Poll
Question:
Whats your favorite Lee Dracula movie?
Option 1: HORROR OF DRACULA (1958)
votes: 1
Option 2: DRACULA,PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1966)
votes: 1
Option 3: DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE (1968)
votes: 3
Option 4: COUNT DRACULA (1970)
votes: 0
Option 5: TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA (1970)
votes: 1
Option 6: SCARS OF DRACULA (1970)
votes: 0
Option 7: DRACULA AD 1972 (1972)
votes: 2
Option 8: the SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA (1973)
votes: 0
Option 9: DRACULA, FATHER AND SON (1976)
votes: 0
So, what's yer favorite Lee Dracula movie? Mine is TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA (1970).
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The first one. They're all at best a bit implausible.
love me some AD 1972
I know it's crap, but still...
Quote from: zombie no.one on July 10, 2019, 03:09:40 PM
love me some AD 1972
I know it's crap, but still...
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Dracula has risen from the grave.
Quote from: zombie no.one on July 10, 2019, 03:09:40 PM
love me some AD 1972
I know it's crap, but still...
And there was me thinking I'd be the only one to vote for that one.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on July 10, 2019, 03:01:37 PM
The first one. They're all at best a bit implausible.
Of course. They're Dracula movies! :drink:
I almost picked HORROR OF DRACULA, but nostalgia took over.
As far as AD 1972, of the Hammer series, only the SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA is worse, IMHO.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 10, 2019, 03:50:29 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on July 10, 2019, 03:01:37 PM
The first one. They're all at best a bit implausible.
Of course. They're Dracula movies! :drink:
I almost picked HORROR OF DRACULA, but nostalgia took over.
As far as AD 1972, of the Hammer series, only the SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA is worse, IMHO.
Couldn't agree more; at a glance
DRACULA AD 1972 looks groovy. It's boring.
The first film has some mighty BIG plot holes, and a couple of cheats.
BUT it is
CHRISTOPHER LEE as Dracula!!!
Quote from: Alex on July 10, 2019, 03:44:50 PM
Quote from: zombie no.one on July 10, 2019, 03:09:40 PM
love me some AD 1972
I know it's crap, but still...
And there was me thinking I'd be the only one to vote for that one.
not on this board :)
I like how it's currently winning...
i'm with sven on this, i LOVED the scene where he gets impaled on the cross !
Quote from: chefzombie on July 10, 2019, 08:05:53 PM
i'm with sven on this, i LOVED the scene where he gets impaled on the cross !
Didn't he also get struck by lightning for good measure? I seem to remember that... :question:
yupper! GREAT scene!
I have to vote for Dracula Has Risen from the Grave. ... because.. it lives up to the title.
So far DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE is in the lead.
It's a good movie! :thumbup:
I dunno. I enjoy watching Lee do his monotone Dracula in all his pre- AD 72 stuff. Do't get me wrong. But the mod hippie s**t got on my nerves fast, and SATANIC was just James Bond nonsense. Which is why I enjoy SCARS OF DRACULA (1970). Because he actually TALKS.
But TASTE THE BLOOD is so perverse...and it has the scene where Ralph Bates turns into Lee, with the glowing red eyes, and the screen doing an animated break up-wow.
I never seen Franco's version. I reckon I'll have to. :bluesad:
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I haven't seen any of the Hammer movies. I know, I deserve to die.
To be honest, I never actually cared for the character of Dracula; vampires in general seem boring to me. But, I am planning in watching these movies some day because they have Christopher Lee, a man I always admired and find extremely interesting.
I could feel nothing but respect for a guy who kept playing power metal at the age of 93. He was the only person in the whole Lord of the Rings crew that actually met Tolkien FFS! And singed with Rhapsody, my favorite band of all time! He was a secret agent! A secret agent!
What a guy.
Quote from: Gabriel Knight on July 11, 2019, 05:59:17 AM
I haven't seen any of the Hammer movies. I know, I deserve to die.
To be honest, I never actually cared for the character of Dracula; vampires in general seem boring to me. But, I am planning in watching these movies some day because they have Christopher Lee, a man I always admired and find extremely interesting.
I could feel nothing but respect for a guy who kept playing power metal at the age of 93. He was the only person in the whole Lord of the Rings crew that actually met Tolkien FFS! And singed with Rhapsody, my favorite band of all time! He was a secret agent! A secret agent!
What a guy.
Watch them. Wonderful films. Try some of his other pre-LORD OF THE RINGS stuff too, while your at it.
Quote from: Gabriel Knight on July 11, 2019, 05:59:17 AM
I haven't seen any of the Hammer movies. I know, I deserve to die.
To be honest, I never actually cared for the character of Dracula; vampires in general seem boring to me. But, I am planning in watching these movies some day because they have Christopher Lee, a man I always admired and find extremely interesting.
