Hammer's Dracula coming back in UNcensored form!

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Apparently they've rediscovered the missing scenes from Hammer Horror's Dracula and are restoring them for a big screen re-release in October. 

https://theartsshelf.com/2026/05/26/hammer-films-dracula-1958-4k-restoration-lost-footage/


Chief points... 

Over 3 minutes of cut footage from the original 1958 release has been recovered from a Warner Bros. storage facility near LAX.

• The footage was only ever screened during Horror of Dracula's original Japanese theatrical run – never released in the UK, US, or on any home entertainment format in any territory

• Gore confirms the restored cut is primarily about Dracula's fate: "The world will get to see the bits they weren't seeing, which is mostly to do with how Dracula dies at the end. All the crucial points that were axed are now back in."

• Also restored: an extended scene of Dracula descending on a woman before biting her, cut for being too sexual. As Gore describes it, "It's so sexual and they had to trim that because it just looked like it was nothing to do with vampires."