The Satanic Rites of Dracula dvd movie.|
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List Price: $7.98 Our Price: $7.98 Features • Color • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : October, 1978 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Christopher Lee throws in the cape |
| The Satanic Rites of Dracula (belatedly released in a cut version as Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride in the US) was the swansong of the Hammer-Lee Dracs, and while not a classic it is a much more interesting attempt to do something new with the material in a modern-day setting than it's predecessor, Dracula AD 1972. Here Dracula is a reclusive Howard Hughes-like tycoon weary of immortality but determined to take the world with him when he goes by unleashing a new and improved Black Death, developed with the help of key government figures who think it's just a bargaining chip to create a new world order. Pitted against him are a couple of British secret service agents whose own boss is one of Dracula's Four Horsemen of the new Apocalypse, a special branch officer and the grandson of Van Helsing and his own granddaughter. The low budget is apparent, but the ideas go some way to compensate (certainly Drac's plan is a more convincing Armageddon than anything Damien Thorn planned in The Final Conflict) and Alan Gibson's direction, though not always successful, shows some imagination.
The extras package is less than impressive here, with only trailers for the UK and US releases and the same Hammer clip show included on Dracula Prince of Darkness, but it is a very respectable widescren transfer of the uncut UK version. |
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