(http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l79/RCMerchant/3571582807_3522717c58.jpg)I just rewatched this the other night. The first time I saw it was on the CBS LATE MOVIE in the mid-70's:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CfpCf-wWeY
Chris Lee is back in black and rolling in the red in this 5th installment in the Hammer Dracula series.
Plot: Three old degenerates are jaded with whore houses and booze and yearn for a new thrill. (I guess they didn't have bunji jumping or LSD back then.) So they hook up with Satanist Ralph (HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN,DR.JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE) Bates who dares them to particapate in a Black Mass involving-well-tasting the blood of Dracula. When they get down to the nitty gritty,all three of the old farts turn chicken sh!t and Ralph does the dirty deed himself -and drinks a goblet of Dracula's blood. Bad move on his part. He's dead-and magically transforms into the Count,who proceeds to wreack havoc on buxom Hammer babes.
I've seen all the Hammer Dracula filmsthis is a new fav--lotsa fun! A good effect-Chris's eyes turn entirly red in one scene-not bloodshot-just pure red. Real creepy! :buggedout:
If yer a fan of Hammer films (and who isn't?)or Dracula films or Chris Lee-this is a keeper!
This trailer is much murkier than the film itself-done in the garish Hammer style!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSd0RGO1pds
I have never seen this one B4, Lucky though - someone uploaded the movie on youtube.
I'm gona watch it tonight. Thanks for the info Bela. :thumbup:
Seen it; I like all the Hammer CHRISTOPHER LEE Draculas... though that series seemed to devolve... TASTE THE BLOOD is 1970, ergo, late... that lead guy, wasn't he from DR. JECKYL & SISTER HYDE...?
Quote from: Allhallowsday on August 06, 2009, 10:25:00 PM
Seen it; I like all the Hammer CHRISTOPHER LEE Draculas... though that series seemed to devolve... TASTE THE BLOOD is 1970, ergo, late... that lead guy, wasn't he from DR. JECKYL & SISTER HYDE...?
Yes- He turned into Martine Bestwick in that film. If I turned into her=I'd have sex with myself on a daily basis. ( Though I do that anyway latley... :lookingup:)
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 06, 2009, 10:53:47 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on August 06, 2009, 10:25:00 PM
Seen it; I like all the Hammer CHRISTOPHER LEE Draculas... though that series seemed to devolve... TASTE THE BLOOD is 1970, ergo, late... that lead guy, wasn't he from DR. JECKYL & SISTER HYDE...?
Yes- He turned into Martine Bestwick in that film. If I turned into her=I'd have sex with myself on a daily basis. ( Though I do that anyway latley... :lookingup:)
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Quote from: venomx on August 06, 2009, 06:03:30 PM
I have never seen this one B4, Lucky though - someone uploaded the movie on youtube.
I'm gona watch it tonight. Thanks for the info Bela. :thumbup:
Hopefully it's still their I wanna check this out....
I bought all the Chistopher Lee and/or Peter Cushing DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN, and MUMMY DVDs and have watched each of them several times. Real good stuff for a rainy Saturday afternoon.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 06, 2009, 10:53:47 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on August 06, 2009, 10:25:00 PM
Seen it; I like all the Hammer CHRISTOPHER LEE Draculas... though that series seemed to devolve... TASTE THE BLOOD is 1970, ergo, late... that lead guy, wasn't he from DR. JECKYL & SISTER HYDE...?
Yes- He turned into Martine Bestwick in that film. If I turned into her=I'd have sex with myself on a daily basis. ( Though I do that anyway latley... :lookingup:)
OH MY GAWD!!!!!!!!!!! Too much information. Even here, there is a limit.
By the by, could someone smell this boil on my wank and tell me if it smells like grapes?
