What does Dracula's blood taste like?
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German title | What does Dracula's blood taste like? | ||
Original title | Taste the Blood of Dracula | ||
Country of production | United Kingdom | ||
original language | English | ||
Publishing year | 1970 | ||
length | 91 minutes | ||
Age rating | FSK 16 | ||
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Director | Peter Sasdy | ||
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Anthony Hinds (as John Elder) |
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production | Aida Young | ||
music |
James Bernard Philiph Martel |
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camera | Arthur Grant | ||
cut | Chris Barnes | ||
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What does Dracula's blood taste like? (That's the correct German title; the shortened alternative title "Das Blut von Dracula" was only introduced in 1985 on the occasion of the German VHS release) is a horror film by the British Hammer Studios from 1970. Directed by Peter Sasdy and the title role was by Christopher Embodies Lee . The film is the fourth part of the Dracula series from Hammer. The film opened in German cinemas on July 31, 1970.
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Three aging voluptuous people, who appear to the outside world as good, honest men, are looking for the ultimate kick. So they team up with young Lord Courtley, who is said to be in league with Satan . The four want to bring Dracula back to life in a desecrated chapel with utensils from the possession of Count Dracula and his blood. At the ceremony, however, the three honest men are scared and kill Lord Courtley.
The incantation was nevertheless successful, and Count Dracula rises from the dead. He then wants to get revenge on the murderers of his deceased disciple Courtley. So the count makes the grown children of the three murderers submissive, who are then supposed to kill their fathers. However, one of the three men knows about vampirism and can initiate the young Paul before he too dies.
Now Paul tries to free his bride Alice from the clutches of the count. He rededicated the old chapel and was able to push Dracula back with a crucifix. When the deluded Alice rushes to the Count's aid and throws away the cross, the vampire prince seems to have an advantage again and tries to kill Paul with stone bullets and wooden beams from a balustrade above under the dome. Suddenly, however, the count cries out in agony and sees the ruined chapel in its old splendor. He stumbles and falls on the altar, where he crumbles to ashes, "redeemed from God's hand".
Reviews
- Cinema : "Lee's fourth appearance as a bloodsucker also lives from the charm of the films from the British Hammer Studios."
Soundtrack
- James Bernard: Taste the Blood of Dracula. Suite . On: Music From the Hammer Films . Silva Screen Records, London 1989, Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Neil Richardson
Sequels
- Dracula: Nights of Horror (1970)
- Dracula Chases Mini Girls (1972)
- Dracula Needs Fresh Blood (1973)
- The Seven Golden Vampires (1974)
In the last film in the Dracula series, Christopher Lee was no longer ready to take on the role of Count, so Hammer hired actor John Forbes-Robertson for the part.
Others
- How does the blood of Dracula taste begin with Dracula's death scene from the previous film Dracula's Return (1968).
- How does the blood of Dracula taste is one of the last hammer films . Towards the end of the 1960s, interest in such horror films gradually began to wane, and so one noticed more and more of the productions that the era of Hammer Studios was slowly coming to an end.
- Originally the horror star Vincent Price was supposed to play one of the three English "gentlemen", but his contract was canceled after the budget of the film had been cut and the studio could no longer afford the fee.
- In addition to the actor Christopher Lee, known from (among other things) many other hammer films, the “hammer icon” Linda Hayden also plays in this film .
Web links
- What does Dracula's blood taste like? in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- What does Dracula's blood taste like? atRotten Tomatoes(English)