I could feel nothing but respect for a guy who kept playing power metal at the age of 93. He was the only person in the whole Lord of the Rings crew that actually met Tolkien FFS! And singed with Rhapsody, my favorite band of all time! He was a secret agent! A secret agent!
What a guy.
If you haven't seen a Hammer movie I would say that IMIO the best hammer movie was "quatermass and the pit" from 1967.
i dunno about that one i haven't seen it, i also dunno what my favorite Lee Dracula film is, i've seen them all but one Dracula A.D. 1972. i dunno what the best one is but the worst one for me is The Vampire Lovers WOW is that one bad.
BTW it's not a Dracula film and not a hammer film, but for a pretty good Christopher Lee move try "horror express".
There are some nifty facts abniut this movie you should know.
It was peter cushing's first movie after his wife died. He was very despondent over her death and his friend Christopher Lee convinced him to do the movie as a way of getting out of his despair.
While it looks like a hammer movie it's actually not.
The movie was based on the SF novella "who goes there? " by John W. Campbell, the same story "the thing" movies we're based on. It was the second movie based on the story, the first being Howard hawkes' version of the thing.
The movie began when a screenwriter bought a movie prop at an auction, it was the model train used in the movie "Nicholas and Alexandra". He was so impressed by the movie and the model he bought it at auction and wrote two Movies featuring trains based on the model. The second film was Pancho Villa. Both movies used the same train interior sets. To make his movie seem more impressive he claimed the model was built for them, later he admitted the truth.
The movie was filmed without sound, all voices and effects we're dubbed in later.
Not a big success a first the movie lapsed into public Domains and got showed on a lot of TV, where it earned a cult following.
The move was later remastered and cleaned up to a very high quality and is available freely.
It features a haunting, eerie tune in its theme music that is used frequent thru the movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOE5JcUd1RQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOE5JcUd1RQ)
Quote from: pennywise37 on July 13, 2019, 02:29:13 PM
i dunno about that one i haven't seen it, i also dunno what my favorite Lee Dracula film is, i've seen them all but one Dracula A.D. 1972. i dunno what the best one is but the worst one for me is The Vampire Lovers WOW is that one bad.
the VAMPIRE LOVERS (1970) is actually my favorite!
really? i borrowed the VHS from a friend who has since passed away actually, and it was the worst at that time Hammer film i had ever seen, i dunno if i'd consider it the worst of them all to be fair cause i haven't seen all the hammer films. but if you love it i'm glad you do i just watched it for 2 reasons 1. Hammer and 2 Peter Cushing has a bit part in it.
Quote from: pennywise37 on July 14, 2019, 12:30:07 AM
really? i borrowed the VHS from a friend who has since passed away actually, and it was the worst at that time Hammer film i had ever seen, i dunno if i'd consider it the worst of them all to be fair cause i haven't seen all the hammer films. but if you love it i'm glad you do i just watched it for 2 reasons 1. Hammer and 2 Peter Cushing has a bit part in it.
And it had Ingrid Pitt! :thumbup:
And lesbian vampires! :drink:
yes it does i'm not complaining about that, but i don't judge a film weather it's got nudity or not , for example Monster Ball that (2001) film with Halle Berry is really awful film but her nude scene was the only good thing about it.
least i think so. a favorite of mine is the last one they did in the 70's "To The Devil A Daughter and oldie from (1976) funny how the film is great than you get to Lee's Death Scene and it's simply awful of what they came up with, wasn't it Prince of Darkness the i believe 3rd Dracula film where they were going to kill him one way but that film had already done it. even Lee later said the ending was a letdown.
Quote from: pennywise37 on July 14, 2019, 04:16:59 AM
yes it does i'm not complaining about that, but i don't judge a film weather it's got nudity or not
It's not about nudity- It's about Ingrid Pitt- who is fantastic. She's scary, but you feel sorry for her too.
Plus she's a lesbian vampire.
To be serious, I found the VAMPIRE LOVERS was a weird erotic fairy tale movie. I enjoyed it very much.
oh i'm not cracking on you enjoying it at all my friend, i'm glad you did and she was the only really good thing about it well that and Peter Cushing in a nothing role if i can recall. i believe it's the 1st film hammer ever put Nudity in. i think it was also the 1st lesbian vampire film as well and it's got a huge cult following if i'm not mistaken. now if you want to see an actor who's done a lot of movies look up Michael Ripper i mean wow did he do a lot of movies.
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Quote from: pennywise37 on July 14, 2019, 04:16:59 AM
yes it does i'm not complaining about that, but i don't judge a film weather it's got nudity or not
It's not about nudity- It's about Ingrid Pitt- who is fantastic. She's scary, but you feel sorry for her too.