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I have this on a digitally restored 4 movie set (Yay Warner Bros!) but haven't watched it yet. What I did watch was it's stoner cousin Dracula AD 1972 which is just great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U6KOGFWXFg&feature=channel_page
-Jimmybob
Quote from: jimmybob on August 07, 2009, 08:28:48 PM
I have this on a digitally restored 4 movie set (Yay Warner Bros!) but haven't watched it yet. What I did watch was it's stoner cousin Dracula AD 1972 which is just great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U6KOGFWXFg&feature=channel_page
-Jimmybob
The set of which you speak is how I watched TASTE the BLOOD...! :thumbup:
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-Jimmybob
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 06, 2009, 05:52:54 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CfpCf-wWeY
Man, that brings back so many memories. They'd never have something like that today - you'd get a 10 second commercial for Big Brother 11 or something instead. And when the movie would start, there wouldn't be any banner ad's popping up, no network logo in the corner, no "TV 14 MA" in the other corner. And as long as you had the antenna pointed in just the right direction, you'd even get good reception :teddyr:
And a Hammer film, on network Television? My god, when was the last time that happened?
I, too, was a fan of the CBS late movie. That bumper from YouTube is SO 1970s! I remember lying on the living room floor in my parents house after mom and dad went to bed and watching the CBS late movie and other stuff on late-night TV. Cable and other modern technology is great, but I miss those old network "movie of the week" type shows. Mill Creek has a 50 Movie Pack full of made-for-TV movies starring actors like Bill Bixby, Bill Cosby, and others from that era. It's great cheese. But I digress . . .
I came of age as a crap film fan thanks to the CBS Late Movie. They showed Night Of The Lepus, The Bat People, Who Slew Auntie Roo? and lots of other gawd-awful movies.
Odd story: Thanks to sitting up and watching these movies, I was constantly tired. One night, I sat on the end of the coffee table to watch a scene before going on into the kitchen to get something to snack on. I woke up, stretched out on the coffee table, to my mother standing over me the next morning saying, "You're lucky I found you and not your dad. And you aren't sitting up late any more."
That lasted one night. But I never sat on the coffee table again.
Quote from: Javakoala on August 09, 2009, 05:04:26 PM
I came of age as a crap film fan thanks to the CBS Late Movie. They showed Night Of The Lepus, The Bat People, Who Slew Auntie Roo? and lots of other gawd-awful movies...
Oo yeh, like
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH HELEN, or
THE MAD ROOM or
THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S and Hammer Horror like
BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW!
I have seen a few of the Hammer Studio Dracula films. Even got one of them on DVD. They are always fun to watch. And like others here, I use to stay up late as a kid to see the CBS Late Movie. I remember seeing Night of the Lepus and several other films when it came on. Also remember in later years seeing reruns of The Nightstalker including the two hour pilot and reruns of The Avengers with Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in those skin tight catsuits she wore. Needless to say they made my early teen years more enjoyable. :lookingup:
The important thing to remember about "Taste the Blood of Dracula" is that you shouldn't. As was said, this is the film with the dabbler in black magic who gets some rich old men to buy the relic of Dracula blood, which he then imbibes. The old guys shacking up in a back room at the house of ill repute, which probably included spanking and other Victorian offenses was pretty funny. However, who in the world would ever think that drinking Dracula's blood was a good idea?
TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA Is A Great Movie But It Is Not As Good As Some Of The Other Films In The HAMMER HORROR DRACULA Series
This is one of my favourite "Dracula" sequels. I think the series was pretty good until "Scars of Dracula", which I think it's the next entry or so.
I had a blast with the film criticising the hipocrisy of the victorians. Considering they couldn't get away with much nudity at the time they did great, those early scenes are hysterical. And the black mass is terrific too, and scarier than you may expect in a Hammer film.
After that... I once read a review that complained that for all the urge to keep resurrecting Lee everytime, the writers didn't find much for him to do during the rest of the films. Avenging his minion is a rather petty occupation, but who am I to argue with the Prince of Darkness? At least that keeps the plot busy and the killings inventive. And the climax in the church is one of the best in the entire series.
Saw it last night and found it didn't offer much in the way of action. Or atmosphere for that matter.
Meh.
-Jimmybob
Of all the Lee and Hammer Draculas, this is my least favorite, and the only one that I have ever disliked.
I love them all!!
