Dracula: Prince of Darkness

[Scott]

Just view a pre-recorded tape of mine from AMC earlier this year. The film was DRACULA: Prince of Darkness starring Christipher Lee. The film was a very good vampire flick. I really like the dialogue about the in,s and out's of vampires by the monk. The scenes and sets were Hammer quality as well. Some good scenes and a trailer of sorts at the beginning that showed clips from the first Hammer vampire movie THE HORROR OF DRACULA. As a vampire film I give it **** out of ***** stars. Next I will be renting The SCARS OF DRACULA (has anyone seen this one?) starring Christipher Lee.

Also I'll be renting:

The Goul (starring karloff)
Scream and Scream Again (starring price)

[Steve.]

"Scars" is the 5th in Hammer's Dracula series. By this time the rot had set in and Lee was tiring of the role. It's still watchable, but nowhere near as good as the original or "Prince Of Darkness".

[Paul Westbrook]

The definitive DRACULA film, was Horror of Dracula, which was Lee's first outing as the Vampire King. Once you over-do a formula, it saturates, and becomes repetative, and redundant. The first Lee, and Cushing opus was no doubt the best work the two lead actors have done, since CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN. This was by all means a classic horror movie.Steve. wrote:
>
> "Scars" is the 5th in Hammer's Dracula series. By this
> time the rot had set in and Lee was tiring of the role. It's
> still watchable, but nowhere near as good as the original or
> "Prince Of Darkness".

[peter johnson]

Yeah, you gotta agree -- but still, there's just something about seeing ol' Chris in that cape that can make one forgive a whole lotta "rot"--
Andrew Kier makes a good priest/monk -- catch him as Quatermass in 5 Million Years to Earth.

[Steve.]

You're right, Peter - Lee is THE movie Count - but the series got worse with every film. Mr. Kier was excellent as the monk, and as you say in (UK title) Quatermass And The Pit.
 Gerry's scifilm.org has excellent reviews of all the "Quatermass" movies.

[Raffles]

I recently saw something like "Dracula's great love" that was f**king awesome.  I'll check the title tomorrow. Not Hammer however. I was not impressed by the Ghoul.