Plus she's a lesbian vampire.
To be serious, I found the VAMPIRE LOVERS was a weird erotic fairy tale movie. I enjoyed it very much.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and assume you liked "life force" too.
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on July 14, 2019, 01:06:41 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 14, 2019, 04:55:03 AM
Quote from: pennywise37 on July 14, 2019, 04:16:59 AM
yes it does i'm not complaining about that, but i don't judge a film weather it's got nudity or not
It's not about nudity- It's about Ingrid Pitt- who is fantastic. She's scary, but you feel sorry for her too.
Plus she's a lesbian vampire.
To be serious, I found the VAMPIRE LOVERS was a weird erotic fairy tale movie. I enjoyed it very much.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and assume you liked "life force" too.
No, I did not.
The VAMPIRE LOVERS was also not the first lesbian vampire movie either. I reckon BLOOD AND ROSES (1960) was. Both films were based on Le Fanu's 1872 story 'Carmilla'. If ya wanna be picky about it, it can be arrgued that DRACULA'S DAUGHTER (1936) was the first lesbian vampire movie...but that's subjective.
..............I've actually never seen one
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 14, 2019, 05:57:54 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on July 14, 2019, 01:06:41 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 14, 2019, 04:55:03 AM
Quote from: pennywise37 on July 14, 2019, 04:16:59 AM
yes it does i'm not complaining about that, but i don't judge a film weather it's got nudity or not
It's not about nudity- It's about Ingrid Pitt- who is fantastic. She's scary, but you feel sorry for her too.
Plus she's a lesbian vampire.
To be serious, I found the VAMPIRE LOVERS was a weird erotic fairy tale movie. I enjoyed it very much.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and assume you liked "life force" too.
No, I did not.
The VAMPIRE LOVERS was also not the first lesbian vampire movie either. I reckon BLOOD AND ROSES (1960) was. Both films were based on Le Fanu's 1872 story 'Carmilla'. If ya wanna be picky about it, it can be arrgued that DRACULA'S DAUGHTER (1936) was the first lesbian vampire movie...but that's subjective.
I dunno, drac's daughter didn't seem sexually interested in women, she just saw them as a food source. I mean is a vampire even capable of sexual activity?
some might say that when drinking blood is considered sexual. i dunno how many of you read Anne Rice if you like her or hate her. i love her work not all of it but her Vampire stuff i love. in Queen of The Damned though it's really not that great of a book that was a nothing movie too. anyways in the book sex to her vampires is drinking each others blood it's not the normal way we would do it but it's their sex and so there's scenes in the book with the queen drinking Lestat's blood in various parts of the book.
the entire book isn't just them drinking each other's blood either. but in the book as in the film The Queen is clearly attracted to Lestat and it's if i recall his system or something is immune to her blood or something. cause those who drank from her if she was killed they died to but not Lestat he was different i haven't read the book hell in years i think i read i when i was in my 20's i'm 40 now so that's how long it's been.
when you have a sub par movie based on a sub par book it's not going to be as good as the First novel. Queen is actually the 3rd in the series and i haven't gotten around to read the 4th book yet i dunno why i just haven't.
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on July 14, 2019, 07:12:14 PM
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I dunno, drac's daughter didn't seem sexually interested in women, she just saw them as a food source. I mean is a vampire even capable of sexual activity?
No, according to
ANNE RICE.
However, the vampire's kiss has been compared with all kinds of wasting diseases, and sexuality has long been an aspect of vampire lore... like the incubus and the succubus. Sex = death is an old trope.
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I dunno, drac's daughter didn't seem sexually interested in women, she just saw them as a food source. I mean is a vampire even capable of sexual activity?
No, according to ANNE RICE.
However, the vampire's kiss has been compared with all kinds of wasting diseases, and sexuality has long been an aspect of vampire lore... like the incubus and the succubus. Sex = death is an old trope.
The French refer to the orgasms as "the little death".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_petite_mort
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I dunno, drac's daughter didn't seem sexually interested in women, she just saw them as a food source. I mean is a vampire even capable of sexual activity?
No, according to ANNE RICE.
However, the vampire's kiss has been compared with all kinds of wasting diseases, and sexuality has long been an aspect of vampire lore... like the incubus and the succubus. Sex = death is an old trope.
Not according to GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE, where a vampire has sex with a woman in an open grave! :wink:
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I dunno, drac's daughter didn't seem sexually interested in women, she just saw them as a food source. I mean is a vampire even capable of sexual activity?
No, according to ANNE RICE.
However, the vampire's kiss has been compared with all kinds of wasting diseases, and sexuality has long been an aspect of vampire lore... like the incubus and the succubus. Sex = death is an old trope.
