"The Masters of Menace Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. They're dead but they're alive..."
SYNOPSIS
In London in the 1970s, Scotland Yard police investigators think they have uncovered a case of vampirism. They call in an expert vampire researcher named Van Helsing (an ancestor of the great vampire-hunter himself, no less) to help them put a stop to these hideous crimes. It becomes apparent that the culprit is Count Dracula himself, disguised as a reclusive property developer, but secretly plotting to unleash a fatal virus upon the world. TRAILERS AND CLIPS
MOVIE REVIEW
THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA was a further attempt to modernize gothic horror and make it both more affordable for the studio and more accessible to contemporary viewers. While it thankfully abandons the mod trappings which bogged down the previous film, it also shifts a bit too far away from the obligatory “Hammer-isms” to be completely satisfactory. ...Read More
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