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	History of the Dracula-Movies
		The first stage-adaption of "Dracula" was written by Bram Stoker himself in 1897, but his "Dracula or the Un-Dead" was in contrary to his famous novel a total fiasco.
		In this movie he dies a very unusual vampire-death: immersion in running water, there he rests under the ice of a river until his next resurrection in the year 1968 in "Dracula has risen from the grave".
		Dracula sucks the blood of the children of the 3 gentlemen.
	home.arcor.de /moonlight-shadowcastle/draculamovie.htm (1551 words)

	Bram Stoker's Dracula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The movie version suggests that Dracula is none other than the notorious Vlad Ţepeş ("The Impaler"), a Romanian prince legendary for his cruelty, a connection absent in the original novel.
		The movie opens with Vlad's wife committing suicide, as she believes that he had been killed during one of these wars.
		In the movie, Dracula is speaking Romanian while in Stoker's book he claims to be a Székely, meaning he would have spoken Hungarian.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bram_Stoker's_Dracula (1240 words)

	DRACULA A.D. 1972
		Dracula A.D., is a silly hodgepodge of dank, foggy crypts and Austin Powers-era youth culture.
		Dracula's ring and the vial containing his ashes have been passed down to him; he's been waiting for the perfect moment to resurrect his undead idol.
		Dracula is brought back to life, of course, and the willing Johnny offers up his friends one by one as aperitifs for the Count.
	www.eccentric-cinema.com /cult_movies/dracula_1972.htm (970 words)

	Dracula Films (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dracula enters the Disco Age to pursue the reincarnation of his lost love.
		Dracula is portrayed as a romantic, dashing hero/villain; Lucy is a sexually liberated woman who is Dracula's perfect mate.
		In this made-for-television movie, an eccentric Los Vegas reporter investigates a series of murders that he believes were committed by a vampire.
	www.olemiss.edu /courses/engl205/draculafilm.html (588 words)

	DVD Review - Horror Of Dracula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dracula’s great entrance when the female vampire tries to lure Harker is one such example.
		When Dracula awakes in his coffin from the screams of the female vampire, the European version tinges the image in blue and green tones for the next few shots as the sun sets, giving it an extremely gloomy atmosphere that is so adequate for the scene.
		Warner Home Video is presenting "Horror Of Dracula" in a 1.78:1 aspect ratio on this DVD in a transfer that is enhanced for 16x9 TV sets.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/horror_of_dracula.shtml (1265 words)

	Dracula (1958 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dracula is a 1958 British horror film, and the first of a series of Hammer Horror films inspired by the Bram Stoker novel Dracula.
		Lee returned as Dracula for the rest of the sequels, with the exception of The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, a.k.a.
		This movie is notable for a making a significant change to how vampires are depicted, as it is the first portrayal of vampires having fangs, which has become a mainstay in the genre.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dracula_(1958_film) (812 words)

	Dracula, Has Risen from the Grave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Horror of Dracula (1958) stars Christopher Lee as Dracula, and Peter Cushing as Van Helsing.
		The last we saw of Dracula was in Dracula, Prince of Darkness where he drowned in his moat.
		The scene is a wonderful parody of the Crucifixion, with Dracula impaled on this huge cross, eyes weeping tears of blood, and the priest reciting the Lord's Prayer in Latin.
	www.vampiremovies.co.uk /reviews/draculahrftg.htm (1487 words)

	Dracula: Prince of Darkness
		This movie is a direct sequel to Horror of Dracula, which was the first movie in the Hammer Dracula saga.
		The movie is nicely atmosphereic, as is to be expected from a Hammer movie.
		It lacks the excesses of later movies (like weird '70s dance montages, for example), so you're not drawn out of the movie going, "ugh, that was lame and boring." In fact, while the story is rather light, the action is well paced, with few dull moments.
	www.inverteddungeon.com /Movies/dracpod.php (649 words)