Ooohhh... VAMPIRE'S KISS, now that's a hilarious and underrated movie right there. For some reason people think it's an "unintentional" comedy just because it has Nicholas Cage, when the genre of the movie clearly is dark comedy.
well Dracula's daughter really honestly isn't a very good movie, i mean it's not awful it's okay but it's not one of the best Dracula films ever made either but nor is it the worst either. as for Anne Rice yes Her Vampires like you said and i like the way she has that in her version of being a vampire. it's been than having glitter in the sunlight ya know?
i never minded the different ways to define what a vampire is when it comes to tv shows or movies. it just depends on how it's written that's all. like Buffy and the dust i love that Effect even though it was created to save money on having to spend extra money on the fx and it was cheap to do.
i never could get all the way through Vampire's Kiss and it's because mainly of Nick Cage who is really painfully awful in that film from what i've seen of it. not everything he was good in when it comes to his early stuff. thankfully he became a better actor but when it comes to his early stuff a lot of it i cringe at and it's not always because the movie itself is bad it's just his performance in it. like Peggy Sue Got married is an okay film and he plays it for laughs that doesn't bother me as it is a black comedy of sorts.
but he's awful in that film it like he's even said is completely out of place compared to the rest of the cast.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 15, 2019, 12:00:30 AM
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I dunno, drac's daughter didn't seem sexually interested in women, she just saw them as a food source. I mean is a vampire even capable of sexual activity?
No, according to ANNE RICE.
However, the vampire's kiss has been compared with all kinds of wasting diseases, and sexuality has long been an aspect of vampire lore... like the incubus and the succubus. Sex = death is an old trope.
Not according to GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE, where a vampire has sex with a woman in an open grave! :wink:
One of my favorite
TRASHY BAD (as in
bad for you) movies. A craptastic classic! Emphasis on sick.
Are you reading my English or Thetan? There's no doubt he's DAED. DED DED DED. Sex = death.
Here 'tis:
http://youtu.be/tAMMyUc6AI8 (http://youtu.be/tAMMyUc6AI8)
Quote from: pennywise37 on July 15, 2019, 06:09:26 PM
i never could get all the way through Vampire's Kiss and it's because mainly of Nick Cage who is really painfully awful in that film from what i've seen of it. not everything he was good in when it comes to his early stuff. thankfully he became a better actor but when it comes to his early stuff a lot of it i cringe at and it's not always because the movie itself is bad it's just his performance in it. like Peggy Sue Got married is an okay film and he plays it for laughs that doesn't bother me as it is a black comedy of sorts.
but he's awful in that film it like he's even said is completely out of place compared to the rest of the cast.
One of Cages best movies! Next to BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS! :thumbup:
i never did get through that one either i thought it was awful but to each their own man
As far as Anne Rice goes. BLEH. Gothic romance junk for teenage girls who like to dress-up as vampires.
I'll take any Hammer film over Rice's junk any day.
Why would I want to watch Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt as vampires? Ugh! :buggedout:
No offense... :wink:
I just rewatched HORROR OF DRACULA-dam! Mebbe I'll change my vote...!
http://youtu.be/ssvgMHCa45s (http://youtu.be/ssvgMHCa45s)
that's fine her stuff is just different and i don't mind different takes on vampires and no i don't mean Twilight either. i enjoy her stuff cause it is different but i haven't read all of her books. her Mayfair witches books though i really love though in fact they were going to do a mini-series of The Witching Hour which is my favorite book of hers even ahead of Interview with a Vampire!
anyways i've seen plenty of takes of vampires and some were really good and others stunk. True Blood was a good take on it for example, the problem with Vampires these days is they now have far too many vampire films and i dunno if they are back being scary but for a long time Twilight really hurt vampires but what i really find funny and it's worth having those movies around when i read an interview with the guy who played Edward Cullen i did look up the name by the way, anyways when those movies were still coming out he said during i think promotion of one of them how much of a p***y Edward is and that just got me laughing because you don't normally hear that, now he's the next Batman and i went WTF?
Well drifting off into Anne rice books I kinda liked the first 3 vampire novels and I liked "blood and gold", the story of marius.
i've only read the 1st three books and i haven't gotten around to read the 4th because the cover to my paperback started to fall apart and when glued back on years ago i just never got around to reading it. blood and gold i can't remember if i even have that one, there's some i have on paperback i have some on hardback as well. what makes me still laugh is that after i forget which one she had swore never to write another one and than just do Religious books,
well she did 2 or 3 of those and than went back to the Vampire books. her books to me have never felt like they were written for women, though Cry to heaven i have on paperback about the guy who got his nuts cut off you know the singer how they do that, well i have that one on paperback and i tried to read it years ago and it was really bad at least i thought it was and i just never finished it.