For cheesy music, for great "Hammer Horses" -- all those feather-foot guys who clomp along that same stretch of road for over 30 years, yeah? -- Man, these things are all so grand and classic - it's not worth talkin about better and best as if in a vacuum - there is nothing like a Hammer!!
peter johnson/denny intoxicated
I just re-watched this again. It never gets old for me. I love this movie.
The scene when Ralph Bates turns into Christopher lee- and the screen cracks when his eyes turn red- fantastic.
I was lucky. When my Dad and Mary Jo bought the NEW TV (a big cousnal model with a AM/FM radio and a record player and speakers attached! It was a monster!) they gave me the old floor motel RCA. It was color too! It set next to my model shelf. :smile:
I NEVER stayed up late on weekdays. If Dad heard that TV, he would have kicked it in and beat my ass. (I listened to my transistor radio with an earpiece. They would play old 1940's radio serials on this one channel.)
Loved watching these movies at the weekends. Used to sit up until after midnight watching Lee and Cushing battle it out, be it as Dracula and Van Helsing or Frankenstein and his monster I could never get enough of them.
Just a little fun fact for ya here.
Christopher Lee came to hate the dracula movies after the first few and did not want to do them. Nonetheless for the sake of the working people at Hammer, the stage hands, electricians, costume makers, etc, he did several he considered to be utter trash and inane just to help working people out.
The same is true of his fu manchu movies, he didn't like any after the first but did them to help the working people at hammer studios make money.
It can truly be said his heart matched his height.
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on July 01, 2018, 04:31:47 AM
Just a little fun fact for ya here.
The same is true of his fu manchu movies, he didn't like any after the first but did them to help the working people at hammer studios make money.
It can truly be said his heart matched his height.
That may be said for his DRACULA films, but not the Fu Manchu movies. None of them were made by Hammer films.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 01, 2018, 07:34:15 AM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on July 01, 2018, 04:31:47 AM
Just a little fun fact for ya here.
The same is true of his fu manchu movies, he didn't like any after the first but did them to help the working people at hammer studios make money.
It can truly be said his heart matched his height.
That may be said for his DRACULA films, but not the Fu Manchu movies. None of them were made by Hammer films.
He did do them mostly to help the film crews regardless of the company they worked for,.
... and and and he HATED MARGARET THATCHER!! :tongueout:
I watched TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA not too long ago, maybe this year, on TCM. Definitely a lower Hammer DRACULA movie. I love CHRISTOPHER LEE (in anything) but every single one of those Hammer Horrors were... dumb. I do like 'em.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on July 06, 2018, 12:35:40 AM
... and and and he HATED MARGARET THATCHER!! :tongueout:
Really? Damn, he was more likeable than I ever knew...
:lookingup: Like trout rising to bait.
More than his wonderful movies- his service in WW2 is amazing!
His part in WW2 reads like James Bond. It's amazing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lee
Quote from: Allhallowsday on July 06, 2018, 04:39:36 PM
:lookingup: Like trout rising to bait.
Maybe the oompa loompas should sing to you about how trolling is a bad habit.
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on July 07, 2018, 10:01:26 AM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on July 06, 2018, 04:39:36 PM
:lookingup: Like trout rising to bait.
Maybe the oompa loompas should sing to you about how trolling is a bad habit.
Who is trolling? You. I'm not biting.
The funny thing here is that on Facebook there's a page I follow that had a funny challenge: Take a movie title and replace one word with the word "xxxhole". Well, I made a reply that read "Taste the xxxhole of Dracula. "
Then this thread pops us.... :bouncegiggle:
The thing I like about TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA is the whole 'hedonism' theme . 3 stuffy pricks get there due for f**king around with Dracula.
This- and SCARS OF DRACULA (1970) and HORROR OF DRACULA (1958) are my favorite Lee Dracula films.
This film had some of the best British character actors of that period: Peter Sallis, John Carson, Geoffrey Keen, Michael Ripper, Martin Jarvis, Isla Blair, Ralph Bates and Roy Kinnear. Linda Hayden's ample talents didnt hurt either. One of my favorite Hammer Draculas..