	DVD Review - Dracula - Prince Of Darkness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, the werewolf, and all the other horror staples were revamped and energized by Hammer, but none so completely as Dracula.
		In the first film, "Horror of Dracula" (1958) Christopher Lee shattered the anemic, prissy image of Lugosi’s count with a mixture of ferocity and sensuality lacking from any Dracula before or, arguably, since.
		The experience is akin to sitting down in the living room and watching old home movies as people comment on them, with the notable exception that the people commenting on this home movie were all key players in the film.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/dracula_-_prince_of_darkness.shtml (1191 words)

	Horror of Dracula
		Dracula shows Harker to his room, explains that he has again been called away on business and will not be returning until the following evening, and gives Harker the key to the library.
		Van Helsing renders Dracula’s coffin unusable by “contaminating” it with his crucifix after the vampire kidnaps Mina, and he and Arthur race back to Klausenburg in an effort to catch their foe before he can return to the sarcophagus beneath his castle.
		Adamson’s Dracula effortlessly defeats the entire human cast, then destroys Frankenstein’s monster with equal ease after concluding that he can no longer control it, and is only vanquished himself through an act of ego-driven carelessness on his own part.
	www.1000misspenthours.com /reviews/reviewsh-m/horrorofdracula.htm (1486 words)

	Teleport City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Years after the fact, as taboos have been pushed far further than Hammer could have done in 1958, the film is easier to evaluate on its merits as a film than as a sensation.
		Stoker's Dracula was the first book I ever read that flat-out terrified me. I must have been nine or ten when I first cracked it open, and it kept me up late at night even long after I'd finished reading it by flashlight underneath the covers.
		When Christopher Lee as Dracula shows up, you believe with every inch of your soul that's he going to put the serious hurt on you, not ask you to waltz or listen while he reads some verse to you.
	www.teleport-city.com /movies/dvdjournal/2004/07/horror-of-dracula.html (1804 words)

	Hammer's Dracula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The earlier movies never defined it clearly, and -- with very few exceptions -- the mythologies in later movies are variants of the Hammer interpretation.
		A victim is suspended by his heels over a sarcophagus holding the ashes of Dracula -- the victim's throat is slit and his blood gushes out onto the ashes, reconstituting the dehydrated Prince of Darkness.
		Dracula gets resurrected (unexplained this time) and becomes a CEO in order to foster research on a new and improved bubonic plague – sort of "Bram Stoker meets Tom Clancy" (and loses).
	www.cathuria.com /bcd/bcdracul.htm (1546 words)

	Scars of Dracula DVD review on AudioRevolution.com
		The movie may not be very good, but it is reasonably important in horror movie history, so this presentation is welcome.
		The movie is frustrating because so much of it is so routine, and some of it looks so cheap -- while more attention is paid to the character, the personality, of Dracula than in ANY of the previous Hammer outings.
		It was the last Hammer Dracula with Lee set in the 19th century, the last that could even sort of be linked to the series that began with the classic 'Horror of Dracula' in 1958.
	www.avrev.com /dvd/revs/scarsofdracula.shtml (987 words)

	Taste the Blood of Dracula
		As always, he died in the prior movie (Dracula has Risen from the Grave, for those keeping score), so of course, there have to be some idiots that want to bring him back from the grave...
		He, of course, knows how to get his hand on the remains of Dracula, which just so happens to be in the form of powdered dust (dehydrated Dracula blood, just add more blood, and maybe a bit of water).
		No, the young, broke, moron drinks the blood of Dracula (effectively going in for more than just the titular "taste"), and when he goes into spasms, is killed by the elderly morons.
	www.inverteddungeon.com /Movies/tastedrac.php (526 words)

	THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- HORROR OF DRACULA
		In the late 1950s, the horror movie genre was in something of a state of decline.
		The impact of these three movies was instant, and forever changed the face of the horror genre.
		The movie opens with Jonathan Harker (John Van Eyssen) arriving at Dracula’s castle in the guise of a librarian, in a deceptive plot to destroy the vampire count.
	www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd_review_2002/horror-of-dracula-dvd.htm (883 words)

