloodsucker is rather unusual in one respect: he metamorphoses into a caped hero battling the hypocrisy of Victorian family values in this flamboyantly romantic grim fairy tale, with a genuinely imaginative, cut-glass ending.
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Depraved Lord Courtley (Bates) involves three other rich Victorian thrill-seekers in the resurrection of the... read more on Time Out
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6 out of 8 people found this review helpful
A fine example
Always been a big fan of Hammer Horror and this is one of the best of the Dracula series.A travelling salesman(Roy Kinnear) comes accross the Count(Christopher Lee as always) impaled on a giant gold crucifix(as the previous film ended) - he collects the cloak,ring and the dried blood and returns to England.
There we meet three late Victorian gentlemen - Hargood(Geoffrey Keen),Carson(Jonathen Secker) and Paxton(Peter Sallis) - by day they are respectable Church-goers but at night go to the East End for 'Charity' work - of course this means they go whoring in brothels but have found their experiences becoming jaded - they seek new excitments.
This arrivies in the form of Lord Courtley(Ralph Bates)a dissolute aristocrat who dabbles in black magic and realises he can get the 3 to buy the goods from Kinnear and summon up Dracula.
The 3 are dubious but Courtley persuades them and in a disused churchyard the summoning takes place - the 3 realise they are way out of their depths and when Courtlery dies they flee.
What they havn'r realised is that Dracula has returned and blames them for Courtley's death - he seeks them out to destroy them...
Direrected by Hammer regular Peter Sadsy the film mines a deep vein of Victorian hypocricy - Hargood rules his family with an iron fist preaching Christian values and one the films most effective threads is how Dracula uses the the children of the 3 to achieve his ends - corrupting them so the Fathers can see the direct consequence of their actions.
Lee is exellent as always(but not given enough screen time) and there is fine support from Linda Haydon(who was in the notorious Baby Love and so effective in Blood on Satan's Claw) as Hargood's daughter Alice who Dracula uses to trap and then destroy the 3 Fathers.
There is almost a Greek tragic element to it as the thing they hold most dear is the thing that kills them - it can also be read as the bourgious dabbling in forces beyond their control and unleashing a power that will destroy them.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
THE BEST DRACULA SEQUEL.
If, like myself you are an avid Hammer horror fan then you are going to love the fourth Dracula sequel starring Christopher Lee. Taste the blood of Dracula in my opinion is one of the best Dracula sequels after the 1958 film the Horror of Dracula which also stars Christopher lee as the famous count. The story follows three gentlemen in Victorian London, pillars of the community Hargood (Geoffey Keen), Secker (John Carson) and Paxton (Peter Salis) travel to a brothel in the east end, where they induldge in hedonism disguised as charity work. They meet charismatic lord Courtley (the great Ralph Bates), who introduces them to Weller (Roy Kinear) and persuades them to buy Dracula's remains. In a disused church, Courtley performs a black mass to raise Dracula, but Hargood, Secker and Paxton panic and murder the young aristocrat. Courtleys corpse trans mutates into Dracula, and the vampire lord swears vengeance on his murdered disciple. This film boasts a fantastic cast which also stars Linda Hayden as Alice and Isla Blair as lucy. Also look out for Madeline Smith in one of her first Hammer roles. The Gothic sets are brilliant ( especially the church and grave yard), and to finish of is the soundtrack composed by James Bernard which brings the whole film into one. So if you really love the Dracula series then this film is the one for you.
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Taste The Blood Of Dracula
A group of bourgeois Victorian gentlemen decide to resurrect Dracula (Christopher Lee) for a laugh. Lord Courtley (Ralph Bates) ends up dead and Dracula seeks revenge on the others via their precious daughters. Mmmmm, tasty!"...
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