	Horror of Dracula on DVD reviewed on AudioRevolution.com
		But Dracula, his face smeared with blood, bursts into the room, and in an excitingly-staged, surprisingly energetic fight, disposes of Harker and sweeps out of the room, carrying the girl.
		Cushing returned as Van Helsing in "Brides of Dracula," and later as what can be assumed to be a descendant of this Van Helsing in a pair of Dracula movies reuniting him with Christopher Lee.
		The first scene in the library, when Dracula enters with a leering, blood-smeared face, is one of the greatest and most influential shock scenes in movie history.
	www.avrev.com /dvd/revs/horrorofdracula.shtml (1437 words)

	Dracula, Prince of Darkness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He takes the box of Dracula's ashes (which he presumably collected after his destruction in Horror of Dracula) and empties the ashes into the empty coffin.
		Dracula is inexplicably shaken up and they realize that he cannot cross running water.
		Dracula's role is minimal, and he never speaks, so he is not nearly as formidable a foe as in other movies.
	www.vampiremovies.co.uk /reviews/draculapod.htm (1681 words)

	Classic-Horror Review of Horror of Dracula (1958)
		Changed to Horror of Dracula for the US release (to prevent confusion as Bela Lugosi’s Dracula was still playing in the theaters), this film put Hammer on the map.
		Never one to be sedated, the vampire (played for the first time by Christopher Lee) voyages to Harker’s hometown and starts pillaging and killing his family members.
		Horror of Dracula is one of those horror gems that come around once in a lifetime… or at least as many times as Lee decides to wear a cape.
	classic-horror.com /reviews/horrordrac.shtml (703 words)

	Transylvania The Legend by Andrei Tamas
		The novel Dracula wasn't a huge success until the 1931 Dracula movie starring the Hungarian Bela Lugosi (the guy in the Ed Wood movie).
		Dracula was considered by some as a product of a diseased mind.
		1958 Hammer Films in Great Britain initiates a new wave of interest in vampires with the first of it's "Dracula" films, released in the United States as the "Horror of Dracula." First issue of "Famous Monsters of Filmland" signals a new interest in horror films in the Untied States.
	members.aol.com /atamas/transylvania.htm (3253 words)

	After Midnight - The Return of Dracula (1958) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Brief description: Dracula steals the identity of a Czech artist and travels to America, where he seeks to extend his rein of terror in a small town.
		Most of the Dracula cliches are there - the dodgy accent, the evening wear, the women in white and even the vampire expert who everyone thinks is crazy until he proves them wrong.
		Extra notes: It's claimed that this movie is "among the best Dracula films ever made", but that's hardly remarkable, since most Dracula films were shot on very low budgets and feature people who couldn't get acting jobs with the big studios.
	odin.prohosting.com /after12/movies/dracreturn.htm (251 words)

	Home Theater & Sound -- Taste the Blood of Dracula - ***1/2
		Eager to cash in on the movie’s success, Hammer produced a series of sequels that took Dracula into the 20th century on screen, and up to 1972 in release dates.
		The shooting was done in fl and white, with CG patches of red for blood and Dracula’s cape, as well as color tints such as those typically incorporated in movies from the 1920s.
		The sound is inferior to that of the other movie, being restricted in both dynamic and frequency range.
	www.hometheatersound.com /dvd/taste_blood_of_dracula.htm (826 words)

	HORROR OF DRACULA
		Even with Lee's charismatic turn as Dracula, it is Cushing — one of the finest, most underrated actors in English language cinema — who carries the film with his intelligent, energetic portrayal of the Count's great nemesis.
		Because of budgetary constraints, in fact, many classic elements of the Dracula story had to be dropped; the real reason the Count never turns into a mist or a bat in this version is because it was simply cheaper for him not to have these powers.
		(The latter was used as a pre-titles sequence for 1966's Dracula — Prince Of Darkness.) Any "monster kid" who grew up watching horror movies on TV in the '60s and '70s has these sequences emblazoned in their memory forever.
	www.eccentric-cinema.com /cult_movies/horror_dracula.htm (1160 words)

	Horror Bob Presents: The Horror Review - Egregious Gurnow's Review of "Dracula (Horror of Dracula)" (1958)
		We watch as Lucy eagerly anticipates Dracula’s entry into her bedroom (Cushing’s portrayal of the Count generated countless fan requests asking to be granted the eternal kiss from the actor).
		Fisher transverses Dracula’s ancestry, traditionally set in Transylvania, by placing his antagonist in a nearby town which is accessible by carriage, thus localizing the “curse” of Dracula.
		Terence Fisher created his radical version of Dracula with the intention of breaching standardized ideals and preconceptions, not only concerning the figure of Dracula and how to depict such a character and his subsequent tale, but also by forcing his audience to forego their notions of acceptable morality and the contemporary mindset regarding religion.
	www.horrorreview.com /old/eghorrorofdracula1958.html (1082 words)

	Dracula (1958) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The most probable explanation is that it is in fact the top of Dracula's carriage, and the shot was originally filmed for the scene a few minutes later when the carriage rushes past Van Helsing on his first trip to the castle.
		Christopher Lee makes an interesting Dracula and Peter Cushing is excellent as Van Elsing but the pace of the film is much too slow even though many elements of the novel have been compressed or left out.
		Unlike the Frank Langella romanticized "Dracula" of 1979 (with a fabulous John Williams score and Laurence Olivier as Van Elsing), this version, while satisfying enough on a Hammer film level, is less than satisfying as an example of horror film at its zenith.
	french.imdb.com /rg/title-lhs/title-next/title/tt0051554 (636 words)

	Movie Info for Dracula on MSN Movies
		Despite the static nature of the final scenes, Dracula is a classic among horror films, with Bela Lugosi giving the performance of a lifetime as the erudite Count (both Lugosi and co-star Frye would forever after be typecast as a result of this film, which had unfortunate consequences for both men's careers).
		Compare this Dracula to the simultaneously filmed Spanish-language version, which makes up for the absence of Lugosi with a stronger sense of visual dynamics in the lengthy dialogue sequences.
		In 1999, a special rerelease of Dracula was prepared featuring a new musical score written by Philip Glass and performed by The Kronos Quartet.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=3133 (250 words)

	Frank Showalter » Dracula (1958) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Home of seldom-read movie reviews and snarky pop-culture commentary.
		Dracula (or Horror of Dracula as it's known in the USA) is fantastic.
		My only criticism, and this is as much a testament to the film's greatness as it is a flaw, is that the film is too short.
	www.fshowalter.com /movie-reviews/dracula-1958 (258 words)

	Dracula on Hollywood.com
		Based on the Victorian horror novel written by Bram Stoker in 1897, about the vampire Dracula, who is on a quest to be eternally reunited with the one woman he ever loved.
		Dracula travels from Transylvania to London to find the young woman who is the double image of the love he lost centuries earlier
		Count Dracula, the Prince of Darkness, is dead and he's loving it but he's also in for some ego-puncturing problems and horrific surprises never encountered by Bela Lugosi or Gary Oldman.
	search.hollywood.com /movies/Dracula (344 words)

	Amazon.ca: Dracula Has Risen From The Grave: DVD: Freddie Francis,Veronica Carlson,Christopher Cunningham,Barbara ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The eroticism is stronger than in previous Hammer Draculas, the palpably electric blood-lust marking the movie as a high-point before the series' gradual decline, beginning with Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970).
		Dracula, played by Christopher Lee, is accidentally resurrected from the dead by the dripping blood of a priest.
		Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1969) has Christopher Lee reprising his role as the ultimate blood-sucking creature of the night, which is kind of strange as in the last film, Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966), he was destroyed...or so we thought.
	www.amazon.ca /Dracula-Risen-Grave-Freddie-Francis/dp/B0001FVE68 (2282